Oops, maybe I should update this thing more often. Things that are going on in my life, in bullet-point form:

• Listening to the Beatles a lot
• Working on Rawhide Frontier, my senior design project
• Learned a bit of a new programming language
• Seeing someone new, which is pretty awesome-great
• Getting ready for rest-of-life (aka end of “college”, even though I’ve got two more quarters, it won’t be quite the same after the kids are all graduated)
• Shaking my fists at Haskell Conference 2006, because it’s 7 days after I leave the west coast. The founder of the OSU Opensource Club is on the board and I recently met him.
• Reaffirmed my love for Lisp, the one true programming language.
• Looking forward to Microsoft and Seattle this summer, it should be really awesome. Lots of hacking the gibson will be done.

PS: I just tried to type “:w” into a HTML textbox. I think I’ve been using Vim too long…

Alright, after coming to terms with school a bit, I’ve decided that it’s not nearly as bad as it seemed earlier. I think that I start to feel this way when it happens that a bunch of unrelated things don’t work by random chance. I think that I can turn this quarter around for the most part; it’s time to get the awesome back.

In other news, my music for Patrick’s dance piece went really well, people are already asking me to do sound / music for their pieces as well. For being a computer scientist, I think I’m actually really good at it. I mean, when the famous dance professor in the best undergraduate dance program in the US says your arrangement is good, that’s gotta mean something (I “suck less”, as Mick Shaull used to say).

I also heard something somewhat intriguing at dinner; evidently Patrick’s planning to move to Germany next year and start a company, of which I would strongly consider joining to do the music for, were he to ask me. I don’t think I’m quite ready to find myself boxed into a cubicle quite yet, and since moving to Europe was already pretty high on my list of what I want to do when I graduate, moving to Europe + writing music would be even better. No, I take that back; it’d be better than ‘better’, it’d be fucking amazing. Not only that, I could get involved in the huge Open Source movement in Europe. After I do that for awhile, I could possibly end up going back to school, get my Masters in CS, and settle down with a Real Job(tm), or who knows? Maybe I’d end up doing music for a long time. So many possibilities!

Now all I have to do is decide what I actually want to do…

Initially, it’s somewhat of a curiosity that almost everyone on this planet enjoys music of some form. But after thinking about it, it’s obvious that all of the people on the planet like music, because those who dislike music didn’t survive.

Earlier in the year, my friend Andy whom I was in an ill-fated band in two years ago Emailed me and asked if I wanted to record some tracks with his new band that didn’t have a bass player. Since playing bass with people is awesome, I did it up. Turns out now the tracks are on Myspace:

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We’re playing March 8th at Ian’s place, wherever that is. Our ultimate goal is to play at Larry’s, which for some reason has a website. Turns out I may get $3.00 as well, although I’d just as well play for free, maybe we can negotiate that (“No! $0.50 is my final offer!”)

I think that In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel is one of the most amazing songs I’ve heard in a long fucking time. Way too few bands take advantage of the trombone solo.