ThePanda

You have to admire people who tell you that it wasn’t all the work that had them tired, but the drinking. Umm OK I have not been told this by someone yet, I however did overhear people at the post office, where I was helping a friend parcel over big boxes of stuff back home, talking about something similar, and am hence in awe. Now before people go on to comment about the futility, or the lack thereof of such activities, it should be noted that this is senior week, and you have one senior week per education level (umm I probably am exaggerating, it probably is no more than one a lifetime), and hence such displays of joviality should be treated neither with disbelief nor with a sense of disgust, for these after all as pointed out in the Alma Mater these are the “The happiest moments of youth’s fleeting hours” for them.

The weather’s gross out there, which is sad in more ways than one, like it’s been raining, and the mercury dropped a lot over the past two days, so that is a good thing back home, especially around now, but no it’s a bad thing here. To make matters worse, the wind is roaring, and as it goes through the thick sheets covering the scaffolding for the future biomed center, it sounds like a million firecrackers going off, in tandem, continuously. I hope it’s not week or anything, those plastic sheets seem pretty big, and heavy, and I really wouldn’t want to see one of them fly off, oh well, just goes to show, this weather wasn’t expected…

For all those who visit this blog, after reading Slashdot, what I am about to say in the next paragraph or so should be old news. Hence I would suggest, buggering off, finding something more interesting to do for the next paragraph or so, and then coming back to reading the rest of this entry, or you could simply close this window/tab/whatever the hell you are viewing it on. Recently (it’s yesterday by my current watch), the New York Times (hmm I can’t even write that out without remembering about Epic2020 and the entire Fourth Estate), published a report about the Windows-Macintosh war essentially establishing ground rules for the same. Having gone through iterations of both operating systems, and having in turn liked both at various points in time (though I admit, currently I love Macs), I think some of those rules are excellent, and need to be adhered to on both sides. I know at times I have been extremely umm protective, about what I feel Macs can do, and I know I have had debates with people who have been extremely fond of their Windows machines, something which is inevitable, seeing as a big part of my life was spent in a country where Mac-penetration is extremely low, mostly because of Apple’s own mistakes (I don’t have the inclination to go through the archives of Karan’s blog, but I believe he had a post about this a long time ago), and generally the debates leave me feeling unaccomplished because I really haven’t managed to change people’s views, and my views remain pretty much the same, and hence are not really beneficial to either side. Seeing as nearly everyone who’s a Macophile has access to Win XP from some source or the other, and most people who are vehemently against Macs, have some reasons to be that way, and should hence have access to those (umm quite frankly, the “I don’t like Macs because they are dumb” argument doesn’t quite cut it), I think adopting that set of ground rules would do both sides some good, and it might actually help get things done. Now I would point out that adopting similar rules for most software/hardware debates, might do us some good, but umm some paragraphs down I might actually be bashing somethings I don’t like about the Matlab language, and about the ultra-restrective Matlab license I am working under (umm using Matlab is kind of important to me this summer, more about that later), and I could be wrong about a lot of things, mostly because I am not really an expert on Matlab, hell I am not even a novice, more of a rookie I guess, and umm ya I reserve the right to make those comments, though I’d obviously be pleased to receive comments proving things on the contrary, since that might actually allow me to learn something, and umm might help me. Obviously all of this requires that the thin stream of people (ya, there are about 30 of you who visit any given day) who visit this blog, leave comments, or mail me, but meh whatever, a lot of this is also about organizing my own brain.

I am amused to learn that school (umm DPS, not Brown) has something called the “academic council”, I am not quite sure where that stands or what that is, but it’s sort of intriguing. Hmm also all of Providence seems overrun by alumni, and if their cars are an indication of anything, I must say Brown alumni do fairly well, they drive good cars :).

