Back in the midwest
Well, I’m now home in Minnesota. Research went OK. The last day was a lot of work though – Friday morning, we had a meeting to make sure that everything was ready and done. Then, Prof. Raugh decided to tell me that he had looked through my part of the report and had some changes for me to make. I spent all afternoon making changes, and getting the final copy ready. I put the entire thing in a .zip file (just over 3MB zipped – quite a large piece of work!), and I was about to mail it off! I decided to check my email just in case anything unusual had happened at the last minute, but forgot how to do that from the terminal room. So I skateboarded back to my room, and check my mail. Lo and behold, Sarah has also made some major changes to her part of the report, and could I add them to the final copy? Mind you, this was at 6:00. I was about to be done. So I save her changes and go back to the terminal room and put them in the final report, rezip the whole thing, and send it out. I also put a copy in the directory Claire made for this project so that we can all access it on the math computers. It’s now about 3.1 megs (we had a lot of changes, apparently!). I finish work up at 6:30. :-P But it’s now done.
It’s a little weird being back in Minnesota. Marc can now drive, and has a job lifeguarding. So he’s going to be taking the car a lot, I fear. He has also decided to put bumper stickers on the back. He got one of those stickers from WootWear, and one from the USA Fencing Organization. I don’t want my car covered in bumper stickers! Get those off there! Luckily, he hasn’t put the fencing one on there yet, and I’m hoping I can persuade him not to. hm…
Though my computer is at school, it is turned on and the SSH port is open, so I can continue to install programs on it while I’m here. This evening, I started building OpenOffice. We’ll see how that turns out. I also have a copy of Knoppix with me, and have been impressing my dad and brother with its little features (everyone is impressed with the “fuzzy” clock, and Marc really likes the ASCII movie player). Since I have X-forewarding turned on on my machine at school, I can also check my email from there. This is really nice, because I can continue to train the Bayesian spam filter, and keep all of my email in one place. Whee! :-D
In world news, the Darfur Conflict is finally getting some well-deserved attention. The New York Times (free registration required, or go to BugMeNot) has stuff on it here. It even made the local paper here (the Star Tribune), which barely has any news of import. I for one am glad that Darfur is finally getting some attention. I’ve been following the conflict for several weeks, and at first I was quite dismayed that the rest of the world didn’t seem to notice (though perhaps it merely appeared that way because I was living in the college bubble). Well, I just thought I’d try to increase awareness of the issue.
It’s late, so I’m now going to bed. Goodnight!