Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.

October 29, 2004

Pure Awesomicity

Although I have way too many things due tomorrow morning and will not sleep until 9:15am, I am ridiculously happy. Things are going really well. I have a loving girlfriend, awesome friends, hilarious professors, and fascinating classes. This is a moment of Zen....
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October 25, 2004

Containded in the Hum between Voice and Drum

My life is quickly turning into a Faithless song, fast electronica and amazingly chill at the same time. And at good Faithless song at that. I am making kernel coding progress, and classes are going OK. It's a lot of stuff to handle, but Naranja is amazing, and hanging out with Tristan and friends is fun. I also went to The Bridge School Benefit Concert today, at which the Red Hot Chili Peppers were awesome. So many things are going...
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October 20, 2004

Figuring Things Out

Wow, things have been crazy since Friday. I've been missing Nora a lot and have been really busy, without the ability to figure things out. I've been listening to a lot of great music, Postal Service, Heather Nova, Faithless, Die Toten Hosen, Sarah McLachlan, Björk and now finally Dido. I hadn't listened to Dido at all since the end of summer, to get back the originality of it. It was a good idea to save it up. I'm starting to...
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September 28, 2004

Let's get it started

I've spent the last few days watching movies and setting up my room. Enough of that. Today is the day to get started, and I am ready. I just got an email about CS 199, and things are looking good. I don't have an exact unit count or project description yet, but I am starting to prepare for the beginning of the class. Today will be a day of reading and awesomeness. I am completely and utterly excited....
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September 27, 2004

A Day to Unplug

Yesterday was rather ridiculous and not too productive. First of all, I just realized that my US to Europe Plug Converter, is slightly too tight for my laptop plug to fit, so I am now filing a part of it away, cause I don't think I'll be able to buy one here. Unfortunately, after filing and cutting away on it for about two hours, I tried to fit the plug, and while it wasn't far enough to work, it was...
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September 25, 2004

Arriving at Stanford

I arrived here yesterday at around 1:30 (Pacific Time, the one below my blog is set to) and dumped my stuff in my room before setting out for a tour of campus. The only thing I did before was trying to get a wireless connection to write home, without much luck. It turned out that most people aren't on campus, or were not in their rooms. The only people I was able to find initially were Eric Sun and Eric...
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September 03, 2004

How Far Would You Go?

Spending so much time on 2 different continents as I do, can mean being separated from loved ones, family and friends for large parts of the year. However, few of my friends would be so dedicated in their endeavors to get away as Doug: Doug Wilson: what time is it there? Can Sar: 10am Doug Wilson: wow! Doug Wilson: its 10 pm here; we're on exact opposite sides of the world Can Sar: where are you? Doug Wilson: Hawaii Doug...
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August 27, 2004

The Week's Work

I've been pretty busy with work this week, and did not take the time to update the blog with news of what exactly I was working on. My main activity for the week was reading "Operating Systems" by Andrew Tanenbaum. The CS-interested readers should know that this is the book that Linus Torvalds used when first learning about how OSes worked, and that he consulted in the 7 months in which he wrote the very first versions of Linux. Fewer...
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August 20, 2004

New AIM Name

For those of you who don't now yet, I got a new AIM name this week: BeingCS. Here is a short explanation to those who always wondered what my old AIM name (minbari1aut, now defunct) meant: Minbari was my long time ICQ nickname and is a race from Babylon 5. The 1 came from an attempt to make the name unique for use on AIM. The aut stands for Austria. My old name was meant to be used for a...
Posted on August 20, 2004 12:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

August 15, 2004

Back Home

I've been back from Madrid since Friday and currently cooking Paella (its on the stove right now). I spent the last few days catching up on things and getting back to work. One big goal for next quarter is going to be the GRE, which I have started looking into more deeply today. While I am not worried about the math section, my vocabulary is definitely a bit rusty. The writing section has always my greatest obstacle, but two years...
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August 05, 2004

Homage To Catalonia

Barcelona, to be precise. We've been in this lively city for two and a half days now, which has mostly welcomed us with scorching heat and sun. This does not, apparently, affect the city's native inhabitants who go (run) about their business undisturbed. Barcelona to me is large crowds of people crossing streets and running down Boulevards with shopping bags in their hands at an incredible pace. Its also a city of rather chaotic traffic, where crossing the street is...
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August 02, 2004

Ready for Spain

I'm all packed up and ready for Spain. I had to double check if our hotel reservations for Barcelona and Madrid were for the right dates (we had to change our travel schedule a bit), and fortunately, everything worked out perfectly. Nine days in Spain should be very relaxing indeed, and I have been feeling enthusiastic and inspired today. I finished up Great Expectations, which I read after having seeing the fabulous movie adaptation (I had bought the book long...
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August 02, 2004

Living Life in the Fast Lane

I got back from Germany on Friday, and am going to Spain tomorrow. In between I spent a day at a nearby lake with friends. Germany and especially Berlin was completely awesome, and I could not find any time to sit down and blog about what I was up to. Today I am busily trying to make sure that everything is booked and ready for our Spain trip, and I will most likely be frequently blogging from both Barcelona and...
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July 23, 2004

