Wow

I glanced down this page and noticed that 5 of the last 7 posts start with "So...". Perhaps I should come up with a new way of starting casual topics of conversation... because I believe I do this when speaking as well, if I want to just say something randomly it will be along the lines of, "So I was walking to...." or whatever. How about that.

An awesome idea

So I had a brilliant idea come to me today while sitting in my Operating Systems class. It was this amazing idea that would have been so cool to implement. So I pulled out my Palm Pilot and started typing this awesome idea in. So the plan was to be able to use an SSH program to backlink from an open server to the client that resides behind a NAT-ed router, so you can talk to it from any machine that can talk to the open server. I had these plans for how I could code it to. Somthing I could do with what I know right now.

Then I started researching, and found it it was already done around 1999-2001-ish. It's called "Reverse SSH Tunneling" And boy is it slick...

Oh well, hopefully I get another great idea in my life.

Go

So I met with Wally III to play a game of Go on Tuesday. The plan was that I'd grab lunch in the Cougar Eat after my classes (so around 2) with my Go Board, while wearing my Board shirt. He would come find me and provide chocolate chip cookies. And he did, as well as Yellow, who watched. Tangerine was apparently invited as well, but didn't show. I only had about 30 minutes before I had to leave, so we played one game with a quarter of the board. Wally III won. We plan to have a rematch sometime. Hopefully after I've had a chance to play some more, since I hadn't played for about 6 months, and that was when I learned how to play. It was a fun game though.

Slow on the draw

So I was going through my mail today, and I get an envelope from New Jersey with no information on it. I find this intriguing so I open it up, and out slides: "ETS GRE PowerPrep Software - Test Prep for GRE General Test" provided free with test registration. Thanks ETS, I took the test what like 3 months ago. And registered another month before that. So 4 months later they get the free prep software sent out. How far ahead of time do they think people register for these things?


Also, Random quote from Physics 222:

Dr. D: So they fold up lead bags, cool them down until they superconduct, then unfold them so that at the end there is an extremely weak magnetic field left inside.
Student: How exactly do you make a lead bag?
Dr. D: Well... out of lead.

Apartment Dynamics

I've just witnessed an interesting development in the apartment dynamics. See there's this roommate, E that I don't particularly get along with, and who's a little anal about things, like my whistling in my room with my door closed while he's trying to sleep - in his room - 20 feet down the hall - with his door closed. So anyways he gets out of bed to tell people to stop doing whatever it is that's bothering him at the moment. He just came into the living room to tell the people watching tv to be quiet, but when he saw it was roommate J, he didn't say anything and instead just turned around and went back to bed. So apparently E is afraid of J, interesting...

Final Cut was awesome, Lexi and I went to Program A on Thursday night. Our favorite was Der Ostwind.

Dancesport was also quite amazing. We went and saw my roommate D perform for cha-cha, quickstep, and pasa doble. He did quite well, and reached semi-finals for pasa doble, and the finals for quickstep.

On Saturday I made an Egyptian Chocolate Cake, modified to contain hot chocolate and nutmeg instead of coffee, it's pretty good.

Lexi Khan is awesome

So, I was sitting in my kitchen eating breakfast on Saturday. There's a knock at the door. The possibly dead Mr. Fix-it answers it and proceeds to give Lexi's roommate a hardtime. Eventually he lets her in, and she declares she has a delivery for me. Lexi burned me a CD of amazing songs, wrote me a note, and then had her roommate deliver it. It was awesome. If I hadn't screwed up my physics test later that day the day would have been great.

Update: Another one arrived via roommate mail just a little bit ago. This one is filled with various churchy music. :-)

Halloween

So Halloween has come and gone for another year. The Great Pumpkin provided me with sugar cookies and my wallet provided me with candy. The evening was a grand success with a viewing of Arachnophobia out on the lawn. It was cold, very cold, but many blankets made it comfortable.

I checked my grade for Modern Physics today, and found out I'm actually doing quite well. I have an A- at the moment and am ranked 9 out of 22 students. I was surprised at this because I almost always feel like I have no idea what's going on; but apparently most of the class has even less of a clue.

Lexi Khan leaves the state tomorrow. I will be bored and lonely for many days this month. I do have to take a test on Saturday, and Monday, so there will at least be something to partially distract me from my boredom... Maybe I'll get some work done on my projects that will be coming up due sooner than I think.