Projects
Thursday, 11 July 2002 at 03:41PM
Haven't had very coherent thoughts lately, so maybe I'll just start listing the projects I've assigned for myself:
  1. Do something about Dire Wolf's yard. It's gonna be an interesting challenge because whatever we (one of my housemates, Serra, is in cahoots with me on this one, as well as any other housemate we can drag into this) do has to not require either watering or sunlight. A bunch of medium-sized trees block most of the light, and we're fairly certain that nobody will want to water a lawn come fall. Anyway, this climate can't support lush green grass in the first place, so it's probably all for the best. Maybe some lavender? Unfortunately, midsummer is just about the worst possible time to plant things. Maybe we'll just end up un-planting the dead things.


  2. An idea I got during lunch today. First, you might need an explanation of how food works at Dire Wolf. Storage: There's a fridge, a small cabinet, and a large cabinet. Vocabulary, used across campus co-ops: GC, NGC. We're each responsible for cooking our own stuff. You can use NGC (non-general consumption) food which you have stored in your own shelf in the small cabinet or labeled with your name in the fridge, or GC (general consumption) food from the fridge or the larger cabinet as long as you initial the item next to the receipt, which somebody taped (or stickered; Ian got stickers of random Visa cards in the mail) to the fridge foor when they bought it. At the end of a week or two, somebody does the very complicated calculations for properly splitting up GC food costs. But, I think, this process would be much streamlined with a simple C program, the skeleton of whose memory structures I sketched out during lunch break on Wednesday. Dorky! Exciting!


  3. Finish up a kick-ass dorm yearbook that will be a fun design exercise for me. Soon.


  4. Another fun design exercise: ultimate website. And, I just found out about virtual hosting! (Thank you, place of employment!)


  5. Figure out a major, dammit. Or at least a plan of action for fall quarter classes.


  6. I've been browsing Craig's List, su.market, and eBay for a while now... just window-drooling, really. I'd love to have a proper road bike within the next year or so, but don't know whether I should focus on getting my current bike's gears and chain repaired/replaced (They're really chewed up, and starting acting up on me two weekends ago while I was in San Francisco. Must learn to shift gears properly.) or just save up for a sweet road bike. It's probably wiser to stay with the former option and save up for a nice bike in the later near future, since I just finally got the front fork replaced after my close encounter of the cement lamppost kind. Bike shop guy, the same one who taught me how to change a tire: "How did you manage to do that? Did you get hurt? It takes a lot of pressure to bend a frame like that, y'know..."

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