Off To Germany

Nora and I will be leaving for Germany in an hour. We will be going to Erfurt first, and then to Berlin. The trip will be a mixture of visiting relatives and sightseeing. I will try to write an update or two next week, but I am not sure how well that will work out. If I don't get the chance, I'll update when I get back on Friday. The weather was extremely hot last week, but apparently they had...
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July 20, 2004

Doug Is Hilarious

Doug Wilson: wait so is solo MT still free? Doug Wilson: btw I keep hyping you up to Dave Blackman Can Sar: anyway MT3.0 is free Doug Wilson: you better live up to it when you get back...
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July 10, 2004

Long Line of Cars

If you want to know how spinning your car out of control feels like, read on. After getting an Austrian driver's license, every driver is now required to take part in an secure driving program, that shows you what happens when your wheels start slipping, or you somehow otherwise lose control of your car. All of this happens in a semi-controlled manner, but the first time you hit the brakes while trying to maneuver around an obstacle and your wheels...
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July 05, 2004

Touring Vienna

I used the 90 minute break during BlogTalk to walk around Vienna for a bit. I started off from Schwedenplatz to the Stadtpark and then crossed the Ringstraße walking towards the Stephansdom, using some slightly unusual side streets. I then had lunch at PizzaBizzi which is a great Pizza chain (around 5 different locations), and the one in the Roten Turm Straße is particularly great. I then went towards the Opera, to buy something to drink from a nearby Supermarket...
Posted on July 5, 2004 06:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

June 17, 2004

Startling to Settle

I have been here for quite a while now, but have not been able to really settle yet, because I was busy leading Tristan around until a few days ago, and now Joanna is here for a few days. I started reading understanding the Virtual Memory Manager and Linux Kernel Development, and am liking both books very much. I have to hurry a bit with reading the former, because I was supposed to review it for OSNews a week ago,...
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June 14, 2004

Back in Austria

I'm back home. More substantial updates soon. It was a good quarter, I'd say....
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June 06, 2004

Almost Done

I had four finals already, with varying success. I hope things don't turn out as badly as I fear for some of them, because I had basically zero time to study. I have one more final on Tuesday, and will try to catch up on studying and packing before then. I am extremely looking forward to my research project, and this summer in general; it should be an amazing time....
Posted on June 6, 2004 02:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

June 01, 2004

A Busy Weekend

This has been an extremely busy weekend for me, that is fittingly ending in a work marathon to finish my Math marathon. The good thing about all of this is that I am now almost completely caught up on EE 108 B, Math 51 and CS 154. Tomorrow will be a day of studying for CS 240 and Math 51. Apart from that I also need to email Julie about my president's scholar project and finally turn in my monitor...
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May 21, 2004

Too Much Food

I somehow managed to survive this week. The only thing I still have due is CS 157 on Saturday, and though that might be stressful, I am pretty confident we will finish it on time. Next week should be a lot more manageable. I just got back my CS 240 midterm, and definitely will good about it. I thought I did badly and ended up doing well, not as well as on the first one (compared to the rest of...
Posted on May 21, 2004 02:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

May 18, 2004

3rd Try

This is the third time I'm writing this entry. I have three problemsets and a midterm in the next three days, which worries me a bit. I am also worried about getting into coterm and about how CS 199 Independent Study for Fall quarter is going to work out. But instead of worrying, I will now concentrate and get it done. I can do this. In other news, 8 of my 12 books from Amazon arrived, and 7 of them...
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May 16, 2004

Meeting Miguel

Last week I met Miguel de Icaza at VM'04. Miguel gave Friday's keynote, about how the idea for Mono was conceived to make Gnome programs language and library independent. One of his best examples for this was Tcl/Tk, a scripting language that was extensively used for GUI design, only because Tk, its GUI toolkit was so easy to use. Prior solutions like Bonobo (also started by Miguel) failed (that one due to the cruft of Corba bindings, though I know...
Posted on May 16, 2004 08:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

May 06, 2004

End of Tech Sessions

The technical sessions for today just ended, and the next events are a reception and birds of a feather sessions. As far as I know the latter are discussion sessions, were people can bring up topics they are interested in, and then have people talk about the topic. Depending on how many people stay around I might leave a bit early, in order to relax and prepare for tomorrow, or stay until 10pm. We will see, at least I now...
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May 06, 2004

A Terrible Mix Up

I just got an email saying that my PS grant was only approved for $540 instead of the $1015 I requested. What happened is that I update my project after about a month, and I guess they got the old request. This is quite terrible, since now that I have attended the conference, there is almost no money left for books. I hope that I can somehow get this fixed, but I feel bad about having completely messed up the...
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March 30, 2004

Back at Stanford

I'm back at Stanford, and classes today have been very interesting. I am massively jetlagged and not even trying to fight it, but instead using it to catch up on sleep. I slept 13 hours yesterday, and am off to bed again, to sleep until 10 am tomorrow, for another 14 hours, if I don't wake up early. Goodnight everyone. Expect more blogging soon....
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March 20, 2004

About to Leave

My shuttle is leaving in 20 minutes. I am about done with packing, and I'm really looking forward to coming home. Now for the long flight......
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March 19, 2004

A Day 'till the flight

I bought and borrowed textbooks for next quarter, and actually only had to purchase one book. I have been ironing and packing for my flight which will leave at 2:30 pm tomorrow. I have also been working on getting a working copy of our Nachos project, which I now finally have. In order to make much more progress I will need my Assignment 3 grading results, to see what parts I will have to fix. I also submitted my AP...
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March 19, 2004

