Archive for June, 2006

I hear you calling, voices are here again.

What a song. Anyway, so I’m just sorting out my module enrollment. I’ve made my choices to 110 of the 120 credits I need to make but I still have 10 credits in semester 2. I’ve ruled out doing an elective in another department as I really wanted to do film making but communications don’t offer any electives at all! I also considered thelogy and several other subjects (I even went to english to see if I could do a litery analysis type thing on films – I couldn’t).

So I’m down to three choices in computing…

• Bio-inspired computing
• Principles of corporate strategy
• Ethical issues in computing

The other stuff I’m doing is…

• Speech, audio and image processing
• Fundamentals of AI
• Introduction to computer graphics

Before I start, I just want to say I know that season is American and I really detest the fact they use season instead of series and always use series instead of season, it uses series on TV Forge but for this post I made an exception given that I think it is more appropriate. Anyway…

It occurs to me, that not only are we reaching the end of our first yeat at uni but really we are reaching the season finale for a show about our lives at uni. Not one that is ever broadcast on TV but it has episodes (events), plot arcs, a narrative, it seems to function very much like a TV show. Remember the episode where Fonze pulled, I got drunk or Fran guest starred? Classic memories.

So now the stage is set for the season finale. It has to be a big one, series always finish on a big one. Of which the stage is again set as we are drafting out our massive blow-out end of first year of uni celebration.

Of course what we really need is the will-they won’t-they couple to get together. But who is romance in the air for? Who will it suddenly appear to? Phil and Michelle? Me and Michelle? Me and some random girl? Sarann and Andy/John/Kieran? Becky and Fonze? Claire and Fonze? Claire and me? Maths Chris and B? If ever there was a will-they won’t-they couple I think it would be those two.

What will happen at the end of term? Life has been way to Hollywood for it to go by without any events. Me and some random girl would be great although, despite me having that in the list, there is no way it will happen. Not because I’m jaded or negative (which I am but that’s a different reason) but because it has to be two protagonists to the story. That is part of your basic outline of the teen drama.

Of course it could always be something more dramatic. While DC went the classic route, The O.C. went the still sterotypical but slightly off-track route of ending with a shock, in that case someone getting shot. That typifies the The O.C. for being a more modern teen drama though. Could someone get shot? Or at least beaten up? Confrontations coming to a head? It would have to be something between pre-existing characters. Fonze and Andy P at Wendy House maybe? It would be the very end of our end of year celebrations and so would provide a great last minute shock.

But then, I’m not sure I see this story goint down the route of The O.C., I think it’s far more a classic DC tale. That is what I have had my faith in over the years, I’ve always been a Dawson not a Ryan. Still, it will be interesting to see if anything goes down. Or whether I’m simply a true product of the Hollywood generation. Or perhaps both.

Doing some much needed washing at the moment so I’m probably not going to be in bed until like 2. Probably not good as I have to be up at like 8:30 tomorrow but I figured I was going to be very pushed to get my 8 hours in so if I was going to strain to get up I might as well make the most of it and make it a late night.

After lectures today we went to Hyde Park to hang around for a few hours (of which I took a break from to go into town and look for a job) and eventually we headed into DEC-10 to get some of the lab session done. I only did a bit of it but it’s a start :D. Then I headed back to Bod to get dinner and later returned to The Library for an evening of drinking.

It’s the start of another C lab session and none of the staff seem to be here. Ok, I’ve spotted one happy helper. Maybe the rest got killed, Drew said he would probably working as a happy helper but then Ash finished at 3 yesterday so maybe Drew has done the same thing. Once I get this done there is only another 2 days to go and then we have a whole weekend of partying. Except that there is not much good on this weekend. Although there is Friday Flock. Recent events with Becky mean pre-drinks at Fab may be off though and Janine has gone home today so our lead goth of the group won’t be around either.

I’ve been putting some thought into what I want to do this summer regarding Dawson’s Creek. As I’ve mentioned before I only have a few episodes left to watch and a lot of summer of which it will need to pull me out of bitter depressions. Therefore I think what I am going to do, given the gap since last watching it, is start again from the very beginning.

I was toying with the idea of restarting series 6 anyway as I can’t remember trhe exact context of what was happening (I know pretty much what was happening but not all the fine details) but I think, given I have a three month summer, a total restart would be the best option.

I’m itching to start it now to be honest though. I was about to but I’ve just glanced up at my DVD shelf and realised that I only actually brought series 6 with me. I might watch some X-Files or Scrubs or something tonight, I’m up for a bit of TV even though I have to be up in a little under 8 hours. Actually I might re-watch Pirates of the Caribbean or the Family Guy movie. So many choices.

I want a t-shirt that says the following…

include <single_guy.h>

Person Chris = new Person("Chris");
if (Chris.location != "Bondi Beach Bar"
&& Chris.location != "Quilted Llama"){
    Chris.dead();
}

And on the back…

Compiler error: line 4

Found: )

Expected: && Chris.location != "Wendy House"

Bondi last night was awesome. Sarann told me it was my turn to get drunk and for them to carry my home given it’s usually the other way round so I ventured into the world of cocktails which was fun. Didn’t get to bed till like 4:30 though and Michelle woke me up at 9:00 so I’m not doing too well for sleep right now.

Holy crap. Particle Gallery has 3,379 points on HotScripts! It’s because it’s only been up like a day, maybe less but wow. My other scripts are like 5-7, with Particle Links, the really popular one almost reaching 50. I can see it taking a dramatic dive down and I guess my other scripts could have done this at first but still, “cool!”

I’m quite proud to say I managed to use the following phrase in conversation.

If I wanted to see a man eat an orange, I would have taken the orange eating class

Because that is what our first lecture on C/C++ consisted of. There was a lot of other stuff in there too but it’s hard to focus for 2 hours. Then we headed off for pool, drinks and food at the Quilted Llama. Instead of me going to town and looking for a job. Hmm.

I just went down for breakfast and granted I got up maybe 10 minutes earlier than normal but when I walked in there, there was a girl sat down eating and one person just leaving. Then two other people arrived, the girl left and then I left. So for tha total time I was down there I saw 4 other people using the refectory. Out of 700 of us. I guess nobody has to be up this early so even the people left aren’t coming down to breakfast.