Final Examination

... but not a Finals, as my CS 135 students duke it out against ten questions for the last of the three long examinations I will give this semester. And then onto the checking...

Goin' for Broke

Pedal to the metal, and... laze away...

Here We Go

Let the wheels turn, let the cogs gnash. Given up to the end of the next month, let's ride this wave as it crests and till it crashes, crashes on the beaches of bone-bleached sand.

Bellyachin'

Note to self: keep to the puttanesca sauce; meat sauce upsets you.

Tumbling Down, Tumbling Down, Tumbling Down, ...

It's hitting the fan, y'all.

Bringing on the Pain

Here we go, judging for the CS 11 Programming Competition. Since they had only started on arrays, the single problem they will work on is the Base Manual Calculator. This may seem harsh, but I don't think anyone can be fully expected to solve th problem completely: this is to gauge how far they can go. If anyone solves addition completely, I'd be fully impressed.

So far, there had been two UPS givings-up, and no submissions, and it's down to the last thirty minutes, so there's not really a lot to say yet.

11:40 AM (11 minutes left): Nothing still. Just uploaded my solution from last semester to geocities. May move it to my usual account, if ever, later.

Sucks to Be Me

:(

Principal Uncertainty

Well, today's blog's title is a poor play on words regarding my research for a presentation regarding Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Very useful are, of course, Wikipedia and The American Institute of Physics's historical archives. I knew I wanted to do some additional research on the topic, but I didn't expect to be sifting through enough material to cover the state of physics at the time.

Mid-exam Examination

I'm a little surprised to find so many students still slaving over the second long examination for CS 135 when only thirty minutes are remaining of the three-hour duration. I maybe expected them to laugh the examination into submission, but maybe the examination is laughing back at them? I cannot be too sure.

In either way, the examination seems to be making my students examine my use of language...

The Long, Slow Descent

It has been an open secret that I haven't had internet access at the house for almost three weeks now, and today is the day that determines the fate of my home's connectedness. Hopefully everything will resolve in the positive, but only time can tell...