The Reading Party (or: Three-Day Skive)

Oh, the Livejounal. Yes, I remember that. Actually, it's been so long since I updated this because of the reading party in the middle of the week (a great excuse to have a five-day weekend if ever there was one) and I never got around to typing it all up here. It was quite strange, in a way, to see the fun side of some of the lecturers, even the ones who are the most serious normally.

The Burn was a very nice place, with some genuinely beautiful grounds - I have a lot of photos that I took while walking around, which I may or may not upload later on. We even had a tennis court, croquet and a full size snooker table. Of course, as computer science students we instead spent most of the time playing Burnout 3 and having competitions to see who could cause the biggest crash, but no matter.

My presentation, which was on the Internet versus the music industry, was received as one of the more entertaining of them, but I thought afterwards that it didn't really come to any sort of conclusion at all. A few of the others were amusing - especially Nils, whose subject was "The Biggest Gun". I thought that it would be a clever computing metaphor, but instead he marched up to the front and proceeded to talk about heavy artillery and his time in the Swedish Army - and how he once vaporised a reindeer by managing to aim 800 metres off target.

Some of the others were quite excruciating, though. I don't know what drove some people to talk on "The Architectural Improvements Between the x86 and the x86-64" or "Distributed Control Systems", though, but they were nice to doze through. Until some of them started lasting over an hour - then it was just excruciating. During one such talk, one of the lecturers went through and bought the talker a bottle of beer to shut him up.

Since then, I had some confusion as to what day of the week it was (because the middle of the week was a weekend), especially on Saturday when I thought it was Monday and started getting up to go to lectures.

In the absence of any important news, I can proudly say that today, I passed the Hard 1 course on DDR for the very first time. I've already ordered a set of replacement feet.