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Oct. 11th, 2005
Class and Doctor
Oct. 11th, 2005 11:51 amOperating Systems Class
Well... apparently through trying to kick ass in order to not be swamped during Out for Blood show time... I have clawed my way to the top. I have apparently made obvious SEVERAL bugs in the professor's code. It needed to correctly handle masks, and the IDLE function didn't play well with the interrupt system. (for the non-geeks, translation: several pretty key things are pretty darn broken). The prof said, in puzzlement, that the undergrads last term made it through the code base with nary a problem. I explained that it is one of my Mutant Ninja Powers to break things, but I don't think he believed my claim to super-human code breaking skills. Not until he said "I'll get those fixes out to you all ... as soon as she (me) tests them and approves them." and one of my fellow students said, with some dry wit - "But that will NEVER happen! You just don't know her!" - student in question was on the project where I broke a critical 3rd party product so many times, that I became FAMOUS in the vendor's company for the frequency, variety and depth of my bug reports. On day, for shits and giggles, I managed to find over 30 discrete and completely independant bugs. My bosses now save me, until the vendor becomes egotistical and obstreperous - and then they inflict me on them.
I got a feeling from the terseness of answers after class that I am so ahead that he feels no need to intricately answer my problems... that, and that I may be beyond the BIG problems, and now it's just a matter of whacking the kinks out.
All in all - feeling better about the project.
Baby Doll progress
First demonic pasty done, second pasty (of a pair) halfway done. Have worked out kinks, I think and can generate the rest without incident. Have the bases glued and drying at home.
Checkup
First annual checkup in several years. I had stopped going to our family GP because I felt that she was too friendly with my mother. A slip (which I now forget) about one or the other of us having recently seen her, said to the other one, made me uncomfortable. While no proprietary info was shared, and while this isn't unusual behavior for a family doctor 10 years ago - health and health issues have become a touchy topic in the Information Age, and I don't want to have a conversation with my mother of why I did (or didn't) go to the doctor.
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Well... apparently through trying to kick ass in order to not be swamped during Out for Blood show time... I have clawed my way to the top. I have apparently made obvious SEVERAL bugs in the professor's code. It needed to correctly handle masks, and the IDLE function didn't play well with the interrupt system. (for the non-geeks, translation: several pretty key things are pretty darn broken). The prof said, in puzzlement, that the undergrads last term made it through the code base with nary a problem. I explained that it is one of my Mutant Ninja Powers to break things, but I don't think he believed my claim to super-human code breaking skills. Not until he said "I'll get those fixes out to you all ... as soon as she (me) tests them and approves them." and one of my fellow students said, with some dry wit - "But that will NEVER happen! You just don't know her!" - student in question was on the project where I broke a critical 3rd party product so many times, that I became FAMOUS in the vendor's company for the frequency, variety and depth of my bug reports. On day, for shits and giggles, I managed to find over 30 discrete and completely independant bugs. My bosses now save me, until the vendor becomes egotistical and obstreperous - and then they inflict me on them.
I got a feeling from the terseness of answers after class that I am so ahead that he feels no need to intricately answer my problems... that, and that I may be beyond the BIG problems, and now it's just a matter of whacking the kinks out.
All in all - feeling better about the project.
Baby Doll progress
First demonic pasty done, second pasty (of a pair) halfway done. Have worked out kinks, I think and can generate the rest without incident. Have the bases glued and drying at home.
Checkup
First annual checkup in several years. I had stopped going to our family GP because I felt that she was too friendly with my mother. A slip (which I now forget) about one or the other of us having recently seen her, said to the other one, made me uncomfortable. While no proprietary info was shared, and while this isn't unusual behavior for a family doctor 10 years ago - health and health issues have become a touchy topic in the Information Age, and I don't want to have a conversation with my mother of why I did (or didn't) go to the doctor.
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Aparna's Fan Girl
Oct. 11th, 2005 01:18 pmI admit it - I'm a fan girl of my teacher. :) It's good - it means I love learning from her. So... now I pimp for her:
My teacher - Aparna Sindhoor - was one of the choreographer's for this movie:
http://www.anandabhadram.com/
She did the choreography for two of the songs. Her husband was the executive producer. The movie will be in Malayalam - the language of Kerala on the Southern tip of India. I assume for American release it will be dubbed in English.
This is by the same director who did (in a partnership with another) - Ashoka - the very spiffy movie about the ancient Buddhist Indian king.
I'm getting endless delight from this - as Bhairavi and I spent a while trying to figure out how to steal dance moves from Ashoka. I can only assume that the dancing will be a little bit more traditional, and quite Southern, given my teacher's background.
But... this film is not period, not documentable, or anything that would hold up in the SCA... But it does seem to have a lovely fanciful quality to it, which makes me really interested in seeing it. I'm also really intruigued by the neat menu page in the flash site. It has a few issues - mouseover areas are a little too small for easy usage, and it's just a tad too dark, but the effect is really neat.
This is not the geeky Indian Laurel you are looking for.
Just an excited fan-girl.
My teacher - Aparna Sindhoor - was one of the choreographer's for this movie:
http://www.anandabhadram.com/
She did the choreography for two of the songs. Her husband was the executive producer. The movie will be in Malayalam - the language of Kerala on the Southern tip of India. I assume for American release it will be dubbed in English.
This is by the same director who did (in a partnership with another) - Ashoka - the very spiffy movie about the ancient Buddhist Indian king.
I'm getting endless delight from this - as Bhairavi and I spent a while trying to figure out how to steal dance moves from Ashoka. I can only assume that the dancing will be a little bit more traditional, and quite Southern, given my teacher's background.
But... this film is not period, not documentable, or anything that would hold up in the SCA... But it does seem to have a lovely fanciful quality to it, which makes me really interested in seeing it. I'm also really intruigued by the neat menu page in the flash site. It has a few issues - mouseover areas are a little too small for easy usage, and it's just a tad too dark, but the effect is really neat.
This is not the geeky Indian Laurel you are looking for.
Just an excited fan-girl.