Pug’s Place

Last night I beat Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic as a light Jedi (thanks, Jay!!), since I really didn’t want to be tempted to play it during the semester. It’s a very cool game, with a very addictive story line. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes RPGs. Highly. So cool…

With that out of the way I was prepared for the start of classes today. I’m taking:

1. Mathematical Probabilistic Statistics
2. Computational Linear Algebra
3. Data and Algorithm Structures
4. The Glory that was Greece

I’ve been to the first three on that list; TGtwG is Wednesday evenings. Initial impressions are all good. The statistics course is not a rehash of my statistics last semester, but it also should not be hard for me anymore (for those joining late, I took a difficult ‘introduction’ stat course in the spring: Engineering Statistics). It’s all about games of chance, baby… Linear Algebra is a “this is heavy math. Here’s a programming language. Let’s make a computer solve a system of 20000 equations very quickly. Hurray!” course. I’m sure there will be plenty of normal math problems too, but having a focus on computer stuff is nice for me. Data and Algorithm Structures is taught by the chairman of the CS department and should be another difficult in-major class for me. Difficult to remain awake in, that is. I kid, I kid!

There’s another rain storm coming into town now… stopping me from getting dinner… I guess it’s soup again for me tonight! We’ll see, it’s a small storm. Though they’re getting hail 20 miles east of here…

Speaking of storms, I decided this afternoon that I needed a radar picture on my cell phone. Sprint provides such a service for $5 a month, but I’m cheap. So I replaced theirs with a very small shell script. If you live in Gainesville, that updates every 30-ish minutes and is small enough to display perfectly on at least my web-enabled phone. Feel free to bookmark it on your cellphone if you want.