Anxiously Awaiting

 Happy Halloween!

The mens bathroom in the TSRB on the floor which I work has the light switch placed in such a way that I compulsively turn it off when I leave. I don’t know if this is purposeful, but it makes for an embarrassing yelped “Sorry!” whenever I remember that someone else was in the bathroom on my way out. See diagram for a clearer view.

Image gone =(

Image haxxed with The Gimp. Linux doesn’t have MSPaint =(.

This is one place where proximity and placement is quite possibly a bad thing since it’s a natural movement for me to turn off the lights when leaving the bathroom. Don Norman would be proud–or maybe he would curse them. It’s hard to tell.

I’m a nerd. I promised to enumerate all of the nerdy things that I do in a comment to this post on d10’s blog. I’m omitting the obvious things like being a CS Major at Georgia Tech, reading Slashdot and Tom’s Hardware regularly, and the copious playing of video games when I have spare time. Here should be the more obvious proof that I am Lawful/Nerd. Onward!

In the previous paragraph, I made a D&D joke.

I “haxxed” Windows themes so that I can have a black taskbar.

I have a rotating collection of Final Fantasy 7 and Digital Blasphemy Backgrounds.

I can quote over 5 Strong Bad emails completely. As a matter of fact, the title to this post is a Strong Bad quote.

I think this is funny.

I compulsively right click my desktop and select refresh for fear that something might have changed in my system and my icons should know about it.

I have a Super Nintendo Emulator on my computer.

I listen to Techno while coding.

I have over 1TB of storage on my desktop system.

I know what a FLOPS is.

I once wrote an unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe game in java just because I was bored.

I own every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation on VHS.

I think C# is sexy.

I insult my friends over AIM/GChat with java for loops. Example:
/* On this assignment I collaborated with your Mom. Like, ALOT */
for(int i = 0; i < Integer.MAX_INT; i++) { System.out.println(”n00bzor!11one”); }

My cell phone has a windows based operating system on it, and a Digital Blasphemy desktop background.

I have a blog category called Nerdular Nerdance (another Strong Bad quote), and it has the second highest post count as of writing.

I have two tabs on my Google Personalized Homepage. On the first tab I have live news feeds from Slashdot, Digg, ArsTechnica, Tom’s Hardware, and a Sudoku puzzle. On the second one I have feeds to Dilbert, VGCats, and Penny Arcade online comics.

I studied booby physics in my Video Game Design class. Yes, it was part of the curriculum. If only I still had my syllabus…

I’m sure that there are thousands of additional things that further prove my nerdiness, but I think these are enough. Feel free to post other things you notice about me that are nerdy. I gave up fighting it a long time ago.

Long time no post. Mostly because I have been buried under an avalanche of stuff. Fellowship applications, IRB certifications, the taking of the GRE, and all my undergrad projects. I have something due every day this week, so I don’t really have time to waste.

In other news, I borrowed one of these guys from my research professor:

It’s kinda old (circa 2003), but nevertheless it’s pretty neat. I have been testing out its various pen based software and there’s some pretty sweet stuff out there. Of particular interest is Alias/Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro and Microsoft’s OneNote. None of them recognize kanji though, so boo.

Took a midterm today. Meh. Have a research focus group meeting in 2 hours. Meh. For my first week back from a break it feels like I had no break at all. Factor in that my head is a compressed snot factory and it makes for a generally unhappy week. I think I’m either getting a bad case of senioritis, or I am too overworked to be motivated. The weekend looks to be filled with catch up work and the Clemson game. I have a 4400 project, a 4750 project, a management test, a Japanese kanji test, a Japanese chapter test, and a research milestone coming up next week, so looks like I won’t be getting much sleep. Sweet.