I particularly like this quote, as I think it encapsulates the most important lesson I learned (and hope to remember in future study) this past spring in my assembly programming class:

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the ( Read more... )

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At least it will be all gone in 4 days. Finals are my least favorite thing about going back to school. x_x;;;

Yesterday I was inducted (or committed?? :P ) into Phi Theta Kappa. I've never been in an honor society before, so I'm pretty pleased. Hopefully I'll keep my grades up to snuff through my exams.

I will be taking a class this summer, and ( Read more... )

Just discovered this band today.... my boyfriend was watching a video of a visualizer made from nixie tubes, and this song was playing.

http://www.honeycutmusic.com/

The above link isn't much yet, but you can hear the song "The Day I Turned to Glass" there. It's pretty sweet.

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I started out with this second Bachelor's in computer science, intending to transfer to California State University at Sacramento (aka "Sac State") in the fall of '09. However, because I've managed to keep my GPA so high (4.0 since I started attending American River College) I started thinking that maybe it would be worth my while to transfer ( Read more... )

"Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers."

~ Stephen Fry: "Language Conversation" from A Bit of Fry and Laurie

While watching this sketch, I couldn't help but think of Noam Chomsky, and his famous meaningless sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Consequently, I was not surprised when ( Read more... )

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...at least I think that's how one would write it, if one were into 1337 5p34k. :P


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Sorry it has been so long.... so much has happened, and I've been so busy ( Read more... )