A Day To Relax

I got up at at 5 pm today and did very little but relax, clean up my room, organize my computer files and do laundry. I also mapped out some more details of my research project and am now looking for a Nachos backup that has all my assignment 3 code and no assignment 4 code, because fixing that code would just needlessly complicate everything. Maybe Travis has this. Tomorrow will be spent doing a lot of last minute tasks...
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March 16, 2004

Philosophical Deadend

I wasted this afternoon on weblog designing and philosophical discussions. It got to the point where I could not sleep because of being aggravated about the argument. My neighbor tried to argue that it was not legitimate to abridge the right of an individual to save a million lives, and that negative rights were inherent and unalterable. While I believe that there must be unalterable rights that cannot be violated, I do not believe that these are created out of...
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March 14, 2004

Sand in my Shoes

Yesterday I finally spent some time outside, with no more programming for the quarter. Next quarter I will try to be outside as much as possible, which should work well, because I will not have programming classes. I might also start taking my laptop outside, though my battery is getting pretty weak. We went to half-moon bay at around 10:30 am and ran into some bad traffic, only to realize that the beach was completely foggy. We lay on the...
Posted on March 14, 2004 08:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

March 12, 2004

The last few days

The last few days have had some of the nicest weather I have ever seen at Stanford during winter quarter. The sun was shining outside while I was sitting in my room from Friday to Thursday. I got very little sleep, but "finished" 2 projects. My CS 161 project went OK, though there was a slight possibility of doing extremely well, at a time cost that I was not willing to commit. I think that it will hopeful go well...
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March 07, 2004

Coding until the Deadline

I have a Genetic Sequence Matcher for CS 161 due at midnight on Tuesday and a File System for CS 140 due on Thursday. I have programmed my part of the sequence matcher and hope that my partners will finish the rest. CS 140 is going to be a lot worse. We are still working on getting many basic functionalities to work, but unfortunately that will leave us with a few more parts of the assignment in addition to a...
Posted on March 7, 2004 04:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

March 01, 2004

European Food

I have been trying to fall asleep for the last half hour but have been unable to. I have been thinking about all the amazing European food I could be having at home, which has kept me awake. I haven't had European food for almost two months now, and I don't know how much longer I can survive without it. I would love to have Pizza Cardinale or Pizza Salami, Pasta Carbonara, real bread with real butter on it, with...
Posted on March 1, 2004 03:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

February 19, 2004

Looking for a Cellphone

I am starting to think that having a cell phone here would be cheaper and more convenient than a land line. I would also really like to have a Java capable camera phone, so I can start Moblogging. I am looking for a small Ericsson or Nokia with triband, Bluetooth, and a good screen. I am also going to start blogging about mobile computing a lot more than I used to, because I have completely neglected my interest in cellphones...
Posted on February 19, 2004 12:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

February 16, 2004

To Go To ConCon or Not

Today is the day of ConCon. Although I really want to go, I have lots of things to do, and I think it might be better if I stayed here and studied. This is quite a hard decision. I think I will get started on CS 161 and the see if it is easy enough for me to finish it on time and go....
Posted on February 16, 2004 03:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

February 10, 2004

Trip to Los Trancos

On Sunday I took a trip to the Los Trancos state park as part of our ESYS 10 field trip. Los Trancos is located in the foothills above Stanford and offers an amazing view. It is also located right in the San Andreas fault which provided some amazing effects on nature and the landscape. Living in the foothills must be amazing, wood everywhere, with the most beautiful view of the valley. It is, however, almost scary how close Stanford is...
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January 22, 2004

Kudos to Myself

I want to use this opportunity to give kudos to myself, for fixing a bug in our CS 140 assignment. Right now I'm not sure if it works, but I hope it does. Still, I am happy....
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January 20, 2004

Election Ignorance

There used to be a time when I knew more about US politics than anyone I knew, when I knew the position and voting histories of all candidates and most senators, had read all the relevant campaign papers, had heard every detail. Now I feel completely ignorant about current events. I understand the fundamentals better than I ever did, but I don't know specifics anymore. This makes me feel strangely powerless. After the last US election I resigned myself to...
Posted on January 20, 2004 08:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

January 20, 2004

Worried about Work

Jasmine told me that I need to update the blog, and I agree. It has been a long time since I have updated this, and the same is true for most of the blogs I read. I have been overwhelmed with work this week, because I was on ski-trip for the weekend. I now have CS 140, CS 161, and ESYS 10 to do, and the former two are turning into a real problem. I am ahead on reading in...
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January 06, 2004

Back at Stanford

I had a long and difficult trip, but I am now back at Stanford....
Posted on January 6, 2004 11:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

December 30, 2003

Coming Soon, to a Road Near You

It is done, I finally got it. As of this morning I am the proud owner of an Austrian driver's license. I can pick up the official license card on Friday, and will probably get it translated so I can use it in the US without any difficulties. Getting it took a lot of effort and money. I drove an estimated 600 miles in the last 10 days, driving three to five hours every day, even in the rain and...
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December 28, 2003

