Walking to…

Yesterday was a crazy day and it will be sad indeed if no one found out how crazy a day you can have, especially when people are given some amount of slack we were given this weekend, well not exactly but whatever. Well OK, not completely slack, since I did get work done Friday, and Saturday, most of my current math assignment is correct, and I rather like everyone else have been working through this dull Sunday morning, but seeing as hard pressed as everyone was through the past week or so, and seeing that almost everyone would be away the next weekend, and we’d have reading period and final exams coming up a few weeks thereafter, it was essential that we did something. Well umm I will slow down a bit, rewind to where I left off on Friday…

The Incredibles, yes I did watch The Incredibles, and it’s one fun movie, well it’s a Pixar production, so it’s pretty much like all the Pixar productions, good . They also had this mini-thing playing right before The Incredibles, Boundin’ and that had some really catchy lyrics, and cool animations. Ok this isn’t sounding very exciting, but I assure you it was, it’s a cool movie, and people should watch it…

Oh well now yesterday, umm yesterday started out slow, I had a fun interview (whee pointers), discovered that fmod in C can return a floating point modulus, why anyone on the face of the earth would actually need a floating point modulo operator is something which I cannot comprehend, but I guess, it’s there for a reason, so if anyone wants to use it they can (oh and it’s in the math libs, so do remember to include math.h), had a fun time explaining why I would want to be a TA, simulating a TA session, and generally discussing donuts, C, GCC, and other fun things. Fun . So anyways at the end of that, which was a mere half an hour later, I was back in my room, frantically hammering together a CS project, typing out bits and pieces of a paper, and figuring out what is the Russian Federation’s current stance on Chechnya is, and other such fun things. So at 1 or so I headed out for lunch, and there’s this guy I go for long random walks with when both of us are bored to death, since it seems to be a fun thing to do, and the other day we happened to walk from Providence to Pawtucket which is this other city in Rhode Island in some completely random weird way, and then we had to take a bus back, since it was getting kindda cold, and we didn’t want to walk back, and ever since then we had been telling people about how we’d eventually walk down to Massachusetts. Now this is one of those Saturdays when just about no one (OK there was someone who did) has enough work, and this guy and I decide to try walking to Massachusetts, and a few minutes, a MapQuest search, and some amount of prodding later, there’s like five of us who’re going to walk to Massachusetts, and while we have a general idea about where we’re heading (MapQuest helps, no we don’t own GPS units, and as far as I know none of us had compasses, or maps for that matter, and most of us believed that while asking people along the way for directions to Massachusetts would have been a fun thing to do, it wouldn’t have helped too much since people would in all probability have not liked that, oh and well we had someone from Massachusetts, so we were hoping she could home in on her home state), we are basically walking in the general direction of where Massachusetts should have been. It actually is a pretty walk, there are a few places which are slightly barren, but by and large the entire way is lined with beautiful houses, playgrounds, shops or something or the other, oh and at least one huge golf course. It took us an hour and a half or so (we had a few stops along the way, Dunking Donuts to buy water, one of the playgrounds to try out the swings, and we also did that on the way back), but we finally did reach a welcome to Massachusetts sign, well Ok first there was a welcome to “Seekonk, Estd 1812” sign, but that was soon followed by a Welcome to Massachusetts sign, and cars with Massachusetts sign, yay. Along the way there were some hilarious signs, including a sign marking the way to the Space Station on Dexter Street (avid watchers of Cartoon Network should get the reference)... The walk back was another hour and a half, and well it included a stop at Starbucks, where I ended up having a delicious Caramel Apple Cider, and that was followed by dinner at the Ratty, where we actually spent more than our fair share of time telling people about our walk to Massachusetts.

And you’d think that’d be it, since it should have proceeded to be a normal Saturday night, well it actually did go on to be a rather abnormally normal Saturday night. For one we watched Animal House, and that was good, but that’s not that unusual. And like we do every other Saturday night (well people do different things different Saturdays), we went on to play a game, except rather than choosing Taboo, Cranium, we chose to play Capture the Flag, in the hallways, which while a good idea, attracts lots of stares from people who obviously don’t understand why people are running up and down the stairwells. Besides at least one of my friends heard a lot of negative remarks about our playing Capture the Flag in the hallways, but to hell with that, playing Capture the Flag’s a lot more fun…

Ze Panda
walking to the CIT…