Archive for August, 2004

Fellini’s Pizza Posted August 22, 2004 at 12:00 am

I ate at Fellini’s Pizza for the first time today with Titus. You generally get a lot of pizza for a pretty reasonable price. They even had my favorite topping, green olives. The price was right and the food was good, but the Fellini’s atmosphere can’t quite compete with the unique and varied stylings of the Mellow Mushroom.

Airport Posted August 20, 2004 at 12:00 am

I got a call at 7:15 thing morning; it was Titus and he was still at the airport. I showered and went to pick him up like the kind roommate-type person that I am. It sounds like he had a good time in Argentina.

More class impressions Posted August 17, 2004 at 12:00 am

Tuesday brings new classes and new challenges:

CS 4001
There’s one unfortunate girl and a bunch of geeky guys talking mostly about privacy and IP concerns. Looks like lots of group-based assignments.
JAPN 1002
Well, Suzuki-sensei is young and semi-cute, but I thought Matsushima-sensei was cuter. I’m still kind of lost, though things started coming back when we started doing introductions.
ECE 4006
The professor (Schlag) seems to have no aesthetic sense at all. His PowerPoint slides were nothing but black Times text and carriage returns on a white background. I do at least have a vague idea of what I want to do for a project.

acpstudios.net has finally been transferred to Go Daddy as of late this evening. I played with the site colors some more, but I’m still not entirely sure what I’m looking for.

First day of classes Posted August 16, 2004 at 12:00 am

This was the first day of classes for the Fall 2004 semester at Georgia Tech. This will be my ninth semester as a student here, and I am planning to graduate at the end of the semester in December.

I’ve tried to compile some of my initial impressions of my classes here:

HTS 2061
“Traditional Asia” seems like it could prove to be quite interesting as the focus is (not surprisingly) on China and Japan. There is a take-home final for this class. Fellow Japanese student Brooks-san is in this class as well.
INTA 2210
I went to the wrong classroom and ended up with HPS 1040 deja vu. Location corrected, the professor (Keene) is definitely British or some derivative. The entire grade seems to be based on a set of four essays of a rather short length. When I inquired about this, Prof. Keene said that he was trying to get students to focus on the most important things. Sounds good to me.
ME 3322
Another fellow Japanese student, Ronald, is in this class. The professor (Smith) mentioned something about group problem-solving that sounded unusual.
JAPN 1002
I’m rusty; what can I say? I was disappointed to see that the class is indeed being taught by a completely different set of professors. I’m told that one of the professors is very cute, though.

I made a late-night run to the Austell target to pick up a few more things for the apartment. It’s still a long way out there; I don’t know why I thought it might be any shorter. I was surprised that we actually seem to have a quicker route to the East-West Publix, where I used to do pretty much all my grocery shopping.

I also found a neat toy called AveDesk. It’s a small freeware app that will run ObjectDock docklets as stand-alone “desklets.” The end result is something much like Konfabulator for the Mac or the new Dashboard feature coming in the next release of OS X.

I also watched “Bakuretsu Tenshi” and updated a bunch of Debian packages on Freya.

New Firmware Posted August 15, 2004 at 12:00 am

The move-in continues… I installed the latest public release of the Satori firmware from Sveasoft on my WRT54G router. I was quite surprised that I didn’t have to re-enter all my custom settings after the upgrade.