Changing Perspectives

A few years ago I used to think that intellectual discussions should be like debates, with one side convincing the other. It is remarkable how different I feel about this today. It is foolish to think that one could ever have a complete answer; discussions are about conversation, merging of ideas, and learning. Maybe I just had not met other people with interesting ideas, or was too insecure to conceive that I could be wrong....
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December 28, 2003

Welcome Back, It's been a While

Tomorrow is my birthday. Today it is two weeks since I'm in Vienna. My grades from last quarter were quite disappointing, and though I think that some of them are not quite justified, this confirmed that I completely overworked and overwhelmed myself. Last quarter, in some sense, felt like a disaster, after some of the things that happened to my group of friends and the immense amount of work and stress I had to deal with. But on the other...
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December 13, 2003

Going Home

So all my five finals are finally over. This quarter was definitely among the most tiring one's, but some very good things happened as well. Packing is so much work, and moving rooms is even worse. The hardest part is that my new room isn't quite empty yet, so I will only store my stuff in there over winter, but won't have time to completely move in before Nick, the current owner moves out. But in the greater shape of...
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December 11, 2003

The Final Challenge

This quarter has been pretty harsh on me. After four finals, tomorrow is the hardest of them all: E40. I am exhausted and tired, but I've studied, though not nearly enough. I think I will go to sleep and get up at 6 to study. Wish me luck....
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December 07, 2003

The Music of Healing

More Tommy Sands: Don't beat the drum, that frightens the children Don't sing the songs about winning and losing Sit down beside me, the green fields are bleeding Sing me the music of healing Who would have thought I could feel so contented To learn I was wrong after all of my rambles I've learned to be hard and I've learned how to tremble Sing me the music of healing Somehow the cycle of vengeance keeps turning Till each other's...
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December 07, 2003

Back to Ireland

I've been listening to Tommy Sands' music, and I feel like going back to Ireland and take a break from all of this. Tommy Sands is a musician who sings about life in Northern Ireland and the continuing conflict. His songs are hopeful songs about peace and friendship from somebody who has seen friends killed in the street and not lost hope. He is also known as an extreme pacifist that has organized events where ex-fighters for both the catholic...
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December 07, 2003

Overanalyzing

Maybe we all overanalyze things too much all the time. Like this entry....
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December 07, 2003

Give a Hug Day

If you have not hugged somebody today, go and hug somebody and tell them that you are their friend. Nobody has been hurt while being hugged....
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December 05, 2003

The G4 iBook

I just received a new 933Mhz G4 14" iBook with 256mb of RAM, 40GB of diskspace, and an AirportExtreme card. Though the computer is not for me, but for my girlfriend, I will get to keep it for a week and in the process review it for OSNews. I am playing around with it right now and it seems like a very nice machine, though I will have to create a user account for myself before I can really use...
Posted on December 5, 2003 04:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

December 04, 2003

Work is Over

Most of my classes are basically over, and the only thing I have left to do before finals is a final presentation tomorrow. I managed to finish 2 problemsets and an essay today which makes me quite proud. I am now trying to relax a bit today, and finally getting rid of all remnants of my cold. I have been watching lectures for the last hour, and have started installing Gentoo on Virtual PC. The installation has had some problems,...
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December 03, 2003

Enya Rocks

For the record, Enya is one of my favorite music artists. Now if I could only find the Paint the Sky with Stars CD. More about this later. Things are looking up....
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December 01, 2003

Enough Compilers

After working on CS 143 for so long and being sick I feel like I really need a break. I am immensely looking forward to winter break, and am glad I am only taking four classes next quarter. I have 1,25 problemsets, a paper and a bit of a program to finish before I can start studying for finals. I will now finish these and get this quarter over with....
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December 01, 2003

Off to Sleep

After listening to music my mind is calmed and I feel ready to sleep. I will write more tomorrow....
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December 01, 2003

I Cannot Sleep

I went to bed at 9pm and slept till 10:50. I then got up and went back to sleep at 11:20. I lay in bed till 2:10 am with millions of thoughts going through my head, while I was completely unable to sleep. I have never had problems falling asleep, maybe with getting up, but never with falling asleep. I hope that I won't be sick when I get up tomorrow. I am listening to Enya right now, which always...
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November 30, 2003

Exhausted & Tired

I'm sick and it's starting to get on my nerves. I've had lots of work to do over thanksgiving, and I somehow feel like I haven't gotten much done. I'm somehow unable to get started on anything and really really hope I get healthy by tomorrow so that I have energy to work again....
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November 28, 2003

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just had Thanksgiving with Albert, his family, and lots and lots of friend's of Albert's family. This was my first real (big) thanksgiving dinner, and the food was delicious. Though I don't really see the point of this holiday, the evening was a lot of fun, and it was quite interesting to meet new people, some of which actually go/went to Stanford. Thanks to Albert for this awesome day. In other news, I have fixed some bugs in the...
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November 23, 2003

The Beauty of Zen Gardens

Although I am not really interested in Japanese culture, I am starting to find Zen gardens to be amazingly beautiful. The thought of sitting in the grass and thinking is intrinsically beautiful to me, and I love the feeling of calm and quiet that must exist there. I often imagine myself sitting in a garden thinking, and then hearing somebody walk up to me. I open my eyes and look at them, and it feels like waking up from a...
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November 21, 2003

Human vs. AI: I Win!

