Author Archives: Alan V

Game foo

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Hm… it is 4:30. I probably should have gone to bed 4 hours ago.
I’m hearing birds chirping outside. Perhaps that’s a sign that the sun will soon come up. Meh.

Today was tons of fun… slept, got up for lunch, slept some more, went to psychologist, went to Tims’, ate more, went back to Tims’. Whee.

Went to cluster to play Starcraft around 11:30. After a few quick games (including a massively horrible one of capture the flag, where people built insane amounts of cannons/colonies), I played Risk. When I left just now, I was winning… I controlled all of Asia, Australia, and Africa… I had eliminated two players, and Ivan and Julie controlled North America and South America, respectively. I really should sleep though.

Work is coming along on Student Wars: Hijinks. Hope people actually play it when I get it released… meh.

The weather today was horrible. Started raining before I got up, rained all day, just now stopped. The wind made it worse… had to hold my umbrella at strange angles to prevent wetness. Bleh.

Psychologist is weird… I mean, she’s nice and amazing, but I don’t really know what I was expecting out of it, and I’m not sure if I want to continue sessions or not. Oh well, I have until I get back in the summer to decide.

Something must be wrong with me… today, I had 2 full dinners and was still hungry. Ordered Chinese delivery (mmm shrimp and veggies), and then had a huge bowl of pasta (mmm cheese sauce). Then I stole a slice of mrwright’s pizza. Now I’m sitting here and I’m starving. Meh.

Bed. Tomorrow is studing for my last two finals, working on website, and working on Student Wars. Wootage.

Life is good, but I can’t help but feel like I’m missing something.
Oh well.

GAAH STORAGE

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CMU Storage is the stupidest thing ever. Only open for two hours… only open at select times… not nearly enough room in some of the places… no easy way to get boxes to the storage places…

Yeah so, last night Keith and I put our boxes in storage. My arms *still* hurt. Blah. I wanted to store in Donner. I got boxes there. Then it filled up. Keith and I had to move the boxes from there up to Hamerschlag. Suckage.

Had the most amazing Japanese food last night… a little on the expensive side (the most I’ve spent on a meal in forever), but it was worth it. Mmmmm. Soooooo good.

I’m so behind on everything I have to do… which right now means studying for 18100, studying for 80180, working on the Center for School Outreach website, and relaxing. Meh. Psychologist at 4.

This song is great. Yay for FFVII: Advent Children soundtrack!

Final #3 done

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The 312 final today actually wasn’t that bad. It was quite long, and the problems certainly made me think, but I’m fairly certain I came up with reasonable answers for all the problems, demonstrating that I actually knew the material. After all, that’s what really matters.

Got the grade for the final for 213. Did worse than I was expecting… 81%. Not terrible though, and I’ll still probably get my A, so I can’t really complain. Also got my final folio grade for photo. A on the folio, A- on the final assignment (self-defined project). I’m planning on scanning all the photos from each of my submitted assignments sometime this week, so you’ll probably see them soon. Probably going to start a new site section for those prints plus the various good photos I have.

Tonight was the Almost Midnight Breakfast. Lots of yummy food. Then was a cluster rave. OMG I love this camera.
While nice long exposures to get the blur of the raving were nice…

And ones with smaller apertures to let in less light and just get the glowsticks are better…

I much prefer this, which captures the scene as well as blurs the raving:


More rave pictars can be found at http://photos2.alanv.org. Please, leave comments on the pictures too. I love picture comments almost as much as I love journal comments. There’s a reason I went through the effort of writing a script for the photos instead of sticking them in a folder and turning on listing permissions… I like having comment capablity :-P

This song is bizarre. It’s a “Bring Me to Life” remix, done by a group called Pink Panther. Seems like something that would be good for raving though.

I’ve had way too much sugar lately. Between the free candy at CS finals and free cookies during finals week for CS majors and the free BBQs all around campus with burgers and tons of soda, I’ve probably had more sugar in the past 2 days than in the past 2 months combined. CS wants to kill its kids with sugar, I swear… XD

Oh yes, and I’m feeling better. Thank you to everyone who was worried about me and gave me huggles and generally made me feel loved. :D

Finals #1 and #2 done

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213 was yesterday. At first, looking through it, my thought was “OMFG I’m going to fail.” Then I actually started working through the problems, and you know what, they were all doable. The exam itself was nothing like any of the practice exams I looked over (which is probably why it scared me at first glance), but everything on there was reasonable and doable if you understood the material. I feel good about it.

Then today was combinatorics exam. I went into it feeling generally doomed. Then we got the exam. I looked over it. First problem… oh, it’s just combinatorical proofs of two identities. Easy. Second problem… one of the nice probabilistic method proofs Easy. Third problem… a bunch of true/false with justifications… relatively easy. Last problem… two of these five proofs… oh, one is just inclusion/exclusion, and one is just marriage theorem… easy!
I finished in about 50 minutes, double checked all my work twice (took about another 30), and came out feeling quite confident in my answers.

So yeah, my first two finals went quite well.

Tonight is the 312 final. That should be scary. Hopefully I’ll do okay on it though. I feel like I know the material relatively well, I just may have some trouble applying it.

Whee. After tonight, I should be stress-free until next Monday. Not too worried about 18100 exam, and now that my ‘A’s in 213 and 21301 have been relatively assured, I don’t need to really worry about 80180 either.

Meh x 3

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I’m feeling a little better, I guess. I’ll really feel better after the finals tomorrow, since they’ll be the worst of the 5 I have.

In case anyone’s curious, the past two days’ posts weren’t directed at anyone specific. I just felt kinda neglected and stressed in general and just kinda broke. Meh. Apologies.

I don’t even know why I’m stressing about finals so much… it’s not like they’re seriously going to affect my grades in any class unless I seriously bomb any of them. 213 is almost guaranteed to be an ‘A’, same with 312 (although I am seriously afraid of that final), same with photo (no final to worry about anyway), same with 18100. 21301 is weighted as such that I need a 33% on the final to get a ‘B’ or a 75% to get an ‘A’. 80180 is kinda meh… we have every possible question that could appear on the final. I need to stop worrying about grades anyway. Meh.

(Talking about the 213 final)
Keith: Someone set up us the bomb the final
Me: We get signal handler?

tmoss: trying to use a fictional work in a fact based paper is full of the crack
tmoss: you have to make EVERYTHING a metaphor
alanv: i boned your mom last night
tmoss: well, if you bone is media
tmoss: and my mom is the general public
tmoss: then i means that the media fucks the general public in the ass untill there is no fucking life left in them