I had my meeting with TLD today, somewhat amusing, every time I meet him, I end up getting more pieces of paper on bayesian nets, and how they could possibly relate to the visual cortex, and go back to figuring something or the other out. Right now it’s this Matlab package I am supposed to decipher and then see whether it is actually supposed to work for everything, or whether there is this one kind of data it would work for, sort of fun, except umm I am not really that good at Matlab, and it’s a weird language. It seems to borrow from every language I have seen, and yet seems to be developmentally primitive, its idea of functions is having files with different names, things are returned by naming variables (anyone remember Visual Basic subs, and I think something similar worked in QBasic too), and global variables must be imported in by a global declaration (C extern keyword anyone). Now don’t get me wrong, there are somethings I absolutely love Matlab for, the fact that everything is a matrix, and works on a matrix (hmm imagine taking an array of 5 elements, say A, and going A=(A<=0.75) to get arrays with 1 for everything less than or equal to 0.75, and 0 otherwise, imagine being told this is wayyyy faster than iteration, and while I won’t claim this for a lack of better knowledge, most Matlab programmers out there seem to use this like an O(1) operation, but then on the other hand as someone mentioned on a forum not so long ago, no one really cares about performance that much, and you use an O(n) thing when you have to use an O(n) thing), but umm well they seem to charging a helluva lot of money for it, and they seem to have restrictive licensing agreements, and I am led to believe they are rich, and have big research team, and well they could probably mess with the language a little, get it a little up to date or something. I am not really looking for full OOP capabilities yet (though having that for somethings, without being forced to constantly use it might actually help), but you know something a little better. I however will attest that until this point of time, I have not yet seen a goto in any Matlab code, which makes me happy, since I am burdened with the knowledge that an intro C course in the CS department (admittedly for non-concentrators) does spend time introducing gotos in C, and umm me and a friend tried counting non-evil uses for goto, and I think we came up with one iffy, non-evil use, though I could be wrong about this, but ya, most C programmers seem to consider Goto evil :D. But either ways getting back to Matlab, seeing as my computer hasn’t gone down for a few days, and by days I mean weeks (my mistake, I know), the fact that Matlab uses X and is more Unixy than Aquaish to look at (though the shortcuts are Mac shortcuts, something which always confuses me, since I have been running stuff on an X forwarded SSH connection from the CS department, and everything there seems to use Linux/Windows shortcuts), and takes time to get back to taking input from me (I keep moving around, multitasking is a big thing for me), opening new files for everything I need to do is not something I am very happy about. Hmm so much for complaining about Matlab (please keep suggestions such as use Mathematica, or umm use Maple to yourselves, because I also use the other two, it’s just that I find them useful for different purposes, and am not really good at any of them)...

I am going to cut this entry now, I am going to Waterfire later tonight, and I might have human company when I go to Waterfire, which would be kind of nice, considering a large feature of my nights over the past few days has been watching movies, hmm the fact that I have watched the same three times round, in a period of four days doesn’t help much, but whatever, such be summer ;).

Ze Panda

Note: This entry doesn’t deal with today, it is important for people to understand that most things are influenced by the past, and this is the past.

I haven’t posted in a while, we ignore that, for ignore that we must. I could post about many things, like my exams, the week of stress, and other such unhappy things, but it would do neither of us any good, for we all know what that is like. Then there are other things, so let us concentrate on other things in essence. This entry does not stretch far back into the future, it stretches to some extent, but that extent is relatively small, and you don’t even have to go through time dilation to note that the period of time I plan on describing is relatively short, or so I hope, on the other hand if you do go through time dilation, some of this can seem to occur in a tiny minute burst and can seem somewhat weird, but weirdness as I was discussing with a friend yesterday, can be good, and hence it is not entirely an unpleasant feeling.

They say cities have a character, well they lie, hmm, no scratch that out, technically they semi-lie, since not only cities, but roads and dorms and buildings and such things have character. So yes yesterday was move-out day, and people were (presumably) moving out, often in a great hurry, seeing as you had to be out by noon, else “bad things”™ would happen, and evil would take over the world, and the like… So people hurried, and oh yes hurry they did, there were people with huge vans (and at least 1 guy with a truck, the big kind), and there were different styles of packing, putting stuff in garbage bags and throwing them into cars and vans and stuff, putting things in neat piles and throwing them into their mode of transport. Uniformly though, the activities involved getting rid of large amounts of waste, putting large amounts of things into fairly large cars, and then driving off to fairly far off places, for if they were closer, the entire moveout thing would have started sooner. This is sort of interesting, people coming in from almost everywhere on the East Coast, like I had a friend from Virginia who’s mom drove out to Providence, sure they have good cars, and good roads, but it’s still awfully far away, I doubt the building of a set of really cool expressways back home, would get people to drive out to the ends of the country, but then again the cars are different. While we are still on cars, this is fascinating, but what we refer to as big cars back home, seem awfully small for people in the US, kind of strange, even though as one of my friends put it while we were walking on, there are a helluva lot of SUVs in this country.

