And how was your day?

Posted on April 18, 2009

Me, well I got in trouble with secret services ;-/ Should have told them something else when whey asked why I’m photographing them. ‘I’am a terrorist’ was not a very smart answer.

So they questioned me a little, tested how canadian I am (Who are in playoffs, the name of the Montreal Canadians goalie. etc etc), but since I was not doing anything illegal, they let me go. Cool guys, but very intimidating.

Photodump http://www.flickr.com/photos/79448018@N00/sets/72157616973235609/show

Photodumps

Posted on March 22, 2009

I uploaded bunch of photodumps here. Some are photos dull, some are interesting. I’m trying, but it’s hard to take an interesting photo. First of all I need to go out, and look for them, photographs of my feet in bed will not impress anyone. Then there is timing issue, photographs look good if they are taken in the early morning or in the evening. So I have only few hours to find and take a good picture. And lack of artistic talent is also a nuisance.

Anyway, I’m glad that I bought the camera, I have more reasons to go out, and now I do it much more often.The only problem, it’s an expensive hobby, now I want to buy more lens. I want super-wide 10-20mm Sigma for $760 and $570 70-300mm telephoto zoom from Nikkor… I need to do some consulting  ;-)

Random droping

Posted on March 2, 2009

So the cryppy storry: two weeks ago I went to the park by the river, basically a trail in the bushes, you know. So I walking there taking photos, enjoying the view. Not a lot of people around, met maybe 5 in a hour. Most say “Bonjour” as they pass (it was in La Belle Province side of the river). So I meet some other guy there (men in his 40ties), he tells me something like “Hello. Nice day today… not a lot of people today..” I say “Yeah.” and keep walking my way.

Then I notice that I he keeps following me. Well OK, there are not alot of forks on the road, maybe it’s just a coincidence. So I make my own trail through the snow. He follows me. Now that’s just creepy. So I started to walk back were I left my car (~10 minutes from where I met him). He follows. Maybe he has some bad ideas, maybe he just wanted to find the way out of the trail maze, but it was kinda….uncannily.

Extremely confused

Posted on February 25, 2009

When I finally got my bachelor degree, I applied to graduate school but I did not really expect them to accept me, I planed to relax during the summer and then start looking for a job. It was a really big surprise when instead for “we are sorry to inform you” letter I received a letter of acceptance. It was a difficult decision to make.

Anyway I finished the semester, got my A’s and decided to see what kind of job offers I would get. It only took me a week to get 3 interviews and two offers. I accepted a 4 month internship offer from IBM. When I accepted the offer I expected to work for 4 month and then go back to school. When they mentioned they they have very special internship called “Extreme Blue” (600 application for 4 positions) I was not even really curious, I had other plans…

I always work hard, I’m too young to be complacent, I guess my boss noticed that and talked to IBM Extreme Blue managers at our lab, they scheduled an interview and the next day I got an offer. Right now I feel really confused, I don’t feel like I’m in control in my life, unscheduled good things just happen.

I will accept the offer and see where it would lead me…

Photodump4

Posted on February 17, 2009

Be warned: the internet is still overloaded with the technical people who invented it. (Geeky P.S: and isn’t it amazing? Most of the important Computer Science guys are still alive!)

horsies

Posted on February 2, 2009

Sometimes I think that I should get a girlfriend. But then I do nothing to advance that goal.

I think, that I think, that gf is like a horse — once i get one, I will have fun sure, but I will also have to maintain it, take care of it and if I don’t want one anymore it would be difficult to get rid of.

This is why I think I don’t have one. Lazy, horseless bum.

Warm saturday!

Posted on January 31, 2009

Finally I can venture outside.And I would be happy to do just that if only I understood parking rules. It usually goes like this: I arrive where I want to be, and then I start looking for a parking spot, yet I never can find any.

I blame the gouverment! they let me pass my the theory tests with minimal possible score on all sections. Anyway spots where I know I can park are taken, spots I’m not sure about are taken, and the spots where I can’t park are taken too.

So, I park in a far away land, far from parking signs.

So,  outside. Right. Like a tourist! Well I went and took some photos. I got hungry and went to “Baby and Dingos” bar. I asked for baby, but apparently dingos ate it. Instead I had fish and chips.  And got drunk on purpose. What else could I do on such wonderful day in Ottawa. I don’t know anyone here, other inters don’t want to go anywhere and I don’t even have a good camera.

So, the sun started to shine brighter, birds sung, and I became more sociable. I even asked aboriginal Ottawian, what camera should I buy. ;-)

(The good part about working is money. I can spend them on food and booze. I tried to spend then on something else but I coudn’t decide what I need. All I mastered is a Wall-e toy. Just because I saw the movie and I liked it. But I don’t need it. So what am i gonna do with all the money I make?)

So thinking all that, and bunch of other thinks that bother me. I figured I’m a broken  human, and got really depressed.

Here are almost all the photos I  made since I bought the new cell phone.

Week 3

Posted on January 30, 2009

My blog is not my diary. Some posts are blogworthy, some are not.

Anyway, I guess proress report would be appropriate, it’s been 18 days after all.

I guess so far I can divide then in three parts, first week I did not know anything, second week I was desperate and now I’m back to the comfort zone.  At the begining when they gave me a project, I really did not know where to begin, I was reading source code, asking people, basically gathering all the informating I could. Then I started working towards my final goal. This was the most frustraiting part beccause I moved so slowly. So many components moving independently, some in unison some on thier own. It’s hard to create a correct static and dynamic mental models of the working system. Basic strategy was fuck aroud the system with debugger, and trace the executing to see what it does.I was feling pretty desperate, the old system was working OK, but my port was getting 20-80% success rate. And it was unreprodusable (application is multithreaded and distributed).And then the laky break. I found what caused the problem.

The third part is easy, I completed the solution, polished the details and wrote the documentation.

Using a PDP-11/10 to Teach Computer Organization

Posted on January 17, 2009

Using a PDP-11/10 to Teach Content and History in Computer Organization Courses

I found those videos very interesting. Probably only geeks will appreciate them.

http://www.youtube.com/v/XV-7J5y1TQc

http://www.youtube.com/v/7zaaD_xP6nU

http://www.youtube.com/v/xiE2QldpQRQ

http://www.youtube.com/v/NUSn59iY8U8

Day 3

Posted on January 14, 2009

I did not blog yesterday because I was too tired. And after I signed the contract with my blood, I can’t say much about my work.

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