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Here's your update Matt and CJ:

So Wednesday at 2AM or so the fire alarms went out after a power outage and then a return of power. It was very annoying. My sleeping patterns have been off for too long.

Trench coats incite violence. I shall be more weary of my trench-coat bearing friends. I could easily see them concealing weapons.

I've done a complete 180 turn in web design. I used to design based on IE 4.0/5.0 rendering. Now I design primarily for Netscape or whatever hideous browser I'm using. I just thought it was neat that there was a time when I didn't care if it didn't work in Netscape.

UIUC dropped from 5th to 185th most wired dorm. I could go on and on about how much the network here sucks. Now I can correct all the administrators when they say we are one of the most wired dorms in the nation.

You know what's funny? Replying to very old email from Matt's Script Archives. People ask really easy questions. I don't even know PERL that well.

Here's another something from J-Weed:

Jawed: why am I publicizing this shit like a mor*n? Dave : Yeah, real publicizing. Do you want me to put this on ftmax.com? Jawed: yea

Actually, speaking of publicizing... Matt and CJ found a journal of someone's in the basement... I could transcribe it here.

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Trenchies.

I find this disaster that has scattered the news so fast very disturbing. These people sound like my friends from highschool, except my friends would not kill and weren't neo-Nazi's. Very, very sad. Everytime a shooting like this occurs, I wonder why in this country? Only this country. We are messed up beyond belief.

No more Dave for today.

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You really should eat your vegetables.

Frisbee is really cool when played in the hallways. Well until Jawed cuts your head off. Or as the case may be, until the frisbee shatters.

I got this email regarding the National Gas Out on some day like the 30th of this month. Basically don't buy gasoline on this one day as a boycott. The reasoning seemed stupid. I don't think even we pay that much for gasoline. At least relatively. We pay $1.50 at the most? I know India pays a lot more. Yet in most situation bottled water costs more. We never complain about the price of Evian. So yeah, I don't think that there are that many people on the Internet who will be persuaded enough to not buy gas if they currently buy gas on a daily basis. The reality of the matter is people don't need to drive that much. I know this, because I don't drive at all. There are specific cases where driving is a necessity but Personal Rapid Transit is a real cool idea and just might work:)

Being a math major is cool. Like after a brief training in formal logic I feel that everything that people do must have some logic behind it to be worthy. Logic just gets rid of doing stupid things. Of course I don't always do logical things. Like sometimes I type TTTTTTT over and over TTTTTT in the midTTTTdle of words too.

This weekend seems longer than most. Scott Hughes visited Friday. I talked with Caroline early Saturday morning. I saw Heathers (which is a whacked movie). I did homework. Well it seems like I had an extra day somewhere.

A lot of people have really bad study habbits. Like they can't concentrate for long periods of time. These are the same people who study with the TV on. Which doesn't make sense, I mean, your mind only wants to deal with one stream of information at a time. Well that is if you are focussed.

Here is a joke from Matt's roommate, Jawed.

Q. How are you supposed to pronounce ether? E-THer or eth-er?
A. Either.
Best Joke I heard in a long time.

Note: I plan on rewriting the journal interface once more. It has a lot of internal problems that I dislike. That and pair Networks recommends it:)

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MSA turns 20.

Happy Birthday Matt!

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An update for all ages...

I saw Bullworth the other day. I liked it. Despite it not depicting blacks in the best light. Then again, I should like these things, because according to some people I am racist (along with most of my floor). See it if you have not yet. You may or may not like it. You may see it and then bitch about what a bad movie it is, but I don't care.

I got the position as a NetTech (Rhymes with TeX). I'll tell you more as I find out about it. It pays about a dollar more than my regular job. I think I need to work really hard and get a raise:)

Speaking of money... I used to have this idea that I needed to make a lot of money. Then I realized that is useless and it is what everyone tries to do. Everybody tries to make this enormous nest egg. Well I think I'll make a safe nest egg, but rather than making it grow and grow, I will only try to make more money if I need it. So like let's say if I want to start a project, only then will I say okay I need so much money now I'll try to get money for it somehow. Maybe this is what people actually do, but they always say that they want to make tons of money. I see no benefit in tons of money unless you know what to do with it.

A few nights ago Matt and Kristine kidnapped me from DCL so I wouldn't get raped.

