So project 1 for CS 162 was due midnight between Monday October 4 and Tuesday October 5. And when did we finally get our code working? It was 12:15 am, Tuesday October 5. Translation: slip day! So I hung out in the Rescomp office for a few more hours that night writing up some documentation (may as well take full advantage of that slip day to make it seem all pretty and all that, eh?)
So this was a test of endurance, insanity, and caffeine, as well as craziness, wackiness, and being on crack. Why I pulled an all-nighter when I didn't have to is beyond me; in any event, as far as I was concerned, Tuesday was still an extension of Monday, I had gotten no sleep in about 42 hours before I finally whisked off to happy happy dream land. So it's no surprise that my memories of that day are a little on the "not there" and "forgotten" side, as after about 11pm Tuesday night when I got notice that Rick submitted the thing, everything I did was purely subconscious; I remember things that I did only as if they were details of a dream I was trying to remember...some fragments here, some other fragments there, and my mind fills in the rest to tell myself that it was a coherent whole. Wish I could have remembered more.
So at any rate, all I have to say is that long hours in front of a computer are more pleasurable at the Rescomp office than in Soda Hall. Not only are all the clients there P2-300 machines (much better than the HP-UX 60MHz machines in 273 Soda, but the atmosphere's nicer...there's a big phat soft couch to sleep on...just ask Wes here. And maybe Theresa:
Here's another cool thing that happened: around 2:30am, I decide to try to burn a CD on frodo. It's booted into windows, and well, as planned, it's unhappy. I don't get it. I've made nothing but coasters on that thing lately. Anyway, Eric Lui comes up with the brillian idea of showing us what would happen if we nuked the coaster. Apparently, Hoss had showed him before, and he was eager to pass it along, and wouldn't you know, it was a nice pseudo-pyrotechnic display as some of the bluish stuff from the CD was fried/vaporized, or what have you. Here's what happened to the CD:
