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That means Halloween if you didn't know. And I didn't do anything. Not that I usually do.
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Yay, I can pick up my paycheck!

And professor thought my first release was worth a 3, which means I'm doing good. I actually thought I'd have gotten a 1, which would've meant I was behind.

Midterm today sorta sucked I think, at least compared to the first one.
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Cold wind

Stupid shuttle craps out all the time

Spent a couple hours talking to Xia outside her house about life, death, and relationships. Interesting stuff. It's actually kind of basic. It's a lot easier to live life with a very self-centered attitude, not caring about other people, except for what they can do for you. But it feels wrong, possibly because it's ingrained into us (genetically and memetically) because it's bad for society and if everyone did that, society would collapse, and so on. But at the same time, if you can get away with it... game theory stuff I guess.

They wanna go out this weekend since people are more free after the past 3 or so weeks of deadline after deadline.

Oh, and I got my paycheck!
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Go get it.
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Wow, the Safeway here closes at 12. Then again, it IS smaller...

Oh, and it's been drizzling here recently. Cold.
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Heh, wow.
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This last book was a lot shorter. Saw too many spoilers before reading it though, so I already sort of knew the ending. Tsk tsk, inconsiderate people.
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Yay, did well on this other class's midterm as well.

It's raining all the time now. Sucks.
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Mmm, more forgotten updates.

Having to get up early sucks.
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Oh yeah, yay for the Catholic Church! This is good news considering some of the stuff the new Pope had been implying.


Evolution in the bible, says Vatican

Also, BOTH my professors have mentioned Creationism now (in a dismissive manner). Still not sure if it's 'cause this is a private/Jesuit university, or if it's because of idiotic things like this happening right now (they even redefined science). Anyone else in other universities having the same experience?
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All I know from the newspapers and magazines is that there was some recent election and propositions and blah blah blah. But it wasn't something that people actually talked about. Must not be a big thing.
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Another good midterm back, Xia had the highest grade, and I was a few points behind, so yeah.

The problem of course, is with the projects that are still left, along with the finals.

Either grad school is easier, or this school's easier, or I'm actually doing better.
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Well, registered for classes today.
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Darn, my going to bed early only lasted one day. Rather nice to wake up very early in the morning naturally instead of being forced awake by an alarm.

I need some new usericons, I end up just using the same few icons now.
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Mmm, had a nightmare that I found out I hadn't done a project until the day it was due while I still thought I had two weeks left.

Been remembering more dreams recently.

My torrents has been revitalized with Bitcomet 0.60. I'm assuming it has to do with the Distributed Hash Tables they added in 0.59.
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Hmm, I guess another project done. And yet another looming again.
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Now I'll be colder when the winds come.

Walked around Clement looking for a good place, and was surprised to see that there's around six different places to get a haircut within around the same number of blocks.

Hmm, and after what, two months, I finally realize I can adjust my headphones so they don't feel like they're too big for my head.

Music's addicting. I think listening to music causes me to go to sleep later as I just end up waiting for the current song to finish, and then wanting to listen to the next song.
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Been experimenting around with these online video services. Google Video basically sucks now. They use a Flash player and compress your video to crap quality. But it IS good if you just want really fast video and don't care about quality at all.

Veoh on the other hand, offers your video at whatever quality you give to them. But you need to use their client, which is SLOW. But they have a nice link you can show to people.

I'll have links to my results on both services sometime later.

Oh yeah, Clement really does have a lot of stuff. Found a passport photo place there so I didn't have to walk all the way south of the park. The only thing is, the type of stores there aren't the kind to get listed online, so you don't know what's there without actually walking around looking for it. Always a gamble, because it may not exist.
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Uh oh, I'm going to bed too late.

So walked around all day doing various errands. Did NOT pick up my paycheck because after wandering around for over half an hour, I *finally* found that new office, which was actually *underground* level 2 not upstairs level 2.

CS Pizza Night social. $6 and had 6 slices, 3 breadsticks, and some drinks. Good deal. It was also my professor's birthday. Submitted an entry to a contest, dunno if I'll win. Seems like me and the other person (might be more) both used a program to generate the answers, which I guess they kinda expected us to, since this is a CS social anyway. It was to make up as many words as possible from the letters in "COMPUTER"

Left around 9, but ended up talking to Xia about life again for around 3 hours standing outside my dorm. Mainly talking about marriage this time, i.e. her and her friends experience, general thoughts on differences between current generations vs. past generations, etc. Meanwhile, my roommate was entertaining two girls in our room, who were still there when I finally went in.
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Well, this was the video stuff I was talking about a couple days ago.

Low-quality flash version - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=touhou

High-quality XVID version (requires Veoh client) - http://appserver.veoh.com/mediaDetails.html?permalinkId=s2360
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Add more features for Monday basically.
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Alrightie, my project now has just about enough features to fulfill the criteria for a B grade, so I have around 2.5 more weeks to add extra features and hope for an A.
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Well, I think I'm on a 2 level (ok), possibly a 3 (better than others), based on what I heard/saw of other people's project.

Mmm, almost thanksgiving! :D
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http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

Wish I'd discovered this sooner. Now the text on my screen doesn't look so fuzzy anymore. Just having ClearType enabled isn't actually enough, as there are a few extra options you can set in there that can make it better.
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On impulse, Xia and I decided to go out and eat something together. Never let two indecisive people pick a restaurant. At first we were going to go to this Chinese place called Bay Fung Tong, then we wanted to try this all-you-can-eat sushi place that was supposed to be good and close by but couldn't find. So we went back to my place to google the address. We follow that address, and end up at that restaurant. Err what? Guess the place changed. But we kept looking around for other stuff to eat, but we couldn't decide, so we eventually narrowed them down through a series of rock paper scissors (I suppose we could've just flipped a coin, but this was slightly more fun). And ended up at that first restaurant again.

Food was plentiful. 4 plates for 2 people is a LOT, so we had leftovers, but the price wasn't bad, especially for dinner. Talked some about homosexuality, and its role in evolution and society, among other stuff.

We're going to see if we can make this a weekly thing, since we both want to try restaurants around here, but eating out at restaurants is not the kind of thing one usually does alone, as it's kinda depressing and eating out with someone generally adds a bit to the value which offsets the price a bit as well.

Got work tomorrow still... so bed now.
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Brr, it turned cold on Thanksgiving.

Working on Thanksgiving day is pointless, there's like almost no one in the labs.

Uncle came back this time for thanksgiving. Oddly enough, my aunt and uncle thought I lost weight this time.

June was also here for Thanksgiving.

They now have cable TV, so we spent most of the time watching TV.

We ate very little turkey this time, only like one leg piece plus a little part from the opposite side, despite us having one extra person. It might be because we started eating around 5:30 instead of 8:00 last time. Or maybe there were more other dishes.

Slept over, decided not to go with them at 5AM for Black Friday shopping and slept in late, ate leftovers, was given leftovers to bring home, and then came back. Very busy in SF. Probably because of Black Friday.
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Back to work....
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'nuff said.
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Class cancelled today because professor was sick.

But I still had to go to work.

In the rain.
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Walking back from class, we were both hungry, so we decided to eat there again. Well, we actually decided again with rock paper scissors.

Only $14.50 this time with tax and tip with 3 dishes, which we managed to finish. Not bad.

Professor explained project today, so it's no longer so completely confusing figuring out how to do it.

Oh yeah, Firefox 1.5 Final is released!
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