I just played Othello/Reversi against Max's and Greg's AI and one the first game were I thought about every move. I won 63 to 33. In the second game the AI was improved and I played quickly on instinct. I realized that I made a mistake some time into the game (right after the move), and was destroyed. This game was not very serious though, and I will have a serious rematch on Sunday. I am excited. In other news,...
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November 12, 2003

Work

It is Wednesday morning, and I have three problemsets due today, and one due tomorrow that I have to finish today. Travis and I finished CS 143 yesterday and turned it in on time, and I went to EAST to work on CS 242. I am finished with the E40 problemset, the CS242 problemset and most of the E40 prelab. I now need to do the write-ups for the latter two and watch a lecture for CS 143 and do...
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November 06, 2003

My Mind on the Matrix

Sleeping late, watching the Matrix and then going to a magnificent talk about cyborgs (more about that tomorrow) does weird things to my mind. I am very tired and very excited at the same time. I am unable to do work, mostly because I am agitated because I know that I will see the matrix again tonight. I am listening to Cake, especially "Commissioning A Symphony in C" which I find to be an amazingly beautiful song, mostly because I...
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November 05, 2003

Getting Up For the Matrix

I got up at 3:15am this morning to go to Denny's and then to The Matrix Revolutions. I will not say much about the movie till most people have seen it, there are NO spoilers below. I liked the movie, and thinking about it I am starting to like it a lot more than I did before. Some of the things I would have done differently, and I will not accept some things as having happened, but I liked it...
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November 03, 2003

Happy Birthday Nora!

Happy Birthday Nora! Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!...
Posted on November 3, 2003 09:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

October 30, 2003

Too Much for One Week

Too many things have been happening this week, and I'm overwhelmed. I had three midterms this week, which I'm all very unsure about and I got my CS 143 program back, which I am very unhappy with, eventhough I thought it was perfect. Bad stuff happened to lots of my friends and I was quite worried about some of them, which did not really affect me until I got back my program grade. Now I am fearing that getting my...
Posted on October 30, 2003 11:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

October 29, 2003

In Need of Sleep

I was planning to go to sleep at midnight yesterday becaue I have been a bit tired lately. Unfortunately this did not quite work out and I went to bed at 3am, and then had to get up at 8:30 for CS 147. The reason I went to class is because David Liddle is guest lecturing. Liddle was one of the first people to teach CS 147 a long time ago, and his work on the Alto and Star led...
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October 25, 2003

I Survived

It is Saturday morning and I am still alive. Last week I had a CS 242 Problemset, an E40 Problemset, a CS 143 Problemset, a CS 147 Essay, an E40 Prelab and a CS 143 program due. I also had an STS midterm. At the end of the week I was almost ready to give up, but Thursdays miraculous solution to the problem of parsing the "let" statement in Cool gave me new strength. Yesterday I went to the Panther...
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October 21, 2003

Looking Forward to Friday

I was woken up by my phone ringing, got up to pick it up, and was annoyed that the call was by the Medical Center, looking for someone who was no longer assosciated with my dorm phone number (phone numbers stay the same for rooms). Unfortunately it was already to late to go back to sleep, so I had to get up and go to CS 143. I have been swamped with work this week, and I really feel like...
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October 20, 2003

Work, Work and Music

As work goes, this weekend has been crazy. We submitted our CS 147 project proposal today, and Eric set up a great website. Travis and me made good progress on CS 143. I finished the first half of the 143 problemset, and the second part requires information from Tuesday's lecture. We are finished with everything but let, errors and precedence. Let is turning out to be quite difficult, and unfortunately I will not have too much time to work on...
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October 13, 2003

Kill Bill, Dinner and a Lot of Work

I am currently fighting against our last bug in CS 143. If anyone out there knows how it is possible to push characters that were already read back onto the stream in Jlex please send me an email. Apart from that, there is only one known difference between our Lexer and that of the Professor. According to the language specification '\0' is not valid in strings. I implemented our Lexer, so that it would complain about this. The provided binary...
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October 10, 2003

Dragon's Book and Indian Food

After trying to get the Dragon's book (Compilers: Principle, Techniques, and Tools) unsuccessfully for a week, I finally got it today. I have not had enough time to read it yet, but from the table of constants it looks fascinating. While at the bookstore I also looked at the textbook for Earth Systems 10, which I will take next quarter. The class is a moderately easy 5 units, and satisfies my science requirement. It also covers an area that I...
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October 07, 2003

More on the Job Fair

The job fair was both a negative and a positive experience. All the companies I were interested in were not present (Apple, Google, SUN), though they will be at future job fairs. This was, however, still a great disappointment. I gave a Resume to Amazon.com and the conversation went really well. I talked about my Coursework, CS history and areas of focus. In the end I got the recruiter's email address, and he told me to email or call him...
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October 06, 2003

Blogging Breakdown

Today I was unable to post to my blog because Movable Type kept giving me errors. Because of that I lost an entry, which I don't mind much, because I am just happy to see that it is working again. Today was mildly productive. I finished most of CS 242, though I am still missing 2,5 problems, that I mostly understand. I also still have to do my E40 problemset and prelab, all due Wednesday. After that I can relax...
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October 01, 2003

OSNews Book Reviewer

I just applied to OSNews as a book reviewer. If they accept me, they would send me free books, and I would have to read and review them within two or three weeks. Reading books is something that I love to do, and writing the reviews would not take me long. I have been a fan of OSNews for a long time now, and I would just love to write for them. I hope they accept me....
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September 28, 2003

