On Weekly Review 2007-12-17 to 2007-12-21

Fall semester came to a predictable and unhappy ending: an 'A-' in my fun class, and a 'C' in my hard class. I'm not bummed, but exasperated that I didn't do better in Art. Maybe I should've put in a few more hours of effort.

The initial few days of break were everything I dreamed they would be. I wasted gross amounts of time, and dragged a few others down with me. There were romantic comedies, IMAX Will Smith running scenes, and mooching at various friends' house.

Now the 2nd week is upon me. I still feel fantastic! Granted, I'm not thrilled about the progress I've made on Yumify and other projects, but overall I'm still having a bitching time. Here are some accomplishments to cheer for:

• Yumify has rudimentary Google maps support thanks to Cartography
• Set up Playstation 2 for increased laziness during down time. GT4 is every bit as exciting even through a bad quality picture through a VGA box.
• Massive rewiring and cleanup of my room. It took approximately an hour, but as always, my room is sparkling and clutter free with a hint of orange degreaser in the air.
• Got my bro interested in web stuff. Did not complete a guide in CSS for him like I said I would. I realize I need more knowledge in that area before I could explain material to people.
• Documented Blogger variables. These will be useful when the time comes to redo the HTML for my blog template.
• Fiddled around with Photoshop and InDesign. I really had a good time in InDesign after I tried to layout a page in Photoshop. Big mistake.
• Learned a little thing called 'Clearing Floats' that beats using an superfluous HTML element to clear floated divs.

On Winter Break

Two days until freedom arrives. I bet this is how Mel Gibson felt in 'Braveheart' when he was going into battle to die...

As far as plans go for this break, I plan to keep it simple. I'm going to cover all the basic necessities like eating and sleeping, but on a much grander scale. Coding in my room is also a must. Yumify!. I'd also like to get to know more Rescomp stuff. Somewhere in between those, I'll probably apply to a few jobs and buy myself a POS-mobile.

Update: AnimeNook might get worked on too. My ever-growing taller brother thought of some concepts for the jump pages. Hannah said she'd be interested and her art interests might be really helpful. I'm not sure if I'll have enough time to get to this one though.

On Weekly Review 2007-12-02 to 2007-12-08

In the interest of making this a habit, here goes:

Projects

• Lots of high points when testing Yumify. Not fully tested, but good start. Code smackdown with Peter was fun, Jeremy was too dead from Rescomp video to join. Talked about having a presentation
• No sign of life from Mark's bank project. Dropping until he contacts me again
• More work done on justin.tv parser, but annoyed by parenthesis thing
• Committed rescomp bandwidth 'knob', but didn't do the exaddr field correctly :(

People

• Continued failure to give Bona origami paper
• Got the PS2 in Abe's hands, wrote in to visit him on Thursday after art final

Random

This makes me wish I had been an ME or knew more about working with robots... with CRAZY EYES o_o

On Weekly Review 2007-11-25 to 2007-12-1

I know it sounds corny, but I've been trying out some features of GTD in hopes of using less of my brain for remembering events and trivial tasks. I'm going for high-level conceptual changes, rather follow specific implementations. Basically, I've been trying to make TODO lists categorized by location context, people context, and time to remind me to do stuff. I specific hint I'd like to follow is to have weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews of how I'm doing overall at living my life. Yes, I understand how OCD and mental that sounds :)

Projects

• Talked with Randy about Bandwidth libraries, have an idea of where to start, will attempt Monday after 170 problem set
• Went to YCombinator startups infosession, had a great time and applying to justin.tv by writing a simple parser in ruby
• Talked to Kenny's friend Mark about his project idea involving financial institutions
• Talked to Arthur about helping out on his ajendu
• Started unit testing bits of yumify! scheduled a code smackdown for next Tuesday (12/4)

People

• Failed to give Bona origami paper back
• Helped Emily with CS. I think she'd enjoy it more if the grades pressure wasn't there. But then again, to love debugging requires a special type of messed up person... (yours truly)
• Got to chat with Justin of justin.tv Nice guy.
• Charles might be selling me his Civic hatchback