Checksum Arcanius

Stayed up all night working on my 25-page paper. It is now up to 18 pages. I think I’ll make it. It looks pretty goo so far.

Fortunately, this plethora of school/work/bike trip preparations will end soon, and I will only have one thing to worry about: pedaling.

Circuits test: 79. Not great, but not the end fo the world. I guess I’m getting a B in that class. I think that’ll be my first B from BCC. Oh well, getting out just in time I guess. I graduate this August.

I still have a personal statement to write for UW Bioengineering. Before I leave, hopefully.

Concerning the recent downtime of SilverFir.net, sorry about that. I made a mistake.

Three recent kernel panics on sf2, the server behind most of silverfir.net, had me concerned. I googled the problem, found that it was linked to Kernel version 2.6.10, which I was running, and so it became clear the an upgrade to Kernel 2.6.11 was in order. Being the master that I sometimes am, I performed the upgrade nearly flawlessly, and sf2 is now running with the new kernel. Let me know if you notice anything weird. Assuming that no problems are seen, I will make the new kernel permanent (and probably delete the old 2.6 kernel as well).

The circuits midterm I just finished was not as bad as everyone made it seem by staying, to a person, until the end of class. The last midterm saw people walking out halfway through the period; there was no equivalent for this one. While I too was pushed to the brink and in fact did not finish the last problem, I am convinced I could have, if only I hadn’t messed up on each of the first three problems, only to catch myself later and return to fix the error. In short, I could have aced it, but I didn’t because of the dumb little things. I’m disappointed, because I don’t get bitten this way too often, but it is still better than I probably would have done, had I not had a gestalt about second order differential equations after lunch today. So overall, I am pleased. We shall see how I feel on Monday, when the test is returned.

Not so hot in the reading or exercise, or sleeping parts, or in the CS part. Bah.

Mega-uber-super-rut this weekend.

Resolutions? Not worth talking about.

Starting to come out fo the funk now, though, I think.

One of the greatest perks of joing the Libertarian Party for me has been getting onto the email distribution list of our esteeemable campaigns coordinator, Jeff Jared. While many people loathe getting onto any list, this one is literally a constant stream of good ideas, mostly in the form of published letters to the editor from libertarians.

Some examples:

2005-05-17 KING COUNTY JOURNAL Letters to the Editor

HOSPITAL

Washington’s Department of Health squashed building a new Issaquah hospital. Sorry outer-suburbanites, you’ve got to come to the inner-burbs to get medical care because the state has decreed it so.

This is just another example of how socialist central planning strangles market forces in health care and raises costs through bureaucratic entanglement.

Let’s deregulate health care. The state Department of Health should take a chill pill and let market participants like Overlake Hospital build another in Issaquah if they want to.

Jeff Jared

Kirkland

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