Yes, I'm blogging in class again :) For the most part, every building on State's campus is nicer than the engineering building I've spent the majority of my 4 years in. There are always exceptions to the rule, and one such exception is lecture hall 218 in Withers. This is the computer science (CSC) building, there also seems to be a lot of Chemistry and maybe some Physics that goes on in here - but this particular hall is a computer science class room. Now other than the professor I'm listening to right now (I *am* listening, just blogging at the same time :)...) most of the professors I've encountered in this building are horrible. That aside, what I'm here to talk about isn't the teaching quality of the CSC department, but rather the ceiling of Withers 218.
It is impossible to own any piece of electronics and not have dealt with the incredible amounts of dust that will accumulate on its surface. The ceiling of Withers 218 appears to have a thick layer of dust randomly distributed across the entire surface of the ceiling. I'd estimate the dust to be over 1" thick in its worst places, but probably 0.25" - 0.5" in most areas. I first discovered this the first time I had a class in here years ago; someone told me to look at the ceiling and all of the sudden I wanted to stop breathing. Four years later and I seem to still be living, but I can't help but have an intense desire to run in here one day with a big dustbuster and have at it with the ceiling. If I had a camera on my phone I'd take a picture of it.
I know, pleasant thoughts for the morning :)
Now I've heard of runner's high, which I do believe I get when I'm crazy enough, but I'm fairly certain that I receive some sort of a high when I write or talk about anything I'm passionate about. I had to give a presentation this morning about some AT related stuff and I swear that the fact that I had to wake up 1.5 hours earlier than normal to give the presentation was completely wiped out by the fact that I'm so much more energized after talking about stuff I'm passionate about for 45 minutes. It's one of the best feelings in the world.
An even better feeling? Being able to talk to Vinney after my presentation, that just puts me in a mood that can't be beat. I love you Vinney :)
Looks like class is over so I'm outta here, and this time I didn't lose my blog before posting it :)
Have a great day everyone, I'll be at home studying for the mutually assured destruction compiler test I have tomorrow. eep.
It is impossible to own any piece of electronics and not have dealt with the incredible amounts of dust that will accumulate on its surface. The ceiling of Withers 218 appears to have a thick layer of dust randomly distributed across the entire surface of the ceiling. I'd estimate the dust to be over 1" thick in its worst places, but probably 0.25" - 0.5" in most areas. I first discovered this the first time I had a class in here years ago; someone told me to look at the ceiling and all of the sudden I wanted to stop breathing. Four years later and I seem to still be living, but I can't help but have an intense desire to run in here one day with a big dustbuster and have at it with the ceiling. If I had a camera on my phone I'd take a picture of it.
I know, pleasant thoughts for the morning :)
Now I've heard of runner's high, which I do believe I get when I'm crazy enough, but I'm fairly certain that I receive some sort of a high when I write or talk about anything I'm passionate about. I had to give a presentation this morning about some AT related stuff and I swear that the fact that I had to wake up 1.5 hours earlier than normal to give the presentation was completely wiped out by the fact that I'm so much more energized after talking about stuff I'm passionate about for 45 minutes. It's one of the best feelings in the world.
An even better feeling? Being able to talk to Vinney after my presentation, that just puts me in a mood that can't be beat. I love you Vinney :)
Looks like class is over so I'm outta here, and this time I didn't lose my blog before posting it :)
Have a great day everyone, I'll be at home studying for the mutually assured destruction compiler test I have tomorrow. eep.
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Anonymous - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
Did some MOD take off 3ghz Prescott delayed article?LOL, because it was a good one some people just got confused about 478 and 775 pin. lmfao.
Anonymous - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
PLEASE GIVE US SOME MORE NV40 vs. R420 HINTS?????Will NV40 have 16 pipes? Has ATI already lost???
GAAAHHHH!!! *pulls hair out*
Anonymous - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
Was the AT related presentation for school or for a company?I bet you are the most famous and the richest guy at North Carolina University. :)
Anonymous - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
Was the AT related presentation for school or for some company?I bet you the most famous and richest guy at North Carolina University. :)
charlie - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
i've been known to be the guy in WI 218 who taps my fellow classmates and tells them to look up. tis rather scary. it looks like it's covered in mold as well as dust. i've wanted to pass out face masks at the door.Holger Eilhard - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
Hmm, don't know about any big athletic center here, but I know, we have a golf course ;)Cliff - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
yea, nice new athletic complex here too...whatever brings the money and alumni back.tl - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
Ah, yes, good ole public education. I feel the same way just down the street in Broughton Hall (where our MAE Dean threw away a wind tunnel that was donated to us becase we couldn't afford to store it until time for installation over at Centennial. and the wind tunnel we are stuck with has been here since around 1930 and produces absolute crap for data).But at least we have a brand new football "operations center" over at Carter Finley.
Holger Eilhard - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
At our university we mostly have "old" dual p3's. Can't really complain about their speed. Last year or so most of the employees got new TFT's. It was a really strange picture seeing this mass of empty TFT cartons lying around everywhere.BTW: One really great place to be (and to learn) in summer is the notebook cafe. Air-conditioned rooms rule ;-)
Cliff - Monday, March 1, 2004 - link
Inverted dust collection...nice. Doesn't seem to distort the wireless reception (-: Quick question...the engr building on our campus is decent, but how are the computers that are in that building for you? What reeeeealy gets to me is the open access labs in other buildings have better system configurations (+proc, +ram, DVD-Rs, LCD monitors, etc) and what they're mainly used for is less than repuatble. In the engr building we're booting win98 or 2k if you're lucky with out of date hardware for apps (and users) that would make better use of more up to date systems. Just a rant of mine.