So it would appear I'm not actually done and I have to write a summary report for my company and have a meeting with them on Thursday. I was really pissed off about this but I'm more chilled now and not too fussed about it
Hungover today, played more 360, went to campus, saw Dan and talked to Ed. Drove home pretty late, my bad, enjoyed it though
One more hoop to take the hope....
People who are awesome:
- Rex for taking the time to proof read my work.
- Rachel for proof reading AND giving me her ipod shuffle!!
So after 4 hours sleep I'm up again for the hand in of the century. There appeared to be no Saran, however me and dan evaporated to the long lounge for lunch. Then I went and played a large amount of Call of Juarez. Met the crew at the Impy at 4, some drinks and Ed randomly turned up. Then dan showed up, then everyone went home, except me and stu, and we drank our sorrows in the timepiece and got some kebabs.
Please use my body while I sleep
To be honest I'm unsure of the exact details of what happened today. I did spend quite a lot at the coop to sustain me through. I actually finished by 4am though, bonus to me. So sleep->
Stats:
7800 words
32 pages
10 tables
Geeky Things I've done Today:
- Timed the speed of execution of my implementation of the A* algorithm
- Synchronised my work folder with a remote folder on my desktop at home
- Streamed the england match on my computer and then broadcast it on the uni network so me and stu could circumnavigate the crazy ass proxy settings on campus and watch here via dual screen on our lappys
- Streamed the IT crowd to a projector
- Drooled over IronKey
My teeth are fuzzy.
Got back in at 1.30am. 6800 words.
Still behind, sent to Rex and Rachel to see what they think.
I'm in appalling shape at the moment.
Idea of the day: Hoovering, for my floor is totally covered in grass.
Woke up a bit late today and damn facist builders were drilling into my soul. An unfortunate set of events, so I showered and departed to campus. I am literally spending, at maximum, an hour of awake time in lafrowda a day. Anyway, I went to the long lounge where I proceeded to have an extremely yummy ham ploughman's salad. Then came the rest of the day where I spent most of it in the library.
At around 7 I traversed to sainsbury's in my wonder car and bought 25 quids words of junk food. Including doughnuts, cold curry, multigrain hula hoops, pain au chocolate, red bull, fruit & nuts and bombay mix. All to feed me over the weekend. Man I'm gonna need some fruit. An odd police helicopter hovering over uni and town for most the evening, prolly due to some escaped prisoner. Apparently prisoners escaped in march 07 and in Oct 06. Some guy removed 5 bricks from his wall and jumped out. Unfortunately the drop was 30ft and he broke his ankle. I think junk food is making me fat. Found a new toilet in Harrison, best layout yet.
So, my attempt to calculate the amount of words I need to do per section failed majorly as I added it all up to 7000 instead of 8000. On a related note, I really can't be assed with this anymore, I'm finding it dull and I have no direction. Plus I'm trying to write this "slanty" to look cool, but it's just turning out illegible.
I'm on 4282 words. I'm flagging though. I'm about 1700 away from my word count projections but I think I need to break and sleep. Re-arrange my thoughts and plan of lyrical attack. I'll go print out what I've just done.
Anecdotes, platters, and inspirational quotes...
After just managing to wake up, I traipsed onward to campus, where unto my great surprise, the long lounge was open. One copy of Empire and an Indian platter later it was time to hit the department. Weather was all sunny by this point and I set up camp in the library. After some rough attempts at work for a few hours I hit the shop, grabbed some baguettes and headed home to pick up my work folder. This was in a vein attempt to find some decent feedback from my past work. Unfortunately, as always, this was not so.
It's currently 17.47, I'm on 2739 words and need to reach 6000 to be on target for tomorrow. I also have to not use all my words on my intro...
Interesting anecdote: Was walking to look and some dude scared the shit out of me.
Films To See:
Bourne Ultimatum: Now
Assassination of Jesse James: 26th Oct, 07
Superbad: 14th Sept, 07
Death Proof: 21st Sept, 07
Across the Universe: 28th Sept, 07
Planet Terror: Novemeber, 07
I am Legend: 4th January, 08
Iron Man: 2nd May, 08
Southland Tales: 08
Covering our tracks
Well after locking myself out of the library, things went from bad to worse as I wasted the rest of the night coding a GP to find the shortest combination of numbers to try every code on a door code. After this I realised I actually still have a co-evolving GA to implement for my project. Shit.
