Author Archives: Alan V

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A can of apple-favored water that mklipper had yesterday. Whee.

Played (a lot) more ITG today with 8. Passed my sixth 10-rating song: D-Code. Also came close to an S+ on Land of the Rising Sun (about 0.3% off). Whee. Still need to work a lot on my accuracy.

Also played a lot of Stepmania today. Downloaded an ITG skin for it, so now it’s more fun and whee.

Um… yeah. Why is it so cold in the cluster? Meh. I’m freezing.
I also havn’t eaten yet today. It’s now 6:45. Hmm. I should probably eat something soon.

I’m seriously considering spending the night in the cluster again, but that’s probably a bad idea, given that I have work tomorrow at 7:30.

No one gave me hugs yesterday :(

I have been so horribly unproductive this entire summer (outside of work). I don’t even remember what my goals for this summer were. Meh.
I’m sooo lazzzyyyy…

Edit: Passed two more 10-rating songs: Hand of Time and Queen of Light (both with Bs).
Wheee.
That makes eight 10-rating songs passed (all with C+ or better).

Meh

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My day was good. Then it was complete crap. So um… yeah. I’m here in the cluster right now, and I’ll probably be spending the night here because I have a huge headache and don’t want to deal with people right now.

Helped Alisa pack some stuff today. She’s moving tomorrow! Wheee! Her new place is really, really nice (at a really good price too).

Went to the doctor today. The good news is it isn’t strep. I’m just supposed to drink lots of water and have cough drops and take advil as necessary. Wheee.
Stupid being sick and having a sore throat.

Um… yeah. Apparently I’ve also gained 9 pounds. That’ll probably make my mom happy. There, happy now? I’m 129 :-P
I guess not really surprising given that I’ve eaten around 1.75 pies in the past 2 days (along with a bunch of other yummy stuff).
Lunch today was chicken in sauce with rice, a large garden salad, a bagel with creme cheese, a box of cookies, and a slice of pie.

I think I eat too much.

You don’t get a picture because I’m in the cluster and, while I do have my hard drive and mouse with me, I’m too lazy/tired/headachy to photoshop anything for you.

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My throat hurts :(

Spending PlaidCa$h…

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Um yeah, so I’ve spent around $240 in the past 5 hours, but don’t worry, it wasn’t my money. I had around $470 in PlaidCa$h earlier today, so tonight I decided to splurge. Went to Joe Mamas, bought pies and goodies at Eat n’ Park, bought drinks at Starbucks, and went to Murray Avenue Grill (the most expensive place that took the money) for dinner. Had their Seared Ahi Tuna Steak (the third most expensive thing on their menu, after the beef steaks and ribs). Oh god… it was so yummy. Ahhhh. I definetly want to go back sometime.
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So this is what it’s like to be rich. Heh… I guess I’m glad then that I’m poor, because I’ve eaten wayyyy too much today.

Work today went well. Decided to ignore the inaccuracies of classification for now and start on extraction. Spent about 3 hours in the morning figuring out how the hell to parse points out of a word problem (i.e. “The candle was 5 inches long after having burned for 2 minutes. After 8 minutes, it was 3 inches long.” contains the points [5,2] and [3,8]). After that was figured out, extracting the equation for two-points problems was relatively straightforward. Extracting from standard then took me the afternoon (had to figure out how to extract an explicit slope i.e. “He drove 40 miles an hour and has already driven 20 miles” has the slope 40). So yeah, extraction for *most* of standard and for *most* of two-points now works. Yayyy!
Two down, 7 (harder ones) to go…

I think I’m getting sick. My throat hurts. That’s not good.
*drinks yummy Starbucks passion iced tea to soothe throat*
*eats fried tortilla chips to irritate throat*
*starts on my second blackberry pie*
Wheeee.

Carla is in the cubicle next to me at work. She is off this week on vacation.
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I had nothing to do with this. At all. Yeah.

Took some artistic shots today downtown, but I’m too lazy to photoshop them and foo, so you lose.

The current condition of the world (N. Korea, the Middle East, etc) should worry me more than it does… meh. I remain relatively blissfully unaware of stuff… all I know is they have missles and the area is exploding (respectively to the two).
Meh.
I’m glad I don’t watch TV or read news sites or newspapers.

Tiiimmmeee

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Where does the time go? It’s already 10:30. I should shower and sleep soon, especially since I think I’m coming down with something (sore throat, trouble breathing, cough… bleh).

Work today was kinda bleh. I feel so behind… I can’t work on formula extraction until I finish formula classification… and formula classification currently has a success rate of 74% for non-standard problems (99.2% if you include standard problems). I need to get that up above 80% before I’m comfortable going to extraction.
After that is working well enough, I need to tackle the issue of systems problems as well (for which equation extraction will be a horrible mess of painful death).
My mentor is so amazingly understanding…

I had another weird dream last night. I was in a video game, and there were a bunch of different quests I had to undertake to complete it and save my friends and family.
The only one I remember, unfortunately, was me noticing a bunch of gold and jewels (the game’s “collectable items”) under some crates, and trying to jump in such a way that I would slide in and touch it (picking it up; my character apparently is thinner while jumping or something). I finally consulted the hint system, which led me to a nearby computer station with a guy who introduced himself. He said that that terminal controlled the invisible radio waves in the air that could blow up the crates. I did so and collected the treasure.
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There was more stuff involving sliding down broken railings over pits of lava and jumping over electrified metal shard boxes, but I don’t really remember that part.

My first S (even if it was just an S-) from this weekend.
(The left is 8… he’s too good -_-)

The front of New House, stylized.