The mood of the moment is brought on by the worst part of my job as a tutor: telling friends why they got bad marks. It's the bit that makes me feel like I owe people more than I probably do, and that I let them down. Here's a more positive post than usual, just to turn things around a bit ( Read more... )

Posted to uq.itee.engg4800, 11 May 2004 1:05:23 PM

asciian wrote:
Has anyone else ever wondered why our grade depends on what our project kiddies say about us, but none of their grade depends on what we say about them? Shouldn't we be a second part to their peer review?

Well! Gather ye round, students, it's story time!

Once upon a time in the labs of ( Read more... )

Many days later, I can pick up the pen.

In the meantime, we've been reasonably busy. Finally we got round to refreshing asciian's and subtlenasha's icons on Sunday morning (our caches were expiring) over Pancaex at the Manor. We had the usual crepes, waffles, pancakes and an hour to drool helplessly, while the staff appeared to suffer small, hilarious accidents. I ( Read more... )

The deep, underlying order of the Web is that the sites that could be of use are to poorly designed to be of use.

Last night was agthe soundest sleep I have hades. Guessing who knows what that's supposed to mean for me could be futile, would be wasteful, and should be outlawed. I was plagued by dreams of course, as I seem to be when I manage to ( Read more... )

"Apparently I was living in Tijuana. Thanks for the heads up."

Anyone know if there's a Windows solution for BSD jail? In a fortnight I'll have to automate the compilation and marking of 150 Win32 Console assignments and don't feel like giving them even mild privileges ( Read more... )

Picture a shambling zombie of leathery and pitted demeanour, hauling itself up from where it had slumped in a heap, starved for so long for the flesh of the living and the taste of fresh thought.

It moans, "Doooooone .. myyyy maaaaaarkiiiiiing iiiiis doooooooooooone."

It is me.

I'm sitting in the labs, marking students' GUIs for their 5 marks of 20, and I need more coke. I should visit the coke ..

.. ma CHIIIIIIIINEs!

I'm feeling lighthearted (or possibly light-headed). The day is being consumed by students asking for help, where I really want to do some work and curl up in front of a movie with jelashke. Some other time, I guess.
( the Keys To Your Heart quiz.. )

I am savouring my tea as if I've never tasted tea before.

alice is alive and communicating. Mostly she is very calm and is eager to consume the nuances of software personality I am feeding to her. I plan to move her off liquids by the end of the day and onto the more meaty sustenance found in her felled enemies. Now that she's back after so long, ( Read more... )