A Brief Update

I’ll try to write something a bit more substantial later tonight, but for now I’ll clear up some e-mail confusion: I can see your e-mails, I just can’t reply to them. There’s something wrong with the outgoing SMTP server, and neither Outlook nor any of Powweb’s webmail clients (or my own for that matter) are able to send. No, I don’t know why, and no I don’t have any idea when it will be fixed. I’ve contacted my host and they’re looking into it.

So, for the last time: if you e-mailed me in the last month or so I did get it, and I did read it. I’ll try to get back to you whenever I get things fixed. That is all.

Pretend This Title Is Clever

I think my favorite thing about Wikipedia is how unnecessarily detailed it gets about things that don’t matter. This has nothing to do with the rest of the post, by the way.

I’m back up at school and mostly aware of my surroundings once again. Unfortunately I remain car-less, although given the current state of gas prices I’m not sure this is as bad as it could be. It does mean that I have to ride my bike to the store which makes my usual system of buying lots of groceries all at once essentially impossible. On the other hand, it will probably be better for my general fitness but I’m not one to look on the bright side when the glass is clearly half empty.

It’s always tough to guess how classes are going to be early in the semester, but so far things look mostly impressive. I have two CG related classes, one that focuses on openGL and a second that covers the actual mathematics (specifically geometry) behind it. The professor for the latter is arguably one of the best on campus and it shows; he was animated, excited and specifically instructed us to stop taking notes because we need to hear what he was saying, not just write it down. So far I like the man, and hopefully the class will be equally as interesting. I also have algorithms, which sucks, and software quality assurance, which also sucks but probably won’t end up being much work. There’s some value there, I suppose.

I know I said I would cover PAX and I still intend to. Starting tomorrow (or possibly later tonight) I will be making a post a day regarding various facets of the con and how they went. Will it be interesting? It’s impossible to say at this time.

You Wouldn’t Like Me If You Met Me

I finally finished fixing my e-mail today. Actually, that’s a lie – it’s been fixed for about a week and a half now, but I’ve been using the lie of omission to give me an excuse to stay cut off from the rest of the world for a little while longer. But then, you had probably already guessed as much.

Why have I been in a self-imposed exile for the last few weeks? Many reasons, possibly too many to count, and most of which I’ll not be detailing here at any point in the foreseeable future. There’s no need to take that statement at anything other than face value, and it’s sufficient for the purposes of this post to say that this semester will be…difficult. I’m not normally one to stress out, and I think that my lack of familiarity with such feelings is part of the problem. Between worrying over obligations and nearly a week of sleepless nights (in addition to an actual all-nighter Thursday) I managed to acquire a voracious demon virus that only served to deepen my troubles. I’m mostly over it now, but the after-affects still linger in the form of headaches and coughing.

In any case, I’m making a tenuous return to communication on a trial basis. I’m afraid that I have little to say that’s likely to be of any interest whatsoever, so you’ll understand if posting continues to be light. I suppose I might as well detail the events of PAX, as I said I would, although it is now far enough removed (both chronologically and intellectually) that I don’t have much enthusiasm for it. I guess we’ll see.