Posted
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:08:01 GMT
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I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, but decided that I would wait until I got my first impressions over and done with. As many of you know, I have served as bar bit…...... errrr…... social representative for the Computer Science Society 8 of the last 12 months. It did have its good points (and plenty of its bad). However, I am glad to let everyone know that those days are behind me. I am now no longer in charge of running social events, leaving most of my Friday and Saturday nights officially free now. Nope, no more Social Rep Sean, instead, you know the current President of the Computer Science Society.
At this time, I would like you all to hold on to your congratulations at the moment. Early into the term, I have had the following said about society: “At one point society was well respected by the student population, but now it has a bad reputation of not caring”. Harsh words to be sure, but nothing I haven’t actually thought myself.
It is my goal to clean up this reputation to a degree and encourage a greater degree of communication and productiveness between groups and individuals. A serious undertaking to be sure, but someone has to do it, right? I hope that I will prove to be an effective leader and inspire the next generation of productive society members. I do, as always, have a plethora of ideas. How many of them actually get accomplished…......... let’s just say I have my hands full.
Society has always been about actually DOING things. In the past, we have managed to do them quite well. With a lot of work (not to mention a degree of luck), we’ll get back onto that track once more (and be worthy of the A level Society of the year award again next year).
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Posted
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:18:38 GMT
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Tags humor
I normally don’t do this, but I came across this joke and found it very amusing. You can find this blonde joke here.
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Posted
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:35:10 GMT
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Tags family, travel
Back from 10 days in the sticks of Ontario for Christmas with my family. While it did have its ups and downs, it was pretty interesting and much better overall than my last visit home. My flight to Ontario was the best flight I have ever had through Toronto. I like how Air Canada has fixed things so I don’t have to run from terminal 1 to terminal 3 and go through security again.
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Saw a lot of people while I was back. Between the regular Christmas day festivities and bouncing back and forth between various relatives I also managed to see some old friends from high school. Most of this occured on one event, called the Glencoe Gong Show, a yearly invite to dinner that started out with three of us 4 years ago and has grown to almost 20 people out of a graduating class of 62. Most of these people I haven’t seen in almost…..... 5 years now. It was interesting to hear what they have been up to and where they are now. Many are actually working on their graduate degree. One actually has a 7 month old son. It puts some things in perspective (almost done that undergrad degree….... almost…... almost…...)
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Posted
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:15:36 GMT
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Tags reflection
We are now in the end of times. The end of classes, the end of a term, the end of a year. In 12 hours I will be in the air traveling to Ontario to spend Christmas with my family. 10 days of health appointments, visiting people I haven’t seen in 2 years, and of course, sleeping in.
It will also be a time of reflection. I personally feel that I have done a lot this year, whether it be all the work I did community wise (Society, TigerEvents), bringing up my GPA (almost where I want it to be. We’ll see what this term does to it), job wise (Satlantic = best job I ever had), and social wise (too many examples to count, but most importantly, all the cool people I now consider friends).
It has been a busy, yet fulfilling year. Let’s see if we can top things in the new one.
Catch you all on the flip side.
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Posted
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:36:03 GMT
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So today I celebrated my birthday. And by celebrated, I mean, kinda woke up, said ‘oh, right, it’s my birthday’ and then kinda went on as normal.
So here is to 23 successful years of my one year plan. May the upcoming year be just as successful.
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Posted
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:57:44 GMT
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Tags gaming, social
There are some periods where a guy just has to have some fun. This weekend was one of those times.
While the weekend did start off with a 7-10pm Networking final worth a third of my mark, I believe (as I always do) that I did pretty well overall. We’ll see when the marks finally come in, but that is neither here nor there.
So anyway, fun. After Networking, a group of us got together for what has become more or less a weekly poker game. Texas Hold-em with a $5 buy in. We usually play at least 3 games, which usually prove to be entertaining. While I don’t win every round (if I did, I would lose my invite. No one likes to lose all the time after all), I have been doing well enough over the times I have played to not be in debt, and to continue playing. Add in the fact that there is usually a bunch of alcohol around, and you have yourself a good evening. This Friday was also the night of the first snowstorm of the winter. Which resulted in no cabs for me and eventually playing video games until the wee hours of the morn until I could get a lift. What happens when a person’s internal alarm clock wakes them up between 7 and 8 and they don’t get home until after 6am? Not very much in the way of sleep. Worth it? You betcha.
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Posted
Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:21:37 GMT
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As time goes on, I feel that I should give this, my little piece of the internet, a real home with a real domain name. A place where I don’t have to worry too much about anything. A place where I can actually see my own log files. A place where I can actually have more than one mysql account that has my name. But, honestly, I have no clue on a) what hosting services are good (though I could get this baby hosted on the Dal-ACM production server and get all of the above). b) What domain name to get. Since I want it to be somewhat professional, and my name is already gone six ways from Sunday, I am aimlessly kicking ideas around.
Anyone have any thoughts/comments either way?
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Posted
Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:34:40 GMT
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Tags acm, dal, tigerevents
Last week, Oliver and I were interviewed by the Dalhouse Gazette regarding TigerEvents, my.dsu.ca and Dal-ACM related items. The original plan, at least to my understanding, was that there would be a small blurb this week, with a larger article in the new year. I was not, however, expecting the article that actually was produced. Unfortunatly, I have to agree with several individuals that felt that it was poorly written and misleading. I don’t have any explanations, but thought that I would try to rewrite things so that they were clearer.
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Posted
Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:37:22 GMT
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Snowball wasn’t bad all things considering. Sure the chicken was dry, the dean forgot what awards he was supposed to present, my end of year slideshow crashed, and the place was apparently too dark and none of the award presentation photos came through clear. But in the end, people said they enjoyed themselves, that my speech wasn’t too shabby, and that they wanted a copy of my slideshow to take a look at it.
And once all my work was done, I could luxiriate in a Friday night off, drink, and dance.
It was fun, but I am oh so glad I don’t have to plan that ever again.
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Posted
Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:51:31 GMT
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Tags humor
Today, someone mentioned that all disputes in the Computer Science Building should be settled through battle on the beams suspended over the atrium. This individual also went so far as to state that this was a traditional mode of challenge on a certain mailing list in the past (which remains to be seen). Obviously, I missed out on quite a bit in the past here, but I feel it might be worthwhile to revive this tradition.
However, a few changes:
Install a cross beam (or two) in between the two central beams already there. Then combatants can start of on their own beam without arguments of who steps out first. Additionally, this would allow individuals to jump from beam to beam, thus hightening the overall entertainment value.
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