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Work, day 14

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Fwee
Old pic of Munin… but I like the way it turned out. His eyes (at least in the pic) were the same color as his shirt. Kinda crazy.

I guess that’s kinda hard to see at this resolution. Meh. Whatever. It looks really good full-size.
Maybe I should crop it closer… meh.

I kinda like the way the two pictures have totally different feels to them.
I think I’ve found stuff to print to use up my summer printing quota :D Yay for photoshopped pictars.

Vincent made a nice desktop pattern of me. Meh. With all the pictures of myself I’ve been posting lately, maybe I’m becoming narcisstic…
>_<

Work was productive today. Accuracy on some of the classifiers is still severely lacking (I think I got 40%/57% for recall/precision for one of the classifiers). Will play around with them more to improve that tomorrow. I think I just need more training examples.

Um… I’ve been incredibly hungry today. Are a big lunch (and part of Pooja’s). Had a sandwich and some cookies. Had a burger. Then went to Eat n’ Park with dlstern and Jordan and had another meal. And had a dish of sherbert. And I’m still hungry. Meh.
Food++

Plop

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Today was work. Work was incredibly boring. But work was okay.

Today was KGB meeting. No officers came. Meeting was okay.

Today was movie night with SoHo. Went with Tyler. Movie was okay.

Today was Pearl’s birthday. Interns threw a party. Party was okay.

Today was an eventful day. Despite all the interactions with people, I can’t help but feel a little bit lonely. Oh well, that’s okay.

Today I felt confident in myself. Been feeling this way all week… been believing in myself for the first time since I don’t remember when. Things’ll be okay.

Ploot

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Yeah so today was kinda a bad day…
It started out with me waking up from a series of dreams that left me feeling really lonely. Meh.
Hopped onto IM to see who was online… no one.
Went back to sleep.

Woke up again a couple hours later, checked IM. Everyone either was not online, was busy, or already had plans. Meh. Went off to the cluster in hopes of finding people. Sat there for a couple hours and no one showed up. Bored and lonely me.

Headed to the UC to play DDR. Discovered that the ITG machine was back and put some money in it.
…
And it didn’t work. Lost a couple dollars.

Headed back to my room to see if any other interns were up/interested in stuff. No one was, and there was still no one online, so I grabbed my camera and planned to head to squill.
Turned the camera on… hm… that’s odd… it says the memory card is empty.
*checks*
Memory card error… okay, let’s format then.
*format*
Memory card error… um…
*camera locks up*
Well shit.
*tries card on computer*
*computer locks up*
Well shit.

So yeah, my 1 GB memory card for my camera is dead. I need a new one… for now, I’m on the 256 MB one that really sucks (although I’m sure no one will be sad that I can now *only* take 130 pictures on the card instead of my usual 551).
*siiiigh*

So then I went to squill and read books at Barnes and Noble for a while. Got lonely, headed back, ran into Tyler and peoples. Sat in the cluster for a while.

So at this point, I’m incredibly bored and incredibly lonely because everyone’s busy and such. I head off to walk around campus (because the weather at the time wasn’t terrible)… and walk around for about 3 hours and feel even more lonely.

Meh. Eventually I went back to the cluster and arranged to meet Alisa and watch some DVDs with her and Tyler. Did so, and now I’m not lonely anymore. Amazing how spending time with people can immediately make me feel better.
Wheee.

Licence plate of a truck Vincent and I saw yesterday while driving. Wheee.

Life is good, even if I did have kinda a sucky day.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my?

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Didn’t do much today…
Got up and went to breakfast with the other intern peoples (yummy chai!)… then bought hair dye at RiteAid. Got an amazing deal too… normally $8 a bottle… they were having a buy-one-get-one-free sale… and the two boxes had $2 off coupons on them. Got two boxes of hair dye for $4. I think I win.

Then, as I was leaving RiteAid, I ran into Vincent driving along Forbes.

Joined her in stopping by her apartment and then going to Anthrocon, which was rather… interesting. Furries are kinda funny… seeing lots of furries together is also kinda funny. Wheee.
Then we waited in a hotel lobby for her to meet friends at Anthrocon while she introduced me to guro (apparently porn that involves lots of death/gore/dismemberment… very disturbing) and made me very sad.
Then she proceeded to drive across a bridge. Bad idea. Spent the next half hour driving around lost, trying to find our way back to downtown Pittsburgh.

Then dyed my hair. This looks much nicer now (before is on the left)

Yay playing with saturation! :D I actually really like the way this turned out. Wheee colors. Wheee weird lighting angles.

Then headed clusterward, played some Starcraft, and went halfpricing with peoples.
So um, yeah. I should sleep and be productive tomorrow.