So yes, you have people going crazy, packing up cars and leaving, hmm the leaving is kind of bad, like I have spent 9 months with some of these people, and now we all leave, go away for like 3 months, and almost everyone I know agrees it is long. But we are not here to contemplate the leaving, I am no longer really sure what we are trying to contemplate here, but I assume this is not a part of it, well my assumptions are based on my thinking, and hence must be semi correct, but then again I am not completely sure about my thinking at this point of time, and a part of my thinking says I must express disappointment at the fact that most people I know have disappeared, gone off to different parts of the world (it would have been this country if it wasn’t for two or three notable exceptions, and the fact that I am going to fly back home at some point in time, and other causes which are much too strange to elaborate). But nevertheless most people were leaving in the craziness, and a part of the craziness allowed me to take a car ride (my second while in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations), to this storage depot/company/whatever (I am not really sure what those are called), which as I had heard, and can now confirm, since seeing, and by extension sensing is believing, is really really nice. On a side note, I am also the proud possessor of my first piece of furniture ever, and more notably the first tangible, untransportable piece of evidence screaming I am here, I now own a futon mostly for use as a couch in the house, which was bought for cheap, and is a part of my contribution to the house, :)... But yes regardless, I was in a Toyota Camry going to the storage location, which I hadn’t really seen, or known much about, but seeing as the person taking me there, herself knew not the lot number, I don’t feel that bad. It’s air conditioned, beautiful, and better than I expected, and unlike my initial fears, climate controlled is not necessarily a reference to the fact that mild rain does not affect it, but refers to the true nature of climate controlled facilities as used for everything. So yes I have storage for cheap (umm technically as of today I also have a safe deposit box, but we don’t worry about that at this point in time).

So yes, noon came, with the sun high up in the sky (umm wait, the sun was kind of AWOL, but I am sure if it hadn’t been AWOL it would have been somewhere high up in the sky, this being summer and all), and people left, and suddenly the craziness ceased, it hath not ceased, but there was an illusion of calm, something similar to the eye of a storm. By about one, as people had left, a storm of dumpster divers emerged, people who would dive into the giant charity dumps which dotted the campus searching for items of use in there, and some who would walk through dorms, whose doors had been popped open, and steal food, any and all good food in refrigerators. They weren’t student, and while they weren’t evil, troublesome some of them were, for while I have nothing against dumpster divers, who after all were finding large quantities of the “good stuff”™, and such, I do have things against those who take away the four bars of sharp cheddar which I had used a friends near infinite supply of flex points on, and they took it, even though it was marked out with the words “Staying for commencement week, do not take”. Now I know sharp cheddar is good, hell if it wasn’t I wouldn’t have bought all that cheddar and crackers, but for heavens sake, you shouldn’t steal someone’s cheese, it might be important. Hmm, OK have to agree this is the first time food has gotten stolen, and seeing the huge amounts of food you can usually see at most places, food really isn’t something people like stealing, so it probably was just a case of someone deciding I had left, and taking said pieces of cheddar to eat, because after all as we all know cheddar is good.

I digress, but I have decided those gamish ads they place on top of Xangas are evil, they are evil because I love playing with them, but I don’t like the popups they open if you win, now I know they are childish games, easy to win and devoid of any serious challenges, or requirements of skill, but I like them nevertheless, and hence find them evil, go figure.

So yes the days since, hmm Brown is deserted, deceptively so, since recent examination of the areas around has shown a large number of people I actually know, who are staying on for a while, it is interesting, social networks seem to be connected by groups of people, and occurrences of events, in the absence of which, I at least seem to be partially if not completely disconnected from them. I did have a rather long, and interesting discussion with a friend yesterday, and did watch Garden State, but those are minor occurrences. Contrary to what I promised myself, I have still not watched Episode 3, or H2G2 for that matter, and no matter how bad they are, it is essential I remedy this situation at some point of time in the near future. I wonder what crappy movie I will get to watch on my flights back, oh wait I am flying BA, in which a friend tells me I should be able to chose A/V as opposed to pure audio channels, so perhaps there is hope yet, and I shall not watch crappy movies, which is not entirely a good thing, seeing as on my flight over I watched Wimbeldon, a movie so utterly crappy that I wouldn’t watch it otherwise, but strangely OK for aircrafts. Oh well we shall see, many hours of flying lie in the days ahead, and we shall get to them eventually. I however am flying on an aircraft run by Delta which doesn’t have Delta wings, I am in fact not sure any of Delta’s current fleet has delta wings, sort of sad, I want to fly on Deltas which have delta, and it is plain wrong to not be doing that, same as it is plain wrong to have PanAm be a local airliner operating mostly in Maine. Oh well we shalth see, we are still in recent history, and distant futures, so I still have kept my timeline promises, and Providence is still here, and the dumpster divers are gone, and other such things…