Work, Work, Work

Today I first started working on my CS 140 Threading assignment. I read the roadmaps and several papers and have been reading through code for the last few hours. For now we only have to look at synchronization, scheduling, threading, mailbox and thread switching classes, but there are still a lot of details to work out. Reading the code is great, and I mostly understand what's going on, but I am not yet sure what we have to do to...
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September 26, 2003

Back at School and a 1000 Other Things

Much has happened since the last update. I am now writing this from CS 140 class, from Gates at Stanford. I failed my driver's license exam, but then got a permit to drive with my dad sitting next to me, and drove around a hundred miles in three days. I went to Turkey for 5 days, which was stressful but interesting. I now live in Naranja, Lagunita Court. All my classes seem very interesting, and though there is not that...
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September 08, 2003

Two Days to Go!

My driving test will be this Wednesday, I have two lessons before I have to be ready for it. I had a practice test today, and drove quite well. Unfortunately I still made some small errors that would have barred me from passing, if it had been for real. I came to close to two parking cars because I failed to reduce my speed, and made a few other mistakes, mostly related to not looking ahead far enough. Tomorrow we...
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September 05, 2003

Back Home

I have been back home for a week now, but there was little to blog. Nora and me were both studying for our theoretical driver's license exam, which we both passed today. Wednesday we will have our practical exam, which should be quite a bit harder. Yesterday there was a party at Babsi's place, and all my friends from high school, and some other people were there. I realized that I had missed some of my friends more than I...
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August 27, 2003

Still in London

More updates from London. Fame on Monday was great, we both really enjoyed it, and our seats were pretty good, though they were really really high and we were a bit afraid of standing up when people tried to get to their seats because of that. Pirates of the Carribean was pretty good too, definitely a fun movie but not awe inspiring or anything. Yesterday we walked around Knightsbridge and Chelsea, two richer parts of London. We rode the Subway...
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August 25, 2003

The Streets of London

The last night in Nimes was quite difficult. It turned out that a group of mentally and physically handicapped people had moved into the room next to us, with which we had a shared bathroom and shower. We did not really mind that the shower was occupied for more than an hour, and that we heard loud screaming, which was a bit disturbing. But afterwards we saw that someone had removed to the door to the shower/bathroom, without even informing...
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August 23, 2003

A Nice and Quiet Day in Nimes

Today was pretty uneventful but still nice. First of all my e-mail account was spammed for the first time, but I guess nowadays that is pretty standard, and OSX Mail and Stanford filter pretty nicely, so everything should be fine. To all you Stanford people, how much spam do you get? I've been reading up on Loro RPG Mafia, and it looks like so much fun. Sara did a great job of organizing it, and I hope they are going...
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August 22, 2003

A Quick Trip to Montpellier

We took the TGV to Montpellier this morning, which took 25 minutes. It was very different from Nimes, starting with the large number of tourists. Most of the people that passed by us spoke a language other than French, which does not happen much in Nimes outside the youth hostel. The weather was hot as usual, but we walked very far anyway. Montpellier's proximity to the Cote 'd Azur was definitely apparent - the entire place was full of palm...
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August 21, 2003

This is a Lot Better

Nimes definitely is a better place than Roanne. If you are thinking about going to either of the two, choose Nimes. Yesterday evening we were taken to the youth hostel by some crazy french dude who looked like Tom Fullner, that asked us if we wanted to hitch hike to the hostel (500 meters up a hill). We decided to go because he was accompanied by a young woman and seemed pretty friendly. He took us to the hostel up...
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August 20, 2003

From Paris to Roanne

Be informed that the last days in Paris were great. The last day was a bit cooler and we managed to stay out all day, and the day we left we went to the Sacre Coeur in the morning before leaving for the train. The train ride was nice with no major events. Roanne was quite different than Paris. We arrived late and all the shops were already closed, so we went to McDonalds. The next day was a holiday...
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August 12, 2003

This is Starting to get Old: The Paris Heat

I am blogging this from a keyboard that is mostly normal, with a few notable exceptions, that are making it difficult to type. Please excuse any stupid spelling mistakes, they are probably not my fault. The last three days have been incredibly hot. Two days ago we reached a maximum temperature of 39 Degrees Celsius, which is the record for at least the last 10 years. Because of the heat it has been impossible to spend the entire day outside,...
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August 09, 2003

That Paris is So Hot Right Now

I hope that at least one person who reads this blog got the Zoolander reference in the headline. It does not refer to my cousin, whose name also happens to be Paris, but to the city I'm currently in. It is soooooo hot, yesterday it was 38 degrees Celsius, which is definitely a record for this part of Europe. Today was more acceptable at around 34 degrees, but still really hot. To get Fahrenheit from that, multiply by 1,8 and...
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August 07, 2003

Leaving for Paris Tomorrow

We finally managed to go to Mont St. Michel today, and it was quite an experience. First of all let me say that it reminded me of Minas Mirth (or Minas Morgul?) or whatever else the mountain that Gondor was located on in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King was killed. My theory is that Tolkien was definitely influenced by this mountain. Anyway, the weather was foggy at first and there were hundreds of people trying to push...
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August 06, 2003

