02:58:53 Saturday January 31 2004
Today I woke up only to discover that I had a flat tire. After bumming a ride to campus with Matt I met with Professor Xie. After that I met with my group for 590d. That didn't go too well. It looks like we will be implementing the PFIR TRIPOLI scheme. I am not very fond of the scheme from a technical point of view. However, I am glad that a decision has been made and that it is something that I feel we can actually implement.

After those meetings I met with Faisel et al concerning the new performance engineering group that I will now be a part of. I think the meeting went well. I think they picked up on the fact that I was already a bit overloaded. Perhaps they will not dump a new project in my lap immediately. After this I hung out in the office with David and Rick. It is always interesting to hear them opine on the day's events. I wrote some code for a couple of hours and then headed off to the improv show. The improv show featured improv crews from Lafayette, Purdue, UIUC, and Michigan. I enjoyed it a great deal and Big Brothers/Big Sisters made out like bandits, which is excellent because that is such a good cause. We ran into Lita at the Improv show. We also saw Yost. Strangely enough he was performing. He actually did a hell of a job. I was very impressed.

After the improv Chris, Sara, Sara's new flatmate (who's name eludes me due to my mutant weakness) stopped by. We had some quite tasty vegetarian Chili and watched Being John Malkovich. I like Sara's flatmate. She is one of those people who seems to understand that judging people by the quality of their media is a time honored early/mid twenties hipster thing to do.