Leaves fall silently,
Don't break, don't bother, just ghosts,
Mem'ries of summer.
So I have to say that I really like the new Blogger text editor. It's way cuter than the old one.
Other than that, I guess it looks like I haven't put anything on here for a while, so here's some things that I've been thinking about/doing in no particular order:
- Alex came to visit me over the weekend. We went caving (Sullivan's Cave, for those of you in the know), I gave him a tour, he met some of my friends, and we went out one of the nights with "the crew" (hi, Thabang, Brett, and Matt). We saw Comedy Caravan at Bear's again, and this time it was improv. A couple of the dudes came over to chat our table up after the show, and Alex had the somewhat dubious pleasure of experiencing drunk guys hitting on me. I don't recall if I mentioned, but I got asked for my phone number in a very sly (and somewhat amusing) way last weekend at the same bar.
- I read an article recently about "anonymizing" healthcare records. I can't, unfortunately, find a link to a full paper, but the gist of the article was that 87% of Americans can be found uniquely by using just zipcode, birthdate, and gender. Maybe you're just as unique as you think you are.
- I am performing in a play on Friday! It's about a family of three: a woodcutter father, an imaginative mother, and a pushed-around daughter. I am the third. The script is here, and for those of you who do not read Spanish (and don't like Google translator's version :) ), it's basically a story about the father coming home, saying, "Oh, wife, I thought about planting an olive tree today." The wife saying, "Man, this is going to be great! We can sell that shit!" Then they bring me in and argue about how much they are going to charge for the olive oil (when the olives are barely thought of and certainly won't be ready for many years), eventually getting so into it that they slap me around a little and our neighbour has to come over and point out how ridiculous we all are.
- There is a lot to writing an operating system. This OS class that I'm in is going to be pretty intense. Our assignment for this week was to look through the source code and answer a few questions about it, and it's a crapload of C.
- I'll be awesome at C by the end of term. My networks class will all be in C, too, so EXTRA PRACTISE.
- I'm still looking for an internship/short-term job for spring, for any of you out there in real-world-land who might happen to know recruiters. ;)
- I was recently informed that I am not too tall to be an astronaut. Also that Bill Stone, the guy who I was all excited about working for, is a total jerk.
- I forgot a lot of parkour over the summer, but Roy is whipping me back into shape. We'll see how that goes. :D
- My roommates are thinking about fostering a puppy! We can't adopt one, mainly because we have no idea what we would do with it after the school year ends, but fostering is totally doable, and our house would be so puppied and happy. ^____^
- There is going to be a live-action Akira movie? That should be interesting.
- I saw Ponyo (the new movie from the Miyazaki, the guy who did Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, etc.), and it was pretty trippy/awesome. Also recently, I saw Up, Coraline, and Jabberwocky. All of these are great. Up is by Pixar and is soooooo cute, and parts are really hilarious. Doug the dog is awesome. Coraline is really weird and disturbing, but it's by Tim Burton, and that guy's gold. Jabberwocky is by Terry Gilliam, and I don't think I need to elaborate on that.
- I'm planning my grad party, and it looks like it's going to be an excursion up to Chicago for New Year's. It seems dumb to have a grad party before I actually graduate (plus I'm going to be absurdly busy before that), and there's no way to cram it in between graduation and Christmas, and I have a lot of friends I want to see who are from far away, and I like Chicago, and I don't have plans for New Year's. So I think that's going to be it.
- Moebius strips are always more awesome. A friend shared a link to a moebius strip music box on Google Reader recently.
- Grad students don't always seem more dedicated to their degrees than undergrads. Being in some grad classes, I've been exposed to people who are really just in it for the paper. :-/ It's sort of disappointing, but I guess you never get away from some kinds of people in real life.
- I gotta decide what to study in grad school. I'm leaning towards some kind of engineering, maybe? I want to do something thoughtful but not entirely sedentary. Doing some kind of natural science would be fun, too. Really, I still want to just be Bill Stone, just not an asshole. Getting paid to be an adventurer still ranks highly on my list of priorities.
- Cooking is awesome. Not only am I treated to the dinner rotation creations of my roommates, but I've been hanging out with another friend the past couple of days, and we made anise (basically licorice-flavoured) ice cream root beer floats. Mmmmmmmmmm....
- Funny things are changing their legality status. Facebook's TOS was determined to violate Canada's privacy laws (didn't they just get in trouble for that earlier this year? Jeez, guys.), certain amounts of drugs are being legalised in Mexico (I believe the language is an amount appropriate for "personal and immediate use"), parts of California are raising taxes on their medical marijuana sales (a fairly sound economic idea if you look at the numbers), and I'm endlessly amused by international copyright laws, of course. While in Germany, it was like pulling teeth to find a fecking Youtube video that I could listen to music from that wasn't blocked due to copyright, and things like Pandora didn't work their, either. I've been reading a little bit about Canada's changing copyright laws for music distribution, and a bit about the DRM blocks that Apple had put on their iTunes tracks, but that stuff's just so silly.
- What's up with people accusing celebrities of hiding their genders? It's all the rage, of a sudden. Lady Gaga, that African runner, who next?
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