Uhhhh, I'm full. Nugget and I returned from Mongolian Grill, the grocery store, the Walgreen's, and a nice drive through a neighborhood. I'm full. I also opened a letter from ITT today. It's my grade report from this past quarter, including my cumulative GPA from all howevermany quarters. I managed to keep my 4.0! Yay!

If anyone is interested, the graduation ceremony is at LBJ Auditorium on UT campus at 3:00pm this Saturday. Anyone who wants to come is welcome to, but... uh... I'm only just barely going, and I don't really expect anyone to show up. :) But, if you want to come and need directions or anything, ask. :D

Tags: school
Current Mood: pleased

School's out for the summer! Or, actually, school's just out. Overwith. Done for. Graduation is on July 10th, 3:00pm, in the LBJ Auditorium on UT campus (weeee, don't we think we're special).

So, I've taken my school hard drive (40G Western Digital), and placed it in my desktop, in place of the 1.2G Western Digital that was my second drive for a while. The box is a little quieter, at least at times, which makes nugget happier, and I know have a total of 120G in there. There's a Windows 2000 Server install on the 40G which I don't plan on touching, but it should only be using 2-4G (I haven't checked yet), so there's still plenty of space. I'm thinking of doing a FreeBSD install and playing around... Tweaking it, seeing how much I can break, how much will stay fine, and how it compares to Gentoo installed on *almost* the same hardware (the two WD drives may have different RPMs, and the Gentoo install is behind a 40G Windows install). Hrm... If I write up a detailed report, think I could make Slashdot?

My birthday is tomorrow! Well, basically tomorrow, since it's past midnight here. Thursday the tenth. I was born at 10:21pm on Thursday, June 10th, 1982. I weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces, and was 21.5 inches long. This is all on a needle point on display in my room at my parents' house... I guess it's still my room. The only changes from when I was there are it's cleaner, and guests sleep there.

I've become rather fond of two XBox games... It's all Nugget's fault. Knights of the Old Republic and Project Gotham Racing 2 seem to have me hooked. I'm about to finish my fourth time through KotOR.

A while ago, I had compiled a 2.6 kernel for my Gentoo desktop, but I had yet to actually boot it. I figured since I was taking the box down for the hard drive install tonight, I might as well try that new kernel. It's booted fine, and everything seems to be running well. In fact, many things are running much more smoothly. From a general, soft feel perspective, the 2.6 kernel (Gentoo's 2.6.5-r1) is running much smoother than the 2.4 kernel (Gentoo's 2.4.25-r3). Neither has the preemptable kernel option on, but my actions in Enlightenment are less strongly affected by the compiles with the 2.6 kernel. Even Flash seems to run faster, though it can still slow down Firefox. It's pretty nice.

Tags: geek, school
Current Mood: cheerful

School is only a few weeks away from finishing. My major projects are done. I have to finish up a Power Point presentation for my Wednesday class, and we have to present on it. There will be a few more things to do in the Friday class as well, but the tough class this quarter is done - the Monday class, Telecommunications. I now know more about the phone system than I ever wanted to know.

I changed a few of my CFLAGS on the desktop. Changed from -O3 to -Os, and added -ftracer and -ffast-math. I'm now rebuilding everything (emerge -e world). The compile is on package 218 out of 281. FireFox and Mozilla are in the list of not-yet compiled, XFree is compiled, and it's working on the various GNOME packages now. I suspect the compile will still be a while.

The Miata is the funnest car that they've made over 700,000 of. Eww, bad grammar. Anyway, I'm really enjoying the car. It doesn't have an easy life, but I suspect it likes it that way (if it were capable of liking, yes I personify my car, leave me alone).

Like I said, I'm a nut. Package 220 of 281.

Tags: cars, geek, school
Current Mood: cheerful