ResNet's Return

In the hope that my ResNet connection will be up as soon as possible, I'll start writing this now. (If you're reading this on Monday, it's worked.) Actually, last night I went down to the John Honey Building - the new one hasn't been finished yet, you see - to try and sneakily use the online application form to get my connection up before the start of the week, but it seems that it can't be used until Freshers' Week is over. That's most unhelpful.

In addition, the Linux computers, slow and clunky as they were, have been replaced with Macs. I wrote an entry very similar to this one while I was down there, and in this place I had a paragraph about how Macs weren't so bad once you get to know them, especially as whinknee is doing her best to teach me how to use hers. However, between me finishing the entry and clicking "Submit" it told me that Safari had exited unexpectedly, and naturally my entry had vanished along with it. So I'm afraid Macs don't have the best standing with me at the moment - in addition, the iMacs in the lab are the silliest-looking computers I've ever seen, looking more like pieces of modern art than office equipment.

Going back in time a little, making sure that this entry isn't in chronological order, the process of getting things out of the car and unpacking took a lot less time than I expected thanks to gr33bo's help. (I'll buy you a game of DDR later, or something.) I haven't yet tried my key in the lock of Room 70 by mistake, but my new room confuses me. Everything is the other way around - it's as if I've reached Level 2 of University and gone in to Mirror Mode, or some equally stupid analogy. The lock is also the other way round, meaning that I have to get used to turning the key the other way - but that's just because the lock on Room 70 seems to be the other way round from every single other lock in the entire building. At least I have far more shelves than before.

In the confusion after getting back from the Union, though, my parents left before I remembered to give them back all the cases and boxes that I'd taken with me. The result is that I have several cubic metres of cardboard boxes in my room and it's rather difficult to move around. I don't want to throw them out because I'll need them to take things back up - I think I'll put them down to the trunk room. When's that open? Monday? How inconvenient.

At least there's some good news. Kenny and Sam (so observantly likened to Kermit and Miss Piggy by prophettenebrae earlier) are no more, and in their place we have what seems so far to be the best wardenial team ever. Steve Yorkstone is far friendlier than Kenny ever was, and has more of a personality (i.e. some). He even recognised who I was when I came back from the Union last night, and talked to me about my life at University so far. That's far better than the last warden, out of whom you'd be lucky to get a few mumbles and a nod to acknowledge that you were living in his hall.

It seems a rather slow start to the year. I'd forgotten how much the university (or at least my part of it) relies on ResNet for everything. I'll probably go down to the JHB a bit later on and see what's happening in the world outside.

(Time for first Prince run-through of the year: 42:03! Just twenty seconds off the world record now. All right, I'll stop reporting these now, I promise.)

Some of my humour, and some other people's humour.

I was very pleased to find, on getting back to the John Honey Building, that the collection of computer science "humour" that we drew up there survived the entire summer. (This was a project which we put together that day when we were "revising".) You can view it here. You can see evidence of someone starting to clean it off in the bottom right, but they must have decided to leave it in the end - someone even wrote a logic equation in the middle of it all, leaving it undisturbed.

In addition, as I've already hinted at to some and revealed to others, I've still been taking a few items for the famous IRC log. The latest compilation, from the start until the end of summer, is now online - the IRC Log 2 and a bit.