Ze Panda

There are things happening this week, there are many things happening this week, let us see… There is the nunnery pub quiz, which though not at a pub, is still a quiz and keeps most of the rules of pub quizzes, and of course there is Life of Brian. Hotel Rwanda last night, was weird to say the least, I have always believed The Killing Fields was one of the best movies when it came round to showing the gruesome side of human conflicts, well The Killing Fields has swamps full of dead people, and crazy people aplenty, kids in arms and things, but Hotel Rwanda takes it a step further, from Chinese machetes, to people hacking away at people, to the utter senselessness of it all. It was kind of nice, in that it was thought provoking, but it was weird, it’s a good movie, and I suggest people watch it, though I also suggest not watching it too often. Besides it makes you feel some of the UN Peace Keeping Forces pain, some anger towards the EU, and the European Intervention Force, which did act in true European fashion in someways, meh it’s a nice movie.

Pub Quiz, oh Pub Quiz, which was not at a pub, and probably broke n >1 rules of how pub quizzes should be held, but was great fun nevertheless, there were questions I loved, and questions I detested, but then isn’t that true of any quiz. Hmm this week has made me reach the depths of being non-productive, I haven’t really done much, my accomplishments for the week read off as completing a CS final, and my math hw, and little else, my sleep time this week has not been significant either, and I really don’t know what to do, because I have too much to do, and too little motivation to actually do any of it…

Physics final, oh the physics final, it is going to be here soon, and I don’t know how to prepare for this, I know nothing or everything, and I really don’t want to read more of this book… Today is the last day of reading period, I have my first exam tomorrow, and I have other stuff to do today, and I have to study for this exam, but I have stuff to do too. Hmm it gets more interesting, I actually enjoy some of this, OK correction I have always enjoyed some of this, just not as a part of preparing for exams and the like.

So it is decided caffeine as served by Starbucks doesn’t really do it for me, perhaps something else would, but hell this stuff is supposed to keep me awake, hmm OK my tying speed does seem to indicate that I am kind of awake, but well it isn’t really working that well with remembering things about Richardsonian Romanesque and stuff…

Hmm so fine this is kind of a restart but whatever, I am kind of done with architecture, and physics, done for this semester with those, all I have left is two math exams, somehow that doesn’t scare me as much as everything else did so far, I have written a few long e-mails and there are things I meant to do some time ago which I haven’t. Well OK let’s see, I cleaned up, and packed up a portion of my room today, which as anyone who has seen my room in either continents can tell you is a near impossible task, but it is happening, and it is making my room look weird, and I have an issue with the library but that is on its way to being resolved, and I have a lease for an apartment for a month, which pretty much solves my problems for umm let’s see all of summer. For all who don’t know, I am going to be in Providence for most of June, then heading to Park City, which is 40 or so miles away from Salt Lake City (yes I know Utah, but then they also hold the Sundance film festival at this place every January, hence it should be reasonably ok), and then flying back home. I’ll be home on July 16th, and though I know nothing about what is being planned, I might actually try and squeeze in a programming contest somewhere in there, something which I have been discussing with people back home, but am not sure about, for I don’t know whether I will actually have the time or the inclination to do it, but for weird reasons it should be fun. As for those attempting to reach me, I should be available via cellphone or e-mail (hmm explanation follows). Also in general some people have sent me e-mails, which I probably haven’t responded to, those e-mails were also probably sent to my hotmail account, but since MSN switched off access to Hotmail via Entourage, I rarely if ever check my mail there, and thanks to Microsoft’s general expansion of my mailbox size, it is usually impossible to get it all filled up, and hence mails keep reaching me, with the net effect that I don’t actually end up reading most of it.

