Blog - /Personal

Some days are stranger than others. Saturday, I went to Shaw's new house, spent the night, played copious amounts of Halo, watched Nausicaä, and met Anya. Sunday involved watching Cartoon Network (especially FLCL) early in the morning, taking a 4 hour nap, and eating pizza rolls for breakfast. Then I watch The Birds, a Hitchcock classic movie.

I amused myself by watching Star Wars: Attack of the Clones until Shaw got back from work. I headed back to my mom's house after a few hours of catching up, and then promptly fell asleep with glasses and shoes still being worn. Happily, I managed to keep from crushing my glasses while sleeping, though my feet were sore from wearing the sandals.

One of my sisters told me that she wanted to bake something, so I incoherently suggested chocolate chip cookies and went back to sleep. At 2 the next morning, I wake up and remember that cookies were promised, and consume several of them. I don't feel like sleeping, so I read an issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal that I obtained from a prof last semester and scoff at all the ads for proprietary software. For example, an ad for SlickEdit:

"When accepting this job, my only request was that SlickEdit be waiting for me when I arrived." — [SlickEdit user]

My only request for the programming lab at Purdue is that Emacs be installed on the machines ... oh wait, I can just launch it from my laptop remotely using an ssh-tunneled X session. And since I use a private Arch archive for version control, my Emacs session doesn't need to have machine-local access for the lab computers anyway. So I guess all that I require is ssh, Arch, and an X-capable machine.