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Name: Matthäus
Country: United States
State: Oklahoma
Metro: Tulsa
Birthday: 11/13/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Computer Science, the Open Source Initiative, Linux (especially Slackware), Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, Deutsch (aka German), Celtic and Germanic History (history in general actually. . .), World System Theory, Heraldry, Music, Religions/Belief systems, the Bible, Cryptology, the Romantic Movement, the Enlightenment, the Natural Sciences, Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Education, um, etc. . .
Expertise: Information Acquisition and Assimilation
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  Drache dreizehn
Member Since:
9/15/2004
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| It's still raining.
Everything outside is covered in about an inch of ice. The sheer weight is literally ripping trees apart, and everything north of 5th Street (including my apartment) is without power. I'm very much thinking about sleeping in the lab. It's sort of warm in there at least.
I have my only big final in about 9 hours. I'm finding it incredibly hard to study for.
I need to write more. Not just here, but in general. I owe sooo many people an email. And I really want to try writing a novella sometime (A novella is a very structured story focusing on an unique occurence that conveys some sort of teaching or moral--very popular among German authors). I've had so many thoughts this semester that should of been written down... but I didn't.
I'm so ready for this semester to be over with.
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| ...and I have scholarship monies.
It feels good riding the wave rather than being swept away by it.
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| The last week has been sort of frantic. Today was the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Undergraduate Research Conference. I presented a poster presentation of the research I've been doing... a poster presentation I wasn't told about until late Monday afternoon. I didn't finish it until about 15 minutes before we left Thursday and had to print it here at Kinko's (in black in white... which meant practically no wait, and was ~$60 cheaper than color). I think my presentation went fairly well. I didn't get nearly as many odd looks as when I presented the SELinux-based dynamic policy agent. A fire alarm went off during the dinner and awards ceremony, and we decided it wasn't worth sticking around, so we didn't get the judges feedback forms and such. They'll probably mail them to us.
We visited Mesilla today, since there wasn't a lot to do between poster presentations and dinner. I'm afraid that the experience was very much lost on one of my colleagues. He'd never heard of Billy the Kid, nor probably the Gadsden Purchase and Treaty of Guadelupe Hildago... each of which were signed in Mesilla. We stopped ate at the Double Eagle, a restored house turned into a restaurant. This place is truely awesome. Typical architecture here is single story house with a courtyard in the middle and all the rooms around it. Each room (including the courtyard, which now has a sunroof) has been turned into a dining room with it's own theme from either the history of the house or the area. I really wish we'd taken more time to look around in there, but I seemed to be the only one really interested. We also went to the bookstore in Mesilla. Books were loosely organized by subject rather than genre, and it was also a house, so there were books in all kinds of weirdly shaped nooks and crannies (This whole slightly organized chaos of books also distressed aforementioned colleague, who apparently didn't realize that bookstores besides Barnes and Noble or Borders existed). I found a neat book of pictures of amusing signs from around the world, pretty funny stuff. I might scan/post a few here when I get back... Forgot to carry my camera, so no pictures of anything this time =/.
Lasting impression of the day: Listening to the guy I'm sharing a hotel room with for this trip call his girlfriend and tell her how random, pointless, and boring this subtrip was ("not a GameStop or BestBuy in sight!").... same guy who is fine with just writing dot net business apps for the rest of his life... I guess we all have an idea of what boring is, but some people's definitions hurt my head to try to see.
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