Anyways as for the rest of it, while I continue to be peeved about certain things, I don’t think mentioning it here makes much sense, seeing as not many people know context or other background information, and of late I seem to have reached a state where people take some of my writing a lot more seriously than it is intended to be taken, ok I am kind of wrong about that, most times when I am pissed, I write pissed, same with everything else, but umm there are things which I am facing now, which are really hard to explain, and hence hard to contextualize, and hence when mentioned either confuse people, or cause weird issues, for which I kind of (but not completely) apologize. However in new, non-weird news, I have realized I don’t really like drinks which contain ice, coffee, and flavoring, well OK in general I don’t like drinks containing coffee, but yesterday I was really sleepy at around 7, and I needed to study for exam, and hence as a last resort (Diet Coke failed), tried out above mentioned combination, which worked, but kept me awake long after it should have, so hence made it necessary (not sure) to get another such combination today, which worked pretty successfully, since I did know everything in the exam, and liked it somewhat. But I digress, the above mentioned combination, tastes much like bitter water, there is an initial surge of sweetness, and then it’s all bitter water with ice, making it freakish and horrid in my opinion, but then again it keeps me awake.

Ze Panda

They tell me the sciences take more time, well perhaps in your book they do, but this by far takes more time than anything else I do, it takes so long to churn out a descent paper, there is so much involved in even trying to BSing it, and add to that the fact that you can’t BS a paper without knowing something about the person you are writing about. So far here are the only logical beliefs I have, a) Antonio Gaudi was partially crazy, b) Antonio Gaudi was growing crazy as time went by, c) Some of these people who have been arguing about how his work relates to everything, should work on relating architecture to cartoon architecture, like come on seriously the only reason I am working on this guys architecture is because it reminds me of The Flinstones and Bedrock, know how many scholarly articles state anything about this, none, absolutely none, The Flinstones cannot not be the subject of any scholarly literature originating from the current scholars, they are sooo good, and they’re animated, how can someone meeting those two criterion not be a part of scholarly literature???

Hmm I heard back from the CS department today, no I am not a CS17/18 TA, the good news is almost everyone else I know is one, so I am not sure, I am not allowed to be unhappy in some ways I guess, and I know no one who cares much, which I guess is a good thing. Well guess what, here’s where things stand now, I didn’t get the one job I had been hoping for since the beginning of the year, I am not good enough for them, or they are not good enough for me, but then again that’s just a way to avoid it, so whatever, I don’t really have a job for next year, when I am supposed to pay for part of things with a job, hmm I tutor, but after certain incidents this year, I am not sure about how much of that I want to do anymore, and besides it’s a very people dependent thing, I like some tutees, and I absolutely hate some of the other tutees, and seeing as I have no control over who I tutor I would much rather end up doing something else, but then that requires having a job, which requires other things, which I seemingly don’t have. Hmm my inability to get a job is perhaps only comparable to my inability to get into college sometime back, fun, I guess it’s pretty much the same thing. I reread the letter, supposedly me and everyone else who received it are in a waitlist, hmph as if that’ll matter, everyone who got the job will take it. I have a feeling I should just figure out why I can’t get one of these things, maybe ask the people who made the decisions, but somehow that feels like a way to being forth confrontation, which I can do without, seeing as everyone in the whole wide world is waiting for me to explode, waiting for me to scream, kick and shout at a few people, and that hasn’t happened yet, it isn’t going to happen, not now, not here. I still don’t get it, how did the guy who wrote me the honor e-mail get to be a TA, he isn’t that good, hmm not sure it really matters, does it. Oh well I guess I had some intuition that they wouldn’t hire me, I am either the village buffoon or the arrogant genius who’s bored in class, and both professors have varied in their choices between those two extremities, oh well I really loved the professor teaching 17, and I think 17 and Scheme and everything is really really interesting, so I hope whoever’s TAing and whoever’s being TAed has fun, and I will be around since I know pretty much everyone of the UTAs, I’ll be around trying to break into the CS departments UTA structure, ‘coz I don’t know how it works, and never have.

