WE BEAT DUKE

It was amazing--the loudest, most intense game I've been to here at Tech, and that includes football. 67-65 against the number seven team in the country. Wow. My head was pounding when I got back and I had two throat lozengers this morning to bring my voice back to life, which was already suffering from this cold that I seem to just now be recovering from. Anyway, definitely getting season tickets next year. Speaking of next year, signed the lease today. University Terrace 1213 H. I'm not actually sure what our address technically is... 1213 H Progress Street maybe? Going to derek's for dinner tonight. A nice macaroni and cheese dinner sans chicken, as I can't eat meat today. Should be fun though. And then tomorrow a few of us are planning to go to this event being put on by the Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Club called "The Dark Side of Oz" in which The Wizard of Oz is watched while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. Here are some links. An interesting tidbit from that fourth one, a quote from Nick Mason (Pink Floyd's drummer): "It's absolute nonsense, it has nothing to do with "The Wizard Of Oz." It was all based on "The Sound Of Music." HAHA. Those Brits and their humour. Anyways, not much work this weekend. The next phase of my HCI project hasn't been assigned yet. The next OS project hasn't been assigned yet. I have two midterms - HCI and Calc on Monday and Tuesday. So I gotta study for those. And I've got to write a two page paper on the difference between threads and processes. Fun times. I guess if I got to it I could also work on the next OS project a bit, even though I don't know exactly what it is. I'm almost certain it will require a linked list so I started coding one yesterday, this time templated. I learned my lesson last year: Write it once, debug it once. Never again. I'm writing a linked list now and using it over and over throughout my career here. I think I need a queue too, which isn't much more than a special interface for my linked list, so I'll probably write that too. He was a little vague, but he said that the OS project is going to be a simulation of the process scheduler in an operating system, meaning it has to queue up processes somehow that are waiting/competing to use the CPU, allocate the CPU to each process for a given timeslice, and when a process requests a resource, allocate that resource when it becomes available. Its actually really interesting stuff. But I'm not going to be writing it in the traditional system software fashion (monolithic), as I value my time and sanity. Rather, I will write it completely object oriented, have probably twice as much code as I would have otherwise, and have a program that is much easier to write and maintain. And that is important. Because project 3 will build on project 2, and each is worth 15% of my grade. I got an 85 on the first project because I forgot to print "Command not found." when it wasn't. I guess I'm glad that's the only thing I forgot. Gosh, there is a lot of heat coming out of this heater next to me. I can SMELL it. And feel it. I wonder how much moisture comes up from there to water my cactus... I've had this cactus for over two years now. Katie gave it to me for Valentine's day two years ago. I think. Maybe it was three. But anyway, its still alive and about three times the size that it was when I got it. Maybe in the apartment I'll transplant it to a bigger pot. That could be nice. The apartment is going to be great next year. There's a specific clause in one of the things we signed saying "No beer kegs are permitted on the balconies/patios and no more than 10 people are allowed on a balcony at a time." Haha. Funny stuff. They know what they're up against in this town. Anyways, I think I'll do some reading now.