March Update 1

Here I am, for the first time since I moved from home, sitting at a desk and typing a post up for the world to read. I bought the Silverio Chair and mobiletech personal computer workstation from Staples and now, 4 hours later, I am using them. Both are pretty nice aesthetically, but the desk is 99% particle board and at least 3 of the wood screws used to hold it together spin freely. Thankfully, there are enough cam-locks and wood pins to hold it together pretty well. However, regardless of whether it is sturdy or not, I have a 3 year warranty on it which will be more than enough to take care of the time I have left in college.

Today I did something new, I went out of my way to help another student. I know that after 4 years of college that doing so should be something I am used to, but frankly I've never felt the need. Today was different. The professor was explaining functions in C++ to a student who had ask a question about arguments and return types. I listened to both the explanation and question and decided the former wasn't sufficient enough to answer the latter and spent the rest of the class writing function examples with slight variations that represented how the lack of arguments or presence thereof affected what was needed in the function to produce the same practical result. I also alternated between the void and double return types for each function to show how that affected the code. In the end, I had something I didn't expect from myself: Something that looked like a page right out of a textbook. The student I handed it to realized the same thing and thanked me for it, something I am very happy about.

In contrast, another thing that is making me happy is the arrival of spring break. I will be cycling back home to see family and friends, some of them for the first time since I left. The cycling thing is going to be a new experience for me, and if I make it all the way home, I'll definitely be letting the world know how I feel because that will be by far the longest I've ever ridden I bicycle. Beyond socializing, I also plan on installing Fedora 14 while I can utilize my parents 11mbps internet connection, taking care of a few things I left undone, and probably getting some homework done. I'll come back a week from today and finish off Spring Break with video games. I'll probably play Final Fantasy on my NES the most, but I might also run through Legendary on Halo and Halo 2 on my Xbox. Of course I could also play Super Mario RPG on my SNES, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on my Genesis, Rise to Honor on my PS2, Super Mario 64 on my N64, but either way, I'll probably kill a little time playing Donkey Kong on my Mattel Intellivision. No matter what, I expect this will be my best spring break to date for one reason: I won't be pulling 40 hours at Burger King.

Oh, one more thing. I have decided to kill Kamisamanou.net. My day to day life doesn't allow for the upkeep of a website, blog, microblog(s), and the other things I get my hands on. Starting in the future sometime, http://www.kamisamanou.net will begin to point to my Google Profile at http://profiles.google.com/kamisamanou First, however, I am going to do a bit of an overhaul on my Google Profile. That should bother anyone out of my small group of readers since the important websites: kamisamanou.com(WordPress blog) and slashmyzeros.com(my posterous site) will both remain. By the way, if you are reading this at kamisamanou.com, I just wanted to let you know that this is a post on my posterous account that has been automatically cross-posted to my WordPress blog.

Sayonara,

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