Hot & Cold - A Tale of Two Days

Yesterday Nora and I decided to stay in Dinan, because we were too exhausted from our trip to St. Malo. That turned out to be an excellent idea, because as soon as we arrived near the cathedral of Dinan (the top of the hill on which Dinan is located) the temperature got so high that even sitting in the shade was unbearable because of the terribly hot wind. We bought salad, cheese, salami and baguette and had a wonderful self-made...
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August 04, 2003

A Hot Day in St. Malo

Today was an unbearably hot day. We got up early and then walked to the bus station for 40 minutes. We had to hurry, because the walk was a lot longer than expected. The bus ride was about an hour long, but we both enjoyed watching the scenery. St. Malo has a nice historical city center, that is surrounded by thick walls and located right at the ocean. Today there was market day and the entire town looked like one...
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August 03, 2003

Blogging from Dinan, France

Hello World! I am writing this with a keyboard that is causing me considerable difficulty: Instead of qwerty, this is a "azerty" keyboard where every button is confusing. We arrived in Stansted, England yesterday and stayed in a Bed & Breakfast, that was in a 15th century farmhouse. We took a 5 mile walk to the nearest city, Bishops Stortford, where we bought food. We were so exhausted we had to take the bus back. We flew to Dinard this...
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August 01, 2003

A Month in France and a Ton of News

First of all, I came back from East Germany on Sunday and I'm leaving for France tomorrow. I will sometimes have Web access there, but not all the time, so updates will be sporadic, but definitely very interesting. This will be a long entry, but I am not going to split it due to time constraints. The Weekend in Erfurt, Germany I spent Thursday of last week on three different trains to Erfurt. The Austrian one was definitely the worst...
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July 23, 2003

Travelling to Germany Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will spend eight hours hours on a train to Erfurt, Germany. The great thing about this is that that means I have eight hours to just read, and another eight hours when travelling back on Sunday. I've not been to Germany too much, so this weekend will be quite an experience. It will also be very stressful for both Nora and me, but we'll manage. There probably will be no updates while I'm gone, because blogging from my...
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July 22, 2003

I Learnt Something Today

I learnt Something Today: I still have a lot to learn. I actually learnt this yesterday evening, but it is still true. As much as I would like to know everything, it's simply not true. The story continues..... My dad and me drove around in the BMW Z4 yesterday, we took tons of pictures, but are undecided on whether we really like the car (we hate the black version my dad got for the 2 days). Therefore we have to...
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July 16, 2003

Reading, Reading, Driving

I've been reading The Design of UNIX Opreating System by Bach recently, I finished the first 150 pages today, which mainly dealt with the file system, and file processing. The book is easy to read, which is a really nice change from TCP/IP Illustrated. For now I've laid Volume 2 away till Friday, when I will hopefully be finished with the Bach book. I will then post a comprehensive review of the entire book, which I can definitely recommend to...
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July 12, 2003

Much Progress Today

I read around 80 pages of TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 in the last three hours. This is great news, because I was already planning to stop reading the book for sometime, because it was becoming too difficult. For some magical reason, most of it now seems very clear to me. I hope to read around 50 to 100 pages again tomorrow. In other news, Nora started reading The Testament by John Grisham around the same time I started reading and...
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July 07, 2003

Driver's School and 3 Doctors

Today was the first day of my driving course. For now it is just three hours of theory a day, which is really simple and really boring. My first real driving lesson is on Monday, which is mildly exciting. Overall, the whole driver's license thing is just annoying. I've been to the doctor 3 times, have to take a lesson on First-Aid, 2 weeks of theory, 3 preliminary tests, one final theory test, 9 2 hour driving lessons, 1 practical...
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July 04, 2003

The Music Is Still Alive

I went to a Jazz Festival with Nora, and Martina, and some others. I had more ideas today than in the last few weeks combined, but more about that tomorrow. For now I am happy to say that music as an art still exists. Though things like American Idol and endlessly repetitive mainstream stuff like "In Da Club" have gone a long way in destroying music, it can still be found in some places. The artist was Mike Ottis, an...
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June 29, 2003

Walking in the 'Innenstadt'

Today was quite a relaxed day where I got quite a bit of reading done (TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume 1), went swimming, and cooked Spaghetti Carbonara for Nora. Afterwards we went to the Vienna 'Innenstadt' which translates to inner city, but in reality is the old historical part of the city, rather than the run down dangerous part, like in American cities. I hadn't been there for quite a while, and seeing the city again was great. What I especially liked,...
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June 28, 2003

Driving 10 Meters in a Convertible

So today I drove the first ten meters in a car ever. For some weird reason my dad totally forgot the fact that he was in any way attached to his car, and let me drive it, with him sitting in passenger seat. I have never even turned on the engine off a car, so learning how to shift gears, while starting the engine, without killing it off were quite difficult at first. My total drive distance was only about...
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June 26, 2003

Bend it like Beckham, Battle Royal and a Broken DVD Player

For all you second floor Lorons, I finally gave in to the pressure and watched Bend it like Beckham. I have to agree, it is in fact not a documentary. I thought the movie was great, fun to watch, and defintely one of the best comedies I have seen lately. Although I don't think that David Beckham is a good soccer player, and wasn't initerested in the Indian culture part too much, I very much enjoyed the entire Shakespearean comedy...
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June 20, 2003

Some Things I Believe In

I made this a lot shorter, because I didn't want to ramble on for too long. Yesterday quite a few people got mad at me for various reasons. I believe that people should have opinions about things and believe in those. I beleve that people should question those opinions and beliefs, and have them questioned by others, in order to possibly improve them or be strenghtened in them. I believe that such discussions should be civil, and that I often...
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June 16, 2003

Back To School

I visited my old high school/middle school today. It was a weird experience, mainly because it was the last day of finals for seniors and everyone was busy. I met the headmaster and my old head teacher and they were both excited to see me, but didn't have that much time. They invited me to the graduation ceremony tomorrow, to talk to all my old teachers afterwards, or maybe even give a speech, but it still seemed like something was...
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June 12, 2003

You Guys are Great!

