I'm dreading seeing the final score of the Iowa-Iowa State game later today. It's going to be ugly. I think ISU is probably the worst team in the Big 12 right now. :(

I'm switching out my keyboard today for Jeremy's old one. While losing the top row of number keys is bad enough (I've been copying and pasting exclamation points and parentheses for months now), just today I realized that my B key is starting to fail. I went to www.faceook.com twice this morning. ANNOYING.

...or look back through the thousands of comics in the PhD Comics archive to find the one about what to do while your script is running just so you can post about how you're waiting for your script to run. I have no life, but at least I got the damn thing working! It may take about four days to finish (literally, I'm leaving it running over the weekend), but it's working!

Snippets from today...

1. I almost ran over a little box turtle on my drive into school this morning.

2. I found this new spangled calendar feature on Google (there's a link to it at the top of your Gmail window), and I happen to think it's awesome. Now I can view and edit my calendar both at home and at school! Yay! I guess this signals the end of me ever needing a paper planner now.

3. My grandmother and aunt are visiting my great aunt Peggy who lives about fifteen miles from me. I should find time to see them before they leave.

4. One of my office mates had a birthday today, so I got free cake!

5. As I was walking out to my car on my way home I stepped off a curb wrong and completely wiped out on the street. Both of my ankles are now sore as hell (one of them I landed on sideways, so yeah...that will smart a little). To make the experience even more enjoyable, someone was walking the other direction was like RIGHT THERE to see me go down. Fabulous.

6. I found out that I will FINALLY be getting a computer in my office by Tuesday (since Monday's Labor Day and all). It's a PC, but I'll take anything at this point. The only issue is that our room doesn't have half of its ethernet ports yet, so I might be internetless for another week or two on my machine. Others in the room will be hooked up though.

7. Speaking of Labor Day, THREE DAY WEEKEND! Woo hoo! Too bad Jeremy's working night shifts through all of it. :(

I got this idea from Katie, but I changed it to ten since I'm such a music freak.

Top Ten Singles of 2003...according to me.
(In no particular order)

1. Bring Me to Life--Evanescence
2. Hey Ya--Outkast
3. Beautiful--Christina Aguilera
4. So Far Away--Staind
5. Clocks--Coldplay
6. Faint--Linkin Park
7. Bright Lights--Matchbox Twenty
8. Hurt--Johnny Cash
9. Here Without You--Three Doors Down
10. Swing Swing--All-American Rejects (I had to do it.)

My computer is still having major problems. The battery didn't fix the problem, and I am very amazed that it's running while I'm typing this. I think it's time to upgrade to XP.

Well, that's certainly interesting. What would cause the PHP code to fail on every single file in a directory...and quite possibly the whole server? This site that I maintain for my adviser uses PHP to link every page to a stylesheet and header, but the pages can't find those things, so the whole layout on at least 30 or 40 of them is totally fucked. I'm not EVEN going to start pasting the style code into every one of those pages. Not at 12:30 am on a day when I have two finals. No way in hell. There has to be an easier solution. Something probably just got tweaked with the server to where it doesn't recognize PHP. I emailed the resident techie guru of our department. He knows everything there is to know about computers, servers, and programming languages.

That said, I'm going to bed.

I'm such a dumbass. I uninstalled everything for my printer off the computer before I realized that I have no fucking idea where my installation CD is. Now I'm downloading the damn drivers off the Lexmark website, and it's taking a very long time. Watch, I'll find the CD after I get this done.

I have to write a program that codes or decodes morse code (depending on which choice the user wants). I'm having some issues with the morse to alphanumeric conversion. The program I wrote reads the code from a file and then spits out the alphanumeric equivalent on the screen. It compiles great, but when I try to run the morse code through it, it prints nothing. So here's my question: why isn't the program reading the data in properly?

This is the code I want to read in:

.- -... -.-.
.---- ..--- ...--
.... . .-.. .-.. ---
.--- . ..-. ..-.

Each individual letter is separated by a space.

( Here's the C++ code )

Now that I have a right-clicking mouse on my computer at work, I've been playing around with Gimp. I don't know yet what it can do with images, but I do know this: Gimp sucks ASS at anything that involves text. It has that annoying Hyperstudio quality about it where if you click out of the text at any point, it's stuck there on the page right where you left it. There's also very few fonts to choose from, you have pretty much no ability to make a statement carry over to more than one line unless you use an additional plug-in, it's clumsier than hell when it comes to adding drop shadows and bevels, and new text boxes don't automatically create new layers. All in all, I ended up using Powerpoint of all things to create what I needed to create, because Gimp just wasn't doing it for me. God I miss having Photoshop. I guess I still kind of do have it, but I always run the risk of freezing up the old clunker of a computer before I get a chance to save my work. Technology hates me.

(*&#$*(&^@#*&$*#$*&^#&%^&^#!!!!!!!!

I just spent over 30 minutes fixing up an image for my boss's website for his class, and the FUCKING POS COMPUTER FROZE. I was so close to being finished with it, too. Macintosh computers fucking SUCK.

Sorry, I meant to post this in a community, but I'll leave one here too in case any of you know C++...

help...this error is irritating me more than you'll ever know

( Errors returned from compiler: )