They have K-9 units, Providence Police units, Secret Service agents, who’re all wearing suits, and have bulging guns in holsters under their suits, and someone who seems to be dressed in a Sheriff’s uniform straight out of Texas standing outside, I have never really seen these many police units, people not from DPS out there, and while the guns distress me, the K-9 units are worse, the dogs bark at weird things, and the cars which carried them over are all parked outside my dorm, thus making it inevitable that I run into a few every time I enter or leave the dorm, hmm Clinton and all is OK, but darn keep the K-9 units away.

Talking about random things (OK parts of it were serious, but for reasons involving both trust, and personal reasons I am going to just clump it all as one random thing) took up most of this night, hell it’s almost the longest I have been up at Brown (I have stayed up for far longer at home and New York, but not at Brown). Hmm I am not sure where any of it went well, it was really good to talk about some of it, but I have a feeling most people went out more unhappy than they went in, and seeing as some of the discussion was started because of me I feel sort of bad about it, hmm we will see, something has to come out of this.

I am on a new operating system, I have a copy of Mac OS X 10.4, code named, and for entirely Appleish reasons sold under the name Tiger. I also have Sun’s Tiger for Apple’s Tiger, though I am peeved about the fact that the default Java distribution for Tiger is not 1.5 but rather 1.4.2_07, and despite having the ability to set the default hotspot and normal launcher to 1.5, I cannot find a way, except for setting paths to actually have Java 1.5 be the default SDK I access from the terminal, and that is really weird. Also seeing as there is a bunch of documentation telling people about how to get 1.5 running on XCode 2, and informing people that XCode 2 currently does not by default shift to Java 1.5, is in someways moving away from the initial hopes of many that Tiger would in essence bring about support for Java 1.5 from Apple, however it would seem Apple only half heartedly supports Java 1.5. Also Spotlight which is Apple’s innovative new indexed search engine, does not yet index any of the Office documents, and while I know that is not Apple’s problem, and I should probably try out iWork for which Apple does provide extensive support, however I don’t want to use iWork, I don’t own iWork, and I like Office 2004, but then whining about Spotlight is useless, since it’s as much Microsoft’s fault as it is Apple’s, I only wish they worked it out. Also my screen doesn’t seem to be going off to sleep after inactivity, and I would love it if it started doing that. Hmm also as I just discovered, X forwarding does funky things on X11 as implemented in Tiger, even though it seems to be the same version as last, and where is the goddamn XGrid integration everyone’s been talking about, huh??

Being drunk dialed is fun, I know because I was earlier today, by a friend, a funny friend, someone I haven’t really mentioned much before, hmm it’s strange, we have a strange friendship, and yet we are friends. He’s not a part of the “group”, and hence not often mentioned. Oh well H2G2 is out as a movie, and I guess the both of us might go, hmm so few people seem to have read H2G2 here, it’s almost a crime, not reading H2G2…

This has been an unproductive weekend, I haven’t really got anything done, and I really had things I needed to get done, I don’t understand normalization factors, or why I need to consider the normalization constant for a quantum mechanical wave form, I am not sure I understand much of quantum mechanical waveforms themselves, but then I believe I understand the math, which I also believe is the essence of the entire thing, but meh I don’t like it. I haven’t worked on Gaolis theory much, and I am sitting with an easy CS exam which I don’t want to do, hmm OK I did a bit before I typed this out, but that doesn’t mean I like it, not really anyways. I did next weeks Physics homework rather than this week, how am I supposed to know which is which when they are both posted, simultaneously, as the leaves of one confusing tree, which reveals it last leaves, before revealing anything else…

OK so I was wrong about some of my problems with Tiger, since as time goes on it does improve on some of that, it does index Word files, so perhaps creating an index takes long, and it does seem to put my screen to sleep, one of those things which began happening after a reboot, so yay for that, the rest of the issues still remain, and I wonder if like my friend I should go around putting up bug reports for Apple to deal with, hmm I am not sure, see whenever I have put a bug report no one ever really cares about it, they act as if they do, but truth be told they don’t, something about it being a minor issue and things, hmph.

I wish people told me more of what was going on, instead of relying on messengers to relay information to me, sure I am probably not going to shoot the messenger, but then nor would I shoot them, and it would be good to have some context to some of the messages relayed, bah it would be good to have some context to life in general, but that probably is not happening anytime in the near future…

I have an entire day free, and despite reservations about putting some of this online, it does go up, hmm well life goes on, I will write more entries, but this one scares me…

Ze Panda