My new motto for UNIX class:

Fuck you, Gifford, I'm using emacs.

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Forgot my notes for both Chemistry and Discrete today. I've been having an off week, it seems. It seems that we're finally getting down to the important stuff in both topics. We're starting to do real chemistry stuff (not just how this or that compound is named) and mathematical proofs in Discrete.

Kind of ticked at Brown, though. On the first day, he showed us a cryptic grid of numbers -- told us it was "a message". robertliguori and I copied it down and tried to figure it out, to no avail. He showed us the message this class, since he screwed up encoding it. It read, "ATTACK NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 11". He also showed us a haiku -- "There can be no doubt/On September 11th/God sat down and cried". In all fairness, it should not have come as a surprise. OTOH, I tire of having September 11th shoved in my face all the time. It's a dead horse. Worse than that, it's an undead horse. It's an unhealthy obsession, and what it has wrought has done nothing but make our lives miserable. We all should move on, and do things we can feel good about instead of wallowing in our own manufactured grief and sorrow.

I had to reinstall Slack. I was trying out Dropline Gnome, and the window-based su seemed not to recognize my root password, so I changed it, thinking that might fix the problem, but I screwed up somehow I ended up giving full access rights to the user. Eep. So I blew it away and reinstalled it. Seems to work fine now -- I'm using it to type this.

Spiel was a mixed bag. Tried (and failed) to teach some people how to play Munchkin -- the rules don't seem specific enough, and when I tried to explain to them how it works, they didn't understand, and so they went back to the rules only to find it uncovered. Ugh. I did manage to salvage the evening by Killing Doctor Lucky. Actually, someone else did, but I was really close....

I have way too much work to do...Unix, Chem, and OOP -- two of which are due tomorrow, and I'm not sure how to test my OOP project. The Unix project is just gods-awful. It's even worse when Slack doesn't set up any printing daemons, thus causing much gnashing of teeth as I exit and reenter X referring to the spec (emacs defaults to the X version when in X, and that's Not Allowed -- no pretty pictures for us, sayeth King Solomon). Plus the project itself is just plain stupid. Ugh.