Accomplished

Posted Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:36:39 GMT to Posted in ,

Picking up my mail today, there happened to be a big paper tube accompanying the regular catalogs/bills/junk. Even more curious, it was addressed to me. Odd…... I wasn’t expecting anything.

Inside was a letter from the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, as well as a sheet of paper that had the words Sean Smith and Citizenship Award in big, fancy lettering.

While I can’t say this comes as a COMPLETE surprise, the timing was somewhat unexpected. I knew Mike had written up a nomination form (and Mike, reading this letter, you obviously put in a lot), and that Jon and Mark had signed it, but the e-mail that requests nominations each term also states that “Students who are nominated for an award will be contacted by the Scholarship Committee so they can provide a résumé, transcript and any other information which they think the Committee should consider in its decision.” Now, I haven’t heard anything about it since I was told by my nominators that I had been nominated, and in fact, have been asked by some of them if I have heard anything, cause they hadn’t when the summer term nominations request went out.

In the end, I am honored to have been considered, and selected for this award. I would like to thank all of those who helped make this possible, including my nominators, and all of those who actually came out to the events I arranged.

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Transition

Posted Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:19:29 GMT to Posted in , Tags ,

So I decided to move from my old Livejournal to Wordpress.

Why? I feel limited by LJ’s options, I want the ability to script my own content as necessary. I want better options for visual presentation. I want more control. Wordpress wasn’t actually my first choice. Since I have been doing a bunch of Ruby programming as of late, I really wanted to give Typo, the Ruby on Rails blog software, a go. However, I also need a somewhat stable place to keep this thing, and torch is probably a teensy bit more stable than some of the other systems I have access to. As it doesn’t have Ruby or the Rails framework, PHP and Wordpress it was. (Since there are tools to convert straight from Wordpress to Typo, switching is still an easy option in the future).

The other reason is that I am becoming more focused and mature. No more of those drunken rants. No more angsty posts. No more barely understandable rambling. As I am changing, so is this blog.

Of course, this apparently messed up Planet CS when I started putting in backdated entries. Which is slightly odd since I would expect the aggregator to follow the PubDate tag correctly. Maybe it is just a caching thing and will fix itself in the next iteration.

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Weekend Amusement

Posted Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:14:21 GMT to Posted in , Tags

So…..... you are down at the Busker’s festival and come across a Much Music area where they have XBoxs and laptops sitting out in the open. What’s a computer geek to do? Obviously check out the laptops to see how much access they left.

Which is, of course, full access. So you browse around the hard drive, and right in the root directory is a folder entitled Partition_Magic_8.0_with_Serial. If only they had had internet access and I could have taken a screenshot. Way to go with that warez Much Music. I was amused, very amused.

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Buskers - Part 1

Posted Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:46:34 GMT to Posted in , , Tags ,

Halifax International Buskerfest is once again in motion. Quite a few interesting shows were performed this year. On the first day I went down, I basically ended up watching a series of finales, so I really don’t know how good the entire acts were. As always, the waterfront areas were PACKED with people.

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I'll Take Your Bad Joke And Raise You Another

Posted Sun, 01 May 2005 16:28:30 GMT to Posted in

So…. for those who haven’t heard/been told/figured it out, my post regarding my implant being broken was a lie, a sham, a fraud. Why, however, would I do an awful joke like that?

Well, to make a long story short, a group of my friends got together and decided to play an elaborate prank with all their blogs, staging a huge fight and generating many scathing comments.

Due to experience and intuition, I realized that this was a joke. Please note that me realizing that something is a joke, and letting someone get away with it are two VERY different things. So I concoted that post and watched what happened.

One person actually asked what the freak accident was. Unfortunatly, the first thing that popped into my head was a story of how I narrowly avoided being hit by a speeding vehicle, damaging my implant in the process (sorry I had to tell you that by the way).

So yeah, I showed up at a party on Friday, had my implant in my pocket, but not actually wearing it. I spent the first 30 minutes or so reading everyone’s lips. After that, I went into the kitchen, poured a drink, and then put my implant back on. No one commented on this transition, so as far as I know, no one caught on.

The joke continued into the next day, when I showed up at the CS building to help with an event. James Bowes came up to me and asked, very slowly, “Are you in lip reading mode now?” A little hungover, it took me a second to figure out what he was talking about, and then I laughed and explained the whole thing. He thought it was funny.

I apologize to anyone who is offended by this, but hey, I could have kept this under my hat and waited until like a 10 year reunion.

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Wow, I Didn't See That Coming

Posted Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:26:58 GMT to Posted in

Due to a freak accident, part of my implant is broken. Better yet, it happened after the offices I would call closed down. Due to the fact that parts come from AUSTRALIA of all places (I shit you not), it has taken parts up to two weeks to arrive before. That’s right, 2 weeks of deafness.

Not that it really matters I suppose, since everyone seems to be fighting.

First some of my best friends leave the city, and then the rest start fighting? Sounds like Ontario all over again. At the very least, this time I know I have prospects for employment in the states, instead of blindly trusting my senses and uprooting myself 3 provinces over.

Something to apply myself towards I suppose.

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How To Solve The CS Building's Cash Flow Problem

Posted Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:10:34 GMT to Posted in , , Tags

  1. Take over the new ‘Management’ Building next door once it is complete. It’s taller than ours and the management faculty is obviously not as important as us.
  2. Turn the current CS Building into an Urban Paintball field to generate revenue. I mean, think about how awesome it would be to do Couterstrike like missions with paintball guns in the CS Building.
  3. What about the management students? Well, they’ve gotten used to the management building already. What’s a few more years taking classes there?

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