Florida

In about six hours Shiho and I will be catching a bus to the airport then fly to Florida. Shi-chan is so excited to go to Disney World :D We're gonna have a blast! Woohoo!

XP Filter-fucking-keys

Arrrgh! This is so irritating! Somebody shoot that fucking moron at M$ who is responsible of the Filterkeys function! Every time you press the shift key for more than 8 seconds, this dialog window pops up and ask you if you want to turn on Filterkeys. If you click ok, nothing works; if you click no, then shift is stuck. Either way you're fucked! What kind of accessibility option is that if it makes your keyboard inaccessible?!

That shit just happened to me AGAIN. While I was working on the ASA website, I pressed shift for more than 8 seconds while I was thinking. Then the notorious pop-up appeared and my keyboard was all fucked up. I went thought all the options in Accessibility Options in Control Panel, but nope, no luck. So I rebooted. Out of irritation, I googled (shoulda done this a million years ago) and found a solution. *** Hold down both shift keys at the same time *** and your keyboard is back in normal. Well, this sounds like some kind of cheat code of some old-school Nintendo game, doesn't it. Anyway, praise the lord and may that retard be condemned to hell!

Desolate

Sigh, looks like it's gonna be a lonely weekend.

Shiho went to the city to meet up with her friends from Japan. She just called me and said she hasn't met them for two years. Hmm, I guess that mean Raira(sp?) because she saw Rika this summer. Anyway, my baby sounded pretty excited and I'm glad to hear that. I can't wait to go to the city with her before we go back to Taiwan and Japan. Oh, and Florida too! It's only two weeks or so away, woohoo!

Chris left for Ohio for his cousin's 21 birthday. I used my credit card to cover the rental because he couldn't swallow the 300 houndred dollars deposit. The camery he got looked really nice. I gotta get myself one of those when I get out of school.

Well, since it's gonna be a quite week, might as well do some studying. Or read the new book I bought, What do you care what other people think?. Looks like a pretty interesting read.

Work at Cooper Gym

Woohoo! I've got a job at Cooper Gym!

Tonight when we were about to leaving the dining hall, my buddy at the gym Denar(sp?) stopped me and asked me if I want a job or not. I asked him what is it and he said he's the coordinator and his boss told me to look out for someone who might be interested because there was an opening. Then he thought of me because I am at the gym almost everyday. Well, 5 days a week to be exact. I take two days off every week, not even doing cardio. This is so great! I know the pay is not much, any on-campus doesn't bring you a fat paycheck anyway. This is what I've always wanted to do, to work at the gym. Why? Because it excites me everytime I go work out and I like the gym a lot. Besides, people who work there are also into working out as well and there are lots of hot girls over there. Guys with good physique are good to look at too. No, not becasue I'm gay, but because seeing someone in a great shape motivates to work out even harder. I can also observe what their routines are so that I can learn something. I want to start as soon as possible!

While browsing Ars Forum tonight, I came across a nice thread and found out about GNU Win32. This project ported many useful commands of Unix to the Windows platform. Nice!

AI1

I had a great class this afternoon.

I'm taking CSC416, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, this semester. Up untill now, the only thing we had been doing was learning LISP and writing programs using one of it's variant, Common LISP. Yes, from the lectures we knew that LISP is popular language for artificial intelligence research. But other than that, we didn't talk about AI all that much. But last class, Graci showed us Grundy's Game, and talke about state space interpretation of game playing and game trees. Things started to get interesting. Then in today's class, we played Reversi, or sometimes called Othello, which is a strategy game taking place on a 8 by 8 grid with two players represented by two different colors. Player make their moves by putting a piece that will out-flank the opponent's pieces. To win the game you have to have pieces of your color than your opponent's when the game ends (no empty cell left). It is simple yet heavily stragety-involved. Graci used this game to talk about static value function and look-ahead tree/heuristic. This sounds like what those AI programs in computer games are doing. It's so interesting! And the game, Reversi, itself is very intriguing as well. Even though it sounded like a real tough job when he said we're gonna write a program of Reversi as a final project, I was still happy that I can take a class like this. Graci might not be the most interseting person in the world, but he is a true geek, and I say it in a good way, and he knows how to teach. Just like Mohammadi, he is one of my favorite professors here in OSU. I'm thinking about taking AI2 next semester. Hmm... I should talk to my adviser, Odendahl, soon.

Risk milestone 1

Dang it, we're supposed to either demo in class our Risk project or hand in the source code today. But we're far from delivering a workable program. Fvck!

I've found a open-sourced Java based Risk online. I'll have to study the code and see when I can learn from it. Can't go on like this anymore. I want to at least be able to write a functional program before I get out of Oswego.

ASA Halloween Party

Yesterday was the second Halloween I had in the U.S. As one of the E-Board members of ASA, I had to help decoration and do shifts while the party was on-going.

There weren't a lot of people in the party. It's a shame because we put in quite some time and manpower. Well, at least I had a good time with my cutie witch.