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Towel Day
Posted by nuxi on 2008-May-27 at 14:12:49 in My Life (Login to reply)
Sunday was towel day, do you know where your towel is?
Cleo knows where mine is:
In other news, mary took her doggy home. Now I'm lonely.
More doggy pictures
Posted by nuxi on 2008-Jan-15 at 01:44:14 in My Life (Login to reply)
I spotted this gem on wikipedia (emphasis mine):
Gentle, playful, willful, mischievous, cheerful, clever, loyal, sociable, loving, easy-going, docile, extremely independent, easily bored and potentially destructive when bored.
Now that doesn't sound the least bit like anyone I know...
Also, sooner or later I need to get a husky with two blue eyes and name it Muad'dib or something :D That joke can wait a few years until I have more space. I'm gonna end up living in the country with a pack of dogs... I can tell.
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I'm a sucker for puppies
Posted by nuxi on 2008-Jan-11 at 21:47:42 in My Life (Login to reply)
I want him. He is an Alaskan Husky, which really means he is a mutt with a decent amount of Alaskan Malamute or Siberian Husky heritage. I don't care, he is a cute little puppy. If he is still there when I visit Houghton I might come home with a puppy. (Anyone who knows me knows that this is probably, I will come back with a puppy if they let me)
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Please sit while peeing!
Posted by nuxi on 2007-Nov-24 at 00:43:32 in My Life (Login to reply)
As found in a public restroom in Grand Rapids.
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A real vacation
Posted by nuxi on 2007-Jun-02 at 02:48:48 in My Life (Login to reply)
So my friend Katie has been asking me to visit her out at Yellowstone for a few years now. With random threats of mailing me moose droppings if I don't. So I finally decided to do it this August cause I have nothing else to do with all my vacation days.
The magnitude of the trip just sunk in. The distance is 3,400 miles round trip. That is 600 miles short of my 4 trips per year to MTU that I made as a student. And I thought the 500 miles each way on that was bad!
During this 3,400 miles, my gas millage could vary from using 85 to 105 gallons of gas. Thats two almost full tanks of gas for my car! Talk about a real demonstration of the cost of driving aggresively. It will be about $75 extra to drive fast. Also to do this trip in the vehicle I want, a Jeep, would cost approximately one full month's rent and use over 225 gallons of gas.
Wow. Can't wait and I don't mean that sarcastically. I'm looking forward to this adventure.
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weeeee
Posted by nuxi on 2007-Apr-15 at 00:10:03 in My Life (Login to reply)
It takes approximately 16,000 hamsters to pull Katie's car. This was based on how much we could get a single hamster to pull.
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I want shiny
Posted by nuxi on 2006-Oct-09 at 19:40:00 in My Life (Login to reply)
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I got a job
Posted by nuxi on 2006-Jul-25 at 19:03:21 in My Life (Login to reply)
I'm going to be working at Eastern Research in Ann Arbor, MI. I'll make a friend's only post on LJ with my new address when I move.
IANAL but I don't see the IP clause of doom you hear about from people in Silicon Valley where the employer tries to claim ownership of stuff created while the person isn't even at work. Which is good cause I like tinkering with stuff like the Linux kernel.
Looks like I'll have vacation days to use to go see Bruce Schneier speak at Michigan Tech. Which is supposedly on October 2nd for those who don't know.
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NMU Programming Competition
Posted by nuxi on 2006-Mar-19 at 14:23:39 in My Life (Login to reply)
My team, COME FROM Considered Harmful, got 1st place at the NMU Programming Competition. We got 2 out of 6 problems completed. Our time on this was 66 minutes, the second place team took 234.
I really liked problem #6 eventhough I didn't solve it in time. The goal was to write a program that solved Sudoku puzzles. My program worked on the two example boards they gave, but it died on some of the real test cases.
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A möbius strip only has one side...
Posted by nuxi on 2005-Nov-03 at 02:22:26 in My Life (Login to reply)
We can have single sided 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper with notes on it for our exam in Computer and Network Security. (see subject for the punchline)
Also, I know way more than my prof on one of the topics covered in this exam. Specifically regarding pratical applications of IPsec, because I actively use it and she doesn't. If she asks the wrong question she is gonna get an essay out of me on the test.
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my schedule as it stands
Posted by nuxi on 2005-Oct-21 at 00:33:39 in My Life (Login to reply)
SS2800 - Science Technology and Society - Carol Maclennan - TR - 1105-1220 - 3
CS4131 - Compiler Construction - Steve Carr - MWF - 1105-1155 - 4
CS5411 - Advanced Operating Systems - Jean Mayo - TR - 1405-1520 - 3
CS4099 - Directed Study In Computer Science - Jean Mayo - None - None - 3
I'm still debating taking:
CS4811 - Artificial Intelligence - Nilufer Onder - MWF - 1305-1355 - 3
That will put me at 16 credit hours and I'm not sure I want to do that with Compilers and AdvOS on my schedule too. Plus I only need like 7 cr/hrs to graduate and I have 13 without AI.
CS4099 is my awesome class where I get to work on the Linux Kernel! I'm going to be adding WPA support to my wireless card driver and getting class credit for it!
In other news our current assignment in CS3411 is a networked tic-tac-toe game. The CS dept named a server WOPR, mine is going to have special features if run from WOPR.
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Planning my final semester
Posted by nuxi on 2005-Oct-19 at 12:28:02 in My Life (Login to reply)
Went to the PE office to get my PADI certification approved as PE0210 credit.
Tomorrow I have to visit Dr. Mayo to discuss CS4099. A few weeks ago she mentioned that she could get me credit for doing Linux kernel hacking, I intend to take her up on this offer. I want WPA support in my wireless card drivers!
Then I have to go finish my degree audit with Lowther to make sure I have, or will have, everything I need to graduate this spring.
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How to secure your reputation as a security hole
Posted by nuxi on 2005-Sep-03 at 20:35:17 in My Life (Login to reply)
One the second day of your class in Computer and Network Security go up to your professor and ask about a flaw in the CS server that would allow you to log into the server as her. She wouldn't let me test it, but she asked the sysadmins and they confirmed the hole.
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one week left
Posted by nuxi on 2005-Aug-16 at 02:42:03 in My Life (Login to reply)
I plan on leaving for MTU either on the 22nd or 23rd. Dark (my roommate) said he was going to be there by Monday so I don't have to worry about getting there before the sign in desk closes for the day. I can always crash in the <a href="http://www.me.mtu.edu/cael/partners/pics/2004/closet/andy.jpg">Partner lounge</a> if Dark isn't there yet for some reason. Won't be the same up there without Xobes and Mary to bug.
Four CS courses this semseter:
CS3411 - Systems Programming with Dr. Mayo
CS4451 - Network Administration with Ruihong
CS4471 - Computer and Network Security with Dr. Mayo (the course I should never be allowed to take under any circumstances)
CS4611 - Computer Graphics: Foundations of Computer Graphics with Dr. Lowther