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yummy school
September 4th, 2003
i think this school year is great.. i’m taking two great classes mainly visual basic and perl.. they really really fit my need. OMG.. we are actually learning REGULAR EXPRESSIONS TODAY!! i’ve wanted to learn it for so long!! i can never dream that i can actually learn it in a class. i feel so happy altho it’s a graduate level course, it’s rather easy because it’s my interest. i’ll play with their windows ssi server see if i can write a simple blogging script in perl.
i start to reconsider the possibility of my life after i graduate.. so tomorrow i will talk to my advisor about the possibility of going to a graduate school. since i never thought about it before, i have no idea what would it be like.
The Teddy Bear Genius
August 27th, 2003
Hoo boy. Now I know everyone is familiar with the bright, adept and dignified colleagues that fill the aisles at school and constitute our vast workforce . . . :cough: NOT!! It amazes me that though I’m surrounded by blithering veggies every day, one special headcase always seems to shine through with new levels of idiocracy unparalleled by his/her peers.
I was scouting out my classroom for a computer course and eventually found it, and also found my instructor was waiting for the current class to conclude. She was at a table in a small lobby area near the classroom so I sat down with her, and soon after we were joined by another classmate.
This classmate was wearing old cruddy white tennis shoes, dirty frayed blue jeans, a dusty black T-shirt and an old faded Dallas Cowboys hat. The instructor asked his name and he told her it was easy to remember his name ‘Brian’ by his Cowboys hat that he wore every day. I looked at that thing which was probably crawling with bugs and tried to parallel ‘Brian’ with that hat. Quite frankly there was nothing that stood out about the guy except his repulsive odor.
Anyway, that’s not even the stupid thing he said.
He asks the instructor: “Have you seen the virus going around that puts a teddy bear on your screen that won’t go away?”
She replies: “Yes I’ve heard of it, it is actually a hoax. Did you get it in an email?”
Him: “Yeah, my dad sent it to me, he got the same virus!” starts laughing with blank look in his eyes. Small period of uncomfortable silence.
Instructor: “Well when you get those e-mails you probably shouldn’t open them.”
Him: “No matter how many times I clicked on the teddy bear he would not go away! I finally had to go to the Norton Anti-Virus web page so it could get rid of it!” Laughs heartily, and starts looking to the instructor for approval as if he was proud of his accomplishment. This was not even a REAL virus.
The instructor and I then share one of those uncomfortable moments of realization eye-contact that just communicated ‘Oh my god this guy is a complete chimp’ She then says, “Well time to go to the class room!” and departs before her sanity is completely broken. I just sat there and could not believe what I had just heard.
evil andy
August 25th, 2003
haha, surprise surprise… in my entire boring first day of the school, andy’s email is definitely one of the most amusing things happened. hehe.. i can’t believe i will start getting his emails again. that makes me excited LOL from andy:
This two hour time between classes sucks! At least there is a computer lab nearby my noon class. I have no excuse not to write emails and posts now :sniff: It’s cold in here too and there’s this 900lb girl looking at the internet and wiggling around and stuff. Oh yeah, she’s the LAB MONITOR! I should sit at the far end of the row of computers farthest away from the desk and say, “Hey my computer just crashed and I lost all of my files!” and when she waddles over there, squeezing between chairs, say, “oh nevermind its cool now!”
for the ENTIRE summer he’s been hot and has been making fun of how i’m always cold in the computer lab. he finally admitted he’s COLD. HAHA!
[geek talk]i think i actually like my programming language concept class. i mean the whole concept is very new. what all i’ve been learning so far are imperative and object orientated programming languages. now we are gonna talk about logical and functional languages like prolog and haskell. i think it sounds rather interesting. i want to see how they are done.[/geek talk]
i went to the visual basic class. i know it’s going to be rather boring for me BUT i really LOVE to learn about visual basic .NET framework so i can write programs like google toolbar hehe.. that’d be very cool 
back to school?
August 23rd, 2003
when does everyone goes back to school.. are there newbies for college 
school starts next monday for me, i am taking easy courses this semster:
civilization of asian: china
programming language concept (i heard it sucks tho XP oh well it’s required for cs, we will see)
programming with C
tentative: web programming (Visual Basic scripting web based)
i don’t know if the last one is worth paying for. i guess i have two weeks before i decide whether i want to drop it.
how productive was your summer?
August 20th, 2003
judging from what i’ve accomplished for the summer, i’m quite satisfied look at this post from 3 months ago. i gave myself a huge list of things i needed to do for the summer. and guess what? i finished most of them. WOW i’m so proud. let’s do a list check
- put the free trial for advertising back, maybe make it one day only
DONE!
