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Lots of things happened this past week including another UT ass kicking, lots of schoolwork, a little bit of real work, Denicia’s birthday, and just today I decided to re-arrange everything in my room. The re-arranging of my room really was just a ploy to avoid my homework and was successful for a good 8 hours. The homework did catch up to me though, and now that it’s 1:30 I’m wishing I had started a little earlier. Ah well, I did get a new room out of it!

Every now and then you may hear me mention myDesktop Online, a small program I wrote a while back to familiarize myself with C# and the .NET framework. The program was meant to be a learning experience for me, but a lot of other people found it useful and it’s now averaging almost 1,000 downloads/month. Just recently however I’ve hit a very momentous milestone, my first critic. Taken from his website:

Wouldn’t it be great to run a program which takes snapshots of your desktop every x seconds, and uploads them so everyone can see what you’re doing on your PC from moment to moment? No? No, I didn’t think so either. Not quite as stupid as the Uptime Project, but pretty close.

Ouch, he called my program stupid. Well, coming from a guy who has ‘Firefox Sucks’ banners on his site and who genuinely appears to believe that there is a shortage of internet bandwidth worldwide, I’m not sure I can take his opinion seriously. He did manage however to send some traffic my way which resulted in some downloads of the program. Thanks!

I still can’t believe we pulled it off. Everybody wrote us off us as the losers. Even all the College GameDay announcers were wearing Ohio State colored ties. Somebody forgot to give them the memo that we’re going 11-0 this season though.

TEXAS FIGHT!

Poor Kam. The dog had gotten into some food that she shouldn’t have eaten (raw meat), and it upset her stomach a little bit. When I say it upset her stomach, I mean that not 20 minutes ago Maggie went liquid poo-poo all over Kam’s floor. It was a pain to clean up, I hope that my kids never shit all over the floor.

Then just now, I was in the bathroom and hear Kam shouting, “shit, Shit, SHIT!” accompanied with the smell of smoke. I peeked around the corner to see what the deal was, and his shirts laying over the back of his chair were englufed in flames. Luckily he was able to put it out before the whole house burnt to the ground. He had lit a candle and put it on the floor near the dog mess to help with the smell, and the weight of the clothes on the back of his chair caused it to tip over into the candle. The upstairs of our house is still pretty full of smoke, good thing we took the batteries out of the smoke detectors to use in the tv controller!

Yes, meet Dr. Priebe, the guy who calls the shots for CS undergrads. A month ago I was approved to take 12 hours of upper-division CS classes this semester, which was a necessity for me to graduate on time. I can’t override the registration system though, so they told me to come in on the first day of class so they could manually add me to CS 341. Just to be on the safe side, I got on the waitlist for CS341, which was the class I needed for them to manually add me into. I knew that once I made it to the top of the waitlist the system still wouldn’t add me because of the hour limitation, but it would be my backup in case they told me the section was too full. Well, that’s exactly what happened. I went in and they told me that even though I had been at the top of the waitlist for months, the section was too full for them to add me. There was an open section though for the same class, but at a horrible time with a horrible teacher, and he said that was my only option. After arguing with him for 10 more minutes about why I should get in the class I deserved, I gave up and took the other section. Thanks, Ass!

The University decided to get on the high-tech bandwagon and send out the student season-tickets by e-mail this year. Naturally, and I really should have seen this coming, the system failed and half the student body still hadn’t received their tickets by today, two days before the season opener. I called the box office to ask them to manually e-mail me my tickets (which they should be able to do, right?), and they said I needed to go to the stadium and pick them up from will-call. “OK”, I said, figuring I could just stop by on my way home after class. WRONG! The line for will-call was out the door, with the wait to pick up tickets being around 3 hours long! I’m going to try again first thing in the morning and hopefully will have better luck.

As you can maybe tell, school hasn’t gotten off to a great start for me. I’m hoping the weekend will put me in a better mood. And just for the record, I guess it really isn’t Dr. Priebe’s fault that he can’t put me in the full section, its department policy. As the saying goes, don’t shoot the messenger, blah blah blah…