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Interview’d

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So today was my interview with Google. Overall, I feel like I wasn’t nearly up to par. I had a couple of “Oh god, DUH” moments when the interviewer said something about my algorithm(s). I should also learn to start trusting my instincts… my first instinct on one of the problems (floor of sqrt) was right-ish but I tried to over-complicate it, which was actually a worse solution (same runtime, but with much more memory usage).
I also screwed up one of the problems which *should* have been straightforward to do.
Oh well.
I really wish I interviewed better. I know the stuff, really… meh.

Pittsburgh has been kinda crazy lately. According to the papers, there’s a highway that motorists have been stuck on since Wednesday evening due to the snow and road closures and everything. The T light rail system also shut down due to freezing rain on the power cables that make it go.
On the plus side, all the freezing rain around makes for some pretty damn nice pictures.

Also on the plus side, I’ve been photographing again. I spent most of last night in the darkroom and studio making images. Whee.

Housing for next year has more or less been taken care of, so that’s one thing down at least. Now I just wish I could get a job for the summer. Meh.

OMG workdeath has started. I now have 3 major projects that I’m working on concurrently, plus a photo presentation for Monday, plus an exam in graph theory on Monday. Grrr.
*goes off to do work*

Whee

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Finished the Internships expansion for Student Wars yesterday. The tenative card list for the final expansion, Loose Ends, is also posted. I hope to have those finished, and to have Student Wars v2 started, by the end of next semester. Whether that’ll happen or not is anyone’s guess.

Also, as a note to myself, I need to work on graphical cards for the STD TCG, and also to make more cards for the Cluster card game.

Last night was a good day in KoL. I managed to get to level 11 in 2 adventures (I just needed 2 clover adventures + stat script) and beat the sorceress with no problems (had over 150 HP left; her first form only dealt 15 damage the entire time). Then I power levelled to level 15 in about 110 adventures while simultaneously building my NPZR (keep in mind a lot of those adventures were spent at the shore getting the toaster), then farmed for clockwork keys for my remaining 160 adventures. Then I ascended as an AT and got to level 4. So yeah, it would have been a sub-1000 turn run if I hadn’t wanted to level to 15 to perm pulverize. With just the levelling, its around a 1000 turn run. The only thing that made the turncount so high was my farming.

Yesterday Kat and I went to see Victor and Leon’s puppies. Oh god, they’re so cute!
Er… Oh god, there so cute! Their cuter than you’re puppies, and they have the affect of making you go “awwwww”. Your weak for puppies, you know you are.
That was painful >_<


In other news, my new memory card makes my camera say there are 1.2K available pictures… but the battery is on its way out (already :-\ although given how much I use it I guess it’s not a big deal) so I only get enough power for a couple hundred (on a full charge, although it’s stopped charging correctly, so that doesn’t mean anything).
Wheee!

Life is amazing and awesome and makes me happy.

Life

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It seems I’m writing in here more and more sporatically. This is probably a good thing.

Stuff’s been happening over the past few days. Alisa had a birthday party and there was much yummy Cheesecake Factory fooding. She’s uploaded piccars to Facebook, so you should go see them.

Went to develop the 6 rolls I shot for my color photo final, and many of them came out awesomely. Spent about 3.5 hours scanning negatives today. Ended up with around 58 total images, and the requirement for the final was only 10-15 images, so I think I’m set.

There was the most beautifully awesome sunset the other day, and the only camera I had with me was my film… but meh, here’s the picture.

There’s the awesomeness that is Elise (of whom you cannot take a bad picture)

and Todd-in-a-window

and nwf-at-work

Whee
…
I still haven’t really started graphics.
This is probably a very bad thing, given it’s due in 4 days.
…
*sigh*

Last week. Let’s hope I don’t screw this up.

Edit: No, I didn’t photoshop any of those images except to remove dust and scratches. All colors are (more or less) as they were seen.