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T(i/hy)me Cube?

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I’m sure everyone reading this has read (or at least heard of) Time Cube.
Well, this site (Thyme Cube) popped up today. I know absolutely nothing about it. Nothing at all. Especially not about where it came from.
*whistles*

Also, happy vertically-challenged-labor-force-and-horizontally-challenged-overmind-relaxation day to everyone.

Also, WTF AHHH the season finale for Supernatural season 1 is a cliffhanger (kinda)! I stil think they could have done a better job with it though. They should have cut to black and then done credits instead of cutting to black and then coming back for about 20 seconds to pan over the primary cast, unconcious, before going to credits. I think that takes a lot away from the impact (no pun intended) of the scene. I dunno. I must say though, nothing else in the entire season was able to spook me as much as that scene…. talk talk yadda yadda BAM. I think I literally jumped. Awesome awesome… I love it when TV can do that.

The world of KoL is going decently, I guess. Doing a SC run to get pulverize, which should be awesomely awesome. Whee. I’ll probably follow with a HCT AT run to get phat loot. I don’t know.

I should go photographing again. I’m starting to feel camera withdrawl and it always makes me unhappy.

Break foo

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So I bought season one of the TV show Supernatural, and I’ve more or less been watching it all day. It’s actually a really good show.

Um… so yeah. The past few days have been lots of fun foo with friends (pizza, random outings, etc). I really should try and be more productive this break though. I dunno.

Also, since I probably won’t get to make an entry tomorrow, Happy Medically-Mysterious-Birth-and-Fat-Man-Glorification Day to everyone.

Edit: 6:30 AM… it was probably a *bad* idea to watch ~15 hours straight of Supernatural.
Blah.
*tries to go sleep*

Grade anti-angst

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Avrim (my algo professor) and Sri (my algo TA) are officially the best people ever.

You got 145/200 on the final. This brought your overall average to
84.55. This was a bit below the A/B cutoff of 86, but your TA reported you had good class participation so this nudged you above the line and you received an A in the course.

Happy holidays,
Avrim Blum

So um yeah… I guess everyone else must’ve bombed the analysis final as well, because I ended up with a B in that class (higher than expected, given that I couldn’t do 3/8 of the final and bsed most of the remainder). And apparently my grade on graphics lab 3 (the ray tracer) and the final were high enough that it pulled up my mediocre homework grades (and lab 2 and 4 grades). Everything else was as expected (my two photo classes and numerical methods were all A’s).

So I did far better than I was expecting. Yay.
It also means my overall QPA went up by 0.01 points, which is awesome.

I have an intense craving for chocolate chip chocolate muffins and (plain) croissants right now. Maybe I should run to Safeway and get some… or I could wait until my parents get home (dad’s at chemo right now) and go to Costco… although that’s perhaps a few too many croissants/muffins.

No photos because I haven’t been taking any lately. I really should. Meh.

*bored*

Home

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Um…
So I’ve been home for a couple of days

Nothing particularly interesting to report to say, but I figured I’d make a post so people know I’m not dead.

Wheeee?

Finals #3 and #4 done

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My last two finals went much better than my first two. Algo this morning actually wasn’t all that terrible. I especially liked the FFT problem, and I’m fairly confident about most of my answers. Numerical methods was a bit more difficult than I was expecting (no proofs this time though!), but still quite doable. I feel like an idiot for adding 2 -1 + 1 and getting 0, and having to ask her if there was a problem with the question because my answer wasn’t making sense and I couldn’t find anything wrong with my work.

I like this picture… props to John for choosing a good location.

Relatedly, my final crit for color photo on Wednesday went really well. I’m really proud of some of the images… I’ll post the best of it in art eventually.

Yesterday in KoL, I beat the sorceress and farmed the hell out of the Crimbo areas. It’s amazing how I was able to start the day with 45 adventures, then free the king and get access to my food and drink again, and earn another ~200 adventures off of chow meins and crimbo booze. Yar.

I suppose I should finish packing and sleep soon.