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Shamelessly stolen from a friend, the title fairly accurate summarizes my feelings right about now at this time of year. We’re all done with classes and all there is between me and the summer are two finals, one of which I’ve already started and am about 30% done with. I’m now just packing up everything I can’t take with me back to Virginia (I’m taking the train!) so I can shove it into storage tomorrow afternoon. This’ll be slightly annoying, as what I’m leaving up here includes all my bedding and related materials…I can manage it though – it still has nothing on sleeping on the ground in the Grand Canon :)

In three days I’ll be on my way back to NoVA, and soon after that I’ll be starting up my summer coop work in Springfield! This summer should prove to be interesting at the very least, but hopefully mostly a learning experience. I definitely want to try and delve into PERL so I have some experience between BASH and Java, and I’m hopefully going to learn how to use and manage a whole bunch of server-side items: UFW, JumpStart/AI servers, DNSSEC, Puppet, Ganeti, etc. The list is fairly lengthy, so that and work should keep me busy.

Onward we go! Lets have a great finish to the academic year and a wonderful summer.

Bunneh!

To counteract everything depressing going on around the world, here is a happy little bunny to keep your spirits up.

Chain of Command

How about the Systems Administrator that controls the system that controls the Red Button? :P

Springtime in Rochester

The Cosmos

I stumbled upon this video (I believe) via StumbleUpon that really nicely uses the recordings of Carl Sagan and adds imagery of the universe to it to make it breath-taking and beautiful. This really was what I needed on a down day – something to be inspired by and to be reminded that the future is yet untold, and it is up to us to determine how we will use our lives.

Carl Sagan: The Story of Everything [Carl Sagan Tribute Series, Part 11]

All parts of the series are equally beautiful, so I would highly recommend watching those as well.

Spring? Syke.

Well this has been an interesting day. Woke up “on time” (alarm went off at 8, slept in until ~9 when I got up for class), and found out my class was online since my professor got stuck at home due to snow. At that point there was only an inch or two at most on the ground which isn’t much for Rochester, but that was sure changed by the end of the day. So essentially I got to act like my first – and only – class of the day was at 2 in the afternoon :)

 An inspirational technical text from RIT:

Earlier this evening, some email messages going in or out of campus, or to/from Exchange and Google Apps were delayed unusually long due to the weather.

While this doesn’t necessarily make sense, I’d be curious to know the actual details behind the incident. Sleep and homework comes first though.

Minor Dot Update

So I updated this site/blog a while ago when I changed hosting servers with the intent of actually updating it. It’s now over 3 months later (wow, time travels fast) and that same Pardon the Dust posting is still at the top. I guess that’s generally how college goes, no? Around the end of a semester or quarter one suddenly has lots of free time, it stays like that for a while, and then a new session of classes starts and your free time goes downhill.

My general amount of free time has definitely decreased during this spring quarter, and we’re only in the third week. It seems the mixture of classes that I’m taking, which aren’t incredibly hard (so far), have just taken over with work whether reading, writing, or analyzing texts.

2010-3 Courses:

• Information Security Policies (4050-360)
• Introduction to Databases & Data Modeling (4002-360)
• Computer Crime (0501-507)
• Financial Accounting (0101-301)
• Cultural Anthropology (0510-210)

Hopefully even though it’s the spring quarter I’ll be able to reprioritize my time make it so that I’m not up until 1 (or later) in the morning on a Tuesday doing homework for a class at 8am that same day. Last I checked this was still possible, right?

Well, I certainly hope so; we’ll see though, won’t we? :)