Last night I was pissed off and wanted to kill someone, can you guess who?

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Target is sweet.

There were a few problems with the Matrix. The first is if the agents knew that Neo was the one, why didn't they kill him? I mean, why didn't they disconnect him from the Matrix and then kill his body? There is also the problem with the self image. Isn't it odd how Neo looks just like he did in the Matrix? Or how Morpheus looked like himself in the Matrix? Trinity is no different. Also note the whole love "thing" that was thrown in was total crap. The subway seen had everyone saying "Pick up the damn phone." The resurrection was silly too.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a good movie. It teaches us an important lesson: Image is something. When they entered the matrix, they chose to look decent they chose to wear sunglasses. Those are things that make us look cool. Looking cool is very important. Something that is done well is better appreciated if it has points for style. When Neo fights, he fights so it looks cool. Very important.

I applied to be a NetTech at Allen Hall and surrounding residence halls. I find out by the end of this week whether I become one or not. Should be interesting.

On my concept of being portable, there is the issue of bonds to friends. Sometimes we create the wrong types of bonds with friends. Dependency bonds. This is where we are so accustomed to their companionship that we depend on their being around in order to function. Very silly, but sometimes detrimental. Like what happens if the friend leaves somewhere, dies, or whatnot? Of course, people will still make these friendships. It's something Molly and I have developed for several years. I develop it with a lot of people that I to whom I grow "attached." So it's something that should be forged sparingly.

Anyway, I'm tired of that topic for tonight. Next topic is majors. I have a good friend in my Math and Speech Com class and we tend to discuss stupid people. In our math class there are people who are possibly Math/CS majors who just don't belong in math. They don't enjoy doing the math or learning about it. At least in class that's the impression you get. Additionally they do poorly on tests. It's a sad thing. You sometimes wonder why people just settle for majors.

The other thing I hate is people who are in CS or even in the College of Engineering just because they want a good job. Getting a good job does not mean anything if you don't like what you major in. Engineering may be the best thing on campus but it certainly is not worth doing if you aren't into engineering. I guess a lot of people do CS because it pays well or because they are good at using a computer (whatever that means). Those people should go to hell. When they graduate from U of I, they will have jobs and they will be the people who slow down society. They have no true love for Computer Science, but rather a love for money. They will do as little as possibel to be in this major. Whereas the real CS majors work day and night coding and learning things on their own to become very good at what they love, computing.

Enough ranting for one day. Target would be sweet if you lived there.

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India Night

Caroline and I went to a terrific event put on by the Indian Students Association, India Night. If any of you have been to any Indian events with me (Molly, Adam, KT, etc) you probably can agree with me that the sound is terrible. The sound was done fairly well here. As was the programming guide and most importantly the dances. I saw a few of my friends perform and they all did very well.

In other news, with my ethernet restored and my sound enabled, I am no longer a grumpy little CS major. I have a few scores to settle. Samba (networking to Windows computers) is yet to be mastered, ripping CDs from my SCSI drive is not yet working (may work after a reset, but I don't want to do that). My microphone recordings sound like "ass." Videoconferencing is not yet implemented, etc. My primary focus is figuring out something so I can get the video camera working and making the microphone less "ass" sounding like. Then I can talk to the girl.

Academically I'm feeling a bit out of the loop. Math is getting slightly devilish. CS 173 is following suit. CS 110 Java is out there as well. Physics is troubling me with Torque. I think I can handle them all though.

Well I've got to go pour some lambs blood on my door now, so goodnight.

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The things that CS classes influence you to do.

You may have noticed that the updates are getting sparse and few. I find myself having less time each day to complete my homework, work and this web site. I am also running out of money to support the site. So this may be the last update for a while until I can muster enough time to really post my thoughts, etc. That will probably be in the summer. Also this depends if I can get enough money to support the site. I'll see what happens. Thanks everybody. If you have more questions, just email me.

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KDWTF

Hi.
I run Linux now.
I have no customized kernel.
Which means no sound.
I am sad.
If I get the sound working...
And the kernel configured propperly...
My status will change.
My network connection has been messy for the last week as well. At UI, CS Majors have problems when the network becomes the notwork.

This is also the first update since being back. It's nice here in Urbana. Very springy weather. I wish that girl were here.

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