- make a new layout for regretless.com that actually incorporates the ad banner
DONE! - altho i want a new one now 
- offer banner exchange service at dnw
DONE!
- offer simple counter service at dnw
NO - but don’t know if it’s necessary any more
- REDO the bookmarks for dnw. i need a much better script for that.
DONE! - well i got rid of it and replaced i with “plug yourself” XP
- UPDATE asian abuse to make it more useful (i need to add LOTS of info about how to handle abuse etc. so people can stop giving me crap!! arg, this has been bugging me so bad)
DONE!
- do something about dmb!! it’s dying…
DONE! - it’s alive again *hehe* and i had to close registration
- i want to write two hacks for b2: one is something that lists the commenters from your last blog entry in your post area for easy plugging. i think people will like this one since it’s like a trend now to plug commenters. two is a threaded commenting system like livejournal. this hack is gonna be a tough one. don’t know if i will have time to get to it.
BOTH ARE DONE! and are popular hacks *hehe*
- update DNW with more tutorials and also list all the tutorials by their descriptions etc. i think that site is very confusing. yuck.
DONE!
- i have this idea of a theme for pure essence that i want to implement.
HRM - i don’t remember what my idea was but i did add a couple of new themes
and on top of all that i made around $2000 for my tuition this summer. i am happy
OMG OMG OMG OMG VERONICA FINALLY GOT THE HUGE CAREBEAR I SENT HER LOOK!!! i’m so happy!!
WOOHOO
July 30th, 2003
woohoo!! i just finished a $700 project!! it was writing a complete shopping cart system (admin included of course) for a website. thanks to kasper for giving me this opportunity! i am so happy. it took me a total of 6 hours (i think) coz i’ve done something very similiar for echirps before. i just borrowed much of the code i’m glad i did a good job coding it the first time so when i borrowed the code, it made everything so much easier. i’m sooooo happy!! woohoo…
job babble
June 23rd, 2003
my work schedule for the next five weeks is 8-6 monday - wednesday. I chose those hours because i get paid for half an hour extra for opening and closing the lab. this means i get a total of 33 hours for working just three days of a week. that sounds too good, doesn’t it? i thought so too. but now i start to wonder whether it was a good idea. basically it’s getting harder and harder to keep myself awake during work. i think it would be easier if i were to get up at 7:30 everyday. now i sleep in from thursday - sunday and trying to be on schedule for the next monday is hard.. i probably have a nite gene. another thing i don’t like about the schedule is that i get home the same time andy does, that leaves me very little time to prepare for dinner. i still want to cook but i need more time. esp. when i want to martinate the meat and whatnot. oh well i think i have too much complaint about a lazyass job.
FINAL IS DONE!
May 16th, 2003
YESSSSS i finished my last final.. and we are going to camping tomorrow!! i’ve never done camping before. we will spend a nite there. i’m so looking forward to it!!!!
evolution LOL:
truly i’m confused
May 2nd, 2003
the person who didn’t offer me the position as a student web assistant at UI told me he’s interested in giving me contract works. he wanted me to call him if i am interested. i didn’t get a chance until today. he stated in the email saying the person he ended up hiring is someone who had ran an online company for the past year in UK. seriously, why would someone who runs an online company a year ago, comes to an university and applies for a STUDENT WEB ASSISTANT position?! but that is not even weird enough. when i called him(the employer) today he said he’d offer me $12/hour for graphic designing contract works. he wants my final product saved as a photoshop file. they will do the html part. from what i interpreted from the interview, he needs a graphic designer more than a programmer. now after he’s got someone who’s so impressively capable, he still has contract works for me? what is going on?! i’m truly confused.
i made more pixel adoptions!! tarepanda!
adopt them!
plagiarism
May 1st, 2003
i was looking thru my referrals and found many links to my drug legalization page from turnitin.com. hmm, was someone trying to plagiarize with my work and got found out? HAHA for whoever has done it. i’m glad the person got caught. but you know i never thought about that.. displaying my writings is very encouraging for plagiarism online.. drug legalization is such a common topic.. whoever takes the side i took can basically copy my entire speech and does 0 work for full credit if the person didn’t get caught. the worst is google would allow my writing to come up at the first page of their search. OMG someone just recently did that search and guess what? it’s from uiowa.edu!! HOLY CRAP.. someone from my own university might be copying my work and yet i have no way to know who it is. eek.. that’s terrible.
but i still want my writings be read by those who respect them. what should i do?!
KITTIES!
these are so cute. i stole them from kimi.. she always has the cutest kitties pictures