We're breakin' free
Alcohol is stupid for Sleep. Got up at like 12. Pottered around. Randomly had a presentation feedback meeting with Zunic and apparently everything was good. Nothing bad. And I answered his 1 question with skill, wit and a preplanned answer. Slammin'
I'm again attempting to survive on sandwiches alone. My heart hurts. I've constructed a simple, yet effective plan of work to finish my write up:
Balance Brought Forward: 1000 words
Wednesday: 2000
Thursday: 3000
Friday: 2000
Saturday: References and Proof Read
Sunjday: Proof Read.
I do need to go get food sometime though... hmm.
I'm also listening to some grime. Though its not too productive for work, it might be time to bring Norah out again. mmm Norah. I should get her sheet music. From her house. And possibly her underwear. From her body. Excellent.
Surprises, electrical goods and meat of various sizes
Approaching the pedestal with a good portion of nervousness, just as I was setting up, my company dude waltzes in and my heart swings into double step. Not out of lust I add. Unfortunately, I had not planned for a water expert to be present as this foils my normal tactic of glossing over details so I don't say anything wrong. Even though I was visibly a shaking wreck, and was unable to focus on my neatly designed post it notes, apparently everyone said I was alright. After celebratory chatting, I cruised down to starbucks with Gordon and we pondered the world along with another caffiene hit. Then I drove dan dan icelandic dan to currys to get a tv and we had a cup o' tea and a few min of Die Hard before heading off to the Imperial. Here, a small portion of merryment was had and then I stupidly got a kebab. Ah well.
Food eaten today:
Bacon & Brie Baguette
Chip shop chips
Kebab meat and chips
Well I woke up on time, and after a shower I looked only slightly bedraggled. Coffee maybe my only haven. Had a dream last night that involved immense pain in my elbow and I think I was awake for most of it... I also had a dream where Kiean came to the department to work, then it was a fancy ball and cheerleader from Heroes, some other hot girl and a friend fancied me. I had to choose but nearly messed it up. I think (and hope) I chose hayden.
The main issue at the moment is my choice of t-shirt. I've chosen a blue t-shirt as it's colour is non-confrontational, however, the slogan on it is "Burn your computer". Now this may 1) appear that I'm trying too hard, 2) Be a happy and humourous choice 3) Sound like I care not for the field of computer science. Then again it may have just been my only clean top....
Acai smoothie time.
Things I am looking forward to:
- Partying after hand in
- Tidying my room
- Playing Bioshock
- Re-establishing communication with the world.
- Having time to exercise
- Having time to goto the beach
- Blogging
- Reading
- Guilt free "end of days"
- More lickin'
- Digesting the ~20 new artists I need to check out
- Brushing my teeth more
- Possibly expand on SOM Project?
- To be able to write continuous prose without having to repeat the same words for "consistency".. unless it's "awesome".
So I just came back from campus at 11pm, my presentation still not finished and it's at 1pm tomorrow. Remembered to take recycling out or we would get in trouble. Promptly got locked out for 10 minutes. Then had shower, set some experiments running and now sleep at midnight to get up at 5am?! to finish presentation and learn it. It's all about kamikazing to the nearest deadline and be damned the consequences.
At least I'm getting some results I can twist into something might be acceptable. Must remember to work after presentation. Last night I stayed up late reading the Prestige by Christopher Priest. Very good book, quite different to the film. Though the film's plot might be slightly better. God I hope 5 hours sleep is enough.
Mind numbing, hum drumming.
Woken up. Showered. Ate a healthy living curry. Disgusted a girl who saw the state of my room. Ritazza.
In an interesting twist to my life, it turns out I failed to charge my bluetooth headphones. Old school cable time.
Day 3 of Radio Silence. The Enemy is closing in and we're far underprepared. Our tactics are sound, but it looks unlikely we can execute them in time. I'm tempted to utilise homophonic sounds to decrease actual contact time to safe limits. After careful deliberation it would appear our resources are below expectations, but with little hope of reinforcements we must continue regardless of the complexity of the task ahead. We've already lost many, and I fear I may crash and burn within the next day. Morale is low.
Today I have mostly been battling for CPU time and discovering new and innovative ways to make up graphs. Our lack of Linux boxes is disturbing.
Geeky things I have done that are awesome:
- Running a VNC server so I can remotely control my pc
- Running a SCP server so I can remotely download files
- Writing a taskbar "to do" list manager in C#
- Re-writing my random wallpaper selector in c#
- Writing a Regression, rule based genetic programming program in Java
- Getting a 3D virtual desktop manager for windows
- Implementing the A* path finding algorithm in c#
- Using 13 PCs at once, then demanding more
- Streaming my music collection across the web for myself