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It's 4 am on a Thursday night, why am I still up? Oh wait, that's right, finishing my Concurrent Reader Exclusive Writer programming project for my distributed operating systems course. Yes, I am that nerdy that once I get started on coding something, I have to finish it. Even if it's not due till midnight tomorrow and I have nothing else going on. And then instead of going to bed, I end up doing one of those infamous over-tired updates where I just ramble on and on about random crap that no one cares about (ie, pretty much like 95% of the internet today) and make even less sense than (oops, almost put then) I normally make.
I still don't get the appeal behind MySpace. Or well I mean I get *why* people like it, but my god is there any site that is more ugly or less user friendly? It looks like internet vomit. Where's Webpages That Suck when you need them? And in a funny story of what a little script hacking can do, one guy figured out how to automatically make people who visited his friends pages his own friend, resulting in over 1 million friend requests in less than 20 hours. This man is my hero. And apparently a lot of other people's too.
Every weekday Student Government does something useful and buys several hundred copies of the New York Times (and USA Today, but who cares about that paper?) for distribution across UF's campus for students to read for free. The interesting thing that I really would like to see a study on is the distribution of readership at each news stand. Some days they're all gone by 10 AM, other days there's still some left even at 3 or 4 PM. The high traffic places run out far earlier than the one's hidden away in corners (which makes sense, don't study those) but I just find it weird that it's almost a crapshoot if there'll be a paper left or not. And it alway seems to be quite full whenever I grab a paper, so maybe the days it runs out it just doesn't have as many stocked? See, this is why I'm really curious. Gah!
Also went to Museum Nights for the first time in a really long time today, so see a guy from the Smithsonian talk about deep sea life and how we pretty much know nothing about it. I love that about science, because it always feels like we know and have figured out pretty much everything by now, but yet there is still SO much we don't know anything about. I'm getting nerdy again, I digress. They also had an exhibit on giant squid, which is very pertinant considering the first live video was released recently (see update a few days ago) so the museum got very lucky on the timing of that one. I also found out it would take 6 of me to equal the length of one giant squid.
I also took advantage of my Tivo and watched some movies today that were on TV over a month ago. One of them was Guess Who's Coming To Dinner which was a landmark film back in 1967 that explored interracial marriage. Really good movie too. Which it still amazes me that it was only but 30 years ago that interracial marriage was still considered controversial. Or well maybe last week, if a poll saying over a quarter of Americans still disapprove is correct. What the heck is wrong with these people? I can't even imagine it making a difference (I've liked whites, hispanics, blacks, asians, jews, indians... I just don't care, why limit my options?), but yet we're still that backward? On the other hand I see gay marriage being the same exact issue, and there are states banning that left and right too. We'll look back on this in a few decades and wonder what the heck we were thinking. Oh you crazy world!
Well enough rambling, it's far too late and I ought (what a fun word!) to get to bed. Midnight madness is Friday so I'll be going to that. Er well not so much Midnight anymore being the NCAA changed the rules so that teams could practice for a few weeks already and can do full practices starting at 7 PM instead of midnight. Talk about a killing the whole spirit of the event, did no one on the NCAA ever go to college? I went to Midnight Madness at the local Division II school as a kid, and have gone to every one at UF so far. I love it, and I can't believe they have to change the rules on us. We're college students, we'll be up anyways!
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