04:03:20 Friday January 23 2004
Yeah, yeah, so I missed an entry yesterday. Let me see yesterday... I woke up early for a PSO. That is Practice Study and Observation for those of you not from purdue. There is a rule here that you must give at least one credit for a "lab". So the CS department is known for scheduling "optional" PSO sessions (see how they cleverly did not use the word "lab") once or twice a week (for which you receive no credit). Of course you will find it incredibly difficult to pass the course without attending these "optional" sessions so you essentially have to attend. At least they schedule them during the free time on your schedule. We were assigned our packet sniffer project. This should not be too hard. Just many lines of code.

From there I met with Professor Simonsen. I did not get as much done on her project as I thought I could, but she is happy. Her research seems to be moving along nicely. I know her postdoc is actually using an earlier version of my code. I learned earlier this week that I am going to get moved into a new group at work. Apparently they are going to support a group to work on advanced scientific programming. I will miss working under with Dale Talcott. He is a good guy, and a real old time hacker. I will be working under Faisal Saied now. I don't know much about him, but he seems like a nice guy. He is a mathematician with all kinds of connections within NCSA. He helped me get an account there for working on the Globus/grid stuff.

After work last night I came home, had spicy stir fry of death with Brad, and was just too tired to produce any notes for cs490-dsp. So I went to bed a little early last night and got up a lot early today. I threw together some lecture notes. Actually they were not half bad. I zipped through all my classes without lunch. For some reason I was not hungry today. Did some more work this afternoon, mostly small stuff that had been put off by all the administrivia last week. I did some plotting about what our 590d project should be. I had hoped to be in bed well before now, unfortunately I am going to need to violate the no-alarm-on-Friday rule tomorrow.