The world should know that I have the coolest friends on earth! Today at six pm, after a long allnighter and lots of fun (yeah Denny's) I was finally ready to leave for Vienna and finally see Nora again. I figured I would say goodbye to everyone, but boy was I wrong. Everyone just followed me to the shuttle, took pictures, hugged me and was really really nice. Great kudos to Jasmine, the Erics, the Kats (one with long hair...
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June 11, 2003

Crazyness, Friendship & Leaving

The last few days were pretty crazy. I stayed up longer than I should a lot, went running at 3am and learned more about some people then was comfortable to know. But that's what living life is about and I am really happy. In two days I will see Nora, and I am so looking forward to it. My friends in Austria are apparently doing crazy stuff, I learned very unexpected things about 2 of them, some of which might...
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June 09, 2003

Lots of Events & Lots of Studying

I have not been posting lately because some things have happened to some of my friends and I was not sure whether I should write about them. I also have tons of work to do, but Lora complained about the outdatedness of my blog. This blog has always been veering between technical and personal postings and I have finally come to the conclusion that I will leave both of them in here. I might at some time in the future...
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June 04, 2003

Why am I so happy?

For some reason I am really really happy right now. There are various reasons for this. Finished 2 Problemsets/Programs First of all I finished both a CS 107 LISP Program, and a CS 103B Problemset. Though the former was giving me lots of troubles, I found LISP to be fascinating, and will study it further before next year (probably the same for Python and ML, which we are covering tomorrow). Turing Machines (103B) are very interesting and fun, I'm very...
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May 25, 2003

Why I'm Glad I didn't go to Frosh Fest

Today was apparently the day of one of the biggest campus parties of the year: Froshfest. I am very glad I went to see The Matrix Reloaded instead. I don't really like the big organized parties where everyone says it's going to be great, and all these supposedly great things will happen. The 10 minutes we spent at the Slav party yesterday were fun, because it was kind of a spontaneous thing of some Loro people trying to get away...
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May 20, 2003

Philosophy, Faculty Night and Randomness

Before I start, I wanted to say that Nora got a blog today. I am pretty excited, though she said I should wait some time till I publicize her URL. Stay tuned for updates. Today was mostly spent in class, at faculty night, and in front of the computer, listening to the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack and Massive Attack....
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May 13, 2003

Babylon 5 all over the place

Yesteday I watched a Babylon 5 episode, in which G'Kar reads a poem by Yeats, that we read in IHUM section the same day: The Second Coming. I was excited enough to send an email to my TF, but this new revalation is just insane. Last month I went to a beach in Julia Pfeiffer State Park, near Big Sur in California. In Babylon 5, the captain of the station has a picture of exactly that beach, which in my...
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May 11, 2003

New Speakers and A Bike

I finally decided to buy a pair of speakers with a bass and I am very glad I did. I got the JBL Creature speakers in silver. I am now programming, watching Babylon 5 and enjoying the amazing sound. I slightly regret not buying speakers earlier, but it did not seem like a good idea at the time. In an even more surprising move, I finally bought a bike. Although I will not use it all to much this year,...
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May 08, 2003

Draw number: It's gonna be close

Our group got our draw number today: 1194 out of 2000. It could be a lot better, but I know people who suffered a 1946, so I guess we are lucky. I was very sad about this at first, but I am starting to be more positive. Right now our first choice is Toyon, which has triples. After that it get's complicated. Although I was at first feeling very very bad about the situation, I now feel more positive....
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May 06, 2003

Six Degrees of Everything

Tristan was looking at my AIM list today and was surprised to find someone on my AIM list, I added when I was admitted to Stanford. I only added the person because of his interest in Cryptography, and never ever wrote him. It turns out he was in my CS 106X section for three months, and I never knew he was on my list. The story continues..........
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April 30, 2003

CS 107, The Matrix, and Other Things.

The last few days I have mostly been doing work for classes. The CS 107 midterm will be tomorrow, and it will be extremely hard. For now, I have not been able to study too much. I must concentrate this evening and tomorrow, if I want a good grade. We watched The Matrix Trailer in CS 197 today, so I had to leave, because I did not want the spoilers. I talked to Tristan today; apparently Gavilan is organizing a...
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April 27, 2003

Bloggig Workshop

Lora, who lives next door to me, will be an RCC next year, and she offered me to give a workshop on Weblogging in her dorm next year. Although I will not be able to teach the course on it next quarter, because I missed the deadline. I can probably teach it in winter. I am really excited about how fast weblogging is taking off for me. Although I don't have too many readers yet, I feel like I am...
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