todd blog

I'm having difficulty finding spots to lock my bike this year. I had to park on an abandoned bike.

College is that strange time where people pretend to be a nutritionists/vegetarians, but they'll still consume half their body weight in alcohol while doing a headstand. "Donuts are bad for you! I'll take a couple shots instead." -Not an actual quote.

Chang got hit by a car while riding his bike on campus.

Corn bread and chicken.

I sit on wooden kindergarten chairs in some of my classes. My arms touch my neighbors' arms.

People will look at you weird if you pull out a camera 12 minutes before class starts, even if you pretend like you're texting with it.

Take notes? Having a pencil and paper keeps me awake sometimes.

College, too bad I don't have an excuse to talk to any of these people.

The bay.

Socy of crime.

It's like one of those annoying dudes who tells you need to drink lots of water and make your urine clear instead of yellow.

It's only one in the mornin', you should be out ridin' your fixie or somethin'. My eyes hurt too.

Circle wheelie practice session.

Half circle objective complete.

I don't ride Hermione as much as I should. She doesn't get me to class on time like Frigg does.

I feel academically hazed by comp sci projects. I feel like I have a special bond with other UMD comp sci majors simply because we all have to neglect any possibility of having a busy social life, instead we spend hundreds of hours on projects. Frat bros feel a similar bond because they were all raped by the same wooden stick. Yikes, I'm being harsh tonight. Sorry.

What's that?

Dang it! I'm trying to get through college, I don't want to think about yer crazy religion stuff.

Building the ultimate gaming comp is like trying to find the end of an infinite loop.

I can't read yer writing on the wall.

The subwoofers go booom booom. It's only 8 in da mohnin, ya spose be up cookin breakfast o somethin by then. It's like an alarm clock booom booooom.

Todd likes how his CS professor gave out a project with test code that can't compile on the school's computers we're required to use. I enjoyed spending hours debugging the prof's code that's supposed to test the code I was supposed to be working on today. Freaking college. The professor's code had errors and wouldn't compile on the school's computers.

Cold weather so soon?

How are you doing? Do you need help writing a socy thesis? Need some wheelie advice? "Use your sociological imagination!"

My user name was put in someone's youtube video. I feel special.

Todd was biking back from Giant, man says "watch out, the guys under the pavilion have guns." Minutes later he tried to rob Chang, but Chang got away. "Get that shit out!"

College Park.

Back inside to safety...

Holy freaking balls this can't be healthy.

Sociology of Harley culture.

Potion making.

Riding over rocks.

We wish we were awesome trial bikers.

YAAARRR!!! Assembly is so COOL! I'm slightly annoyed by the people (elite comp kids) who laugh at the noobs in class when they ask questions. Everyone starts out at level 1, just because you learned assembly in 6th grade doesn't...blablabla. Just don't ask how to write code on a Mac the day a project is due. (How did you make it to 300-level comp sci classes?)

Taking two project-based comp sci classes in a semester hurts. Some of the projects tickle my nerd fancy (sorry), if only they could be slightly less difficult and time consuming. The second project in computer organization was basically teaching the basics of how to get past primitive CD key protection. We had to disassemble "the bomb" and read through the assembly instructions to figure out what the algorithms were for the different phases. The next project is on buffer overflows...