27th August 2003, 11:14 pm
Today was a rather long day with five hours of lectures from 10 in the
morning to 15 in the afternoon — the longest day so far :-) When I got
home I had two plays with Thomas Jacobsen (a nice guy from the fourth floor
here at [Skejbygård][]) on our table soccer game. I won the first game and
lost the second so that was okay.
Then here in the evening we saw IMDB:Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,
The (2002) on DVD. Really nice movie although I don’t like the way
Gimli is portraied as the comic sidekick and how they’ve changed the story
by dragging Frodo and Sam all the way to Osgiliath. I remember Faramir as
much wiser from the book, but perhaps it’s because it’s been too long
since I’ve read it.
It was also a pretty long movie: the DVD player showed two hours and 46
minutes when I stopped it. We have a movie club here at [Skejbygård][]
where we rent and show a movie each Wednesday at 20 o’clock.
Tomorrow also looks like a busy day. I have a lecture on Complex Functions
from 12 to 14 and then an appointment at the hairdresser at 14:15. At
18:30 Thomas Mølhave will be taking me with him to karate practice
— I’ve never tried anything remotely like it so it will be interesting
to see how it goes. We’ll be done at 20 and then head for [Skejbygård][]
where we’ll be taking our new bar into use for the first time. I’ve
invited a lot of people from my class to I’m sure that it will be a cool
party. Luckily none of us have any lectures on Friday (except for
RuneThorbek who does have a single lecture if I remember correctly…). So
a long and exciting day awaits me tomorrow, I’ll go to sleep now.
21st August 2003, 02:35 pm
I’ve got myself some new toys this summer: a new computer and a
digital camera. I haven’t yet written about the new computer but in short,
then it’s the most quiet machine I’ve ever seen. It’s a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4
with 2×512 MiB PC3200 DDR RAM. The power supply and harddisk is the ones I
talked about in March. The case is from Noise Control and has Magic
Fleece fur on the inside. So I have a fair amount of computer power packed
in a box with furs and only a single fan for the CPU. That’s a bit too good
to be true, and it is for the heat cannot escape fast enough. I’ve
therefore had to open the box a little to prevent my harddrive from
crashing.
The digital camera is a Sony DSC-V1. You can go and read the reviews at the
Digital Photo Review, the Digital Camera Resource Page og Steves
Digicams. It’s a very nice camera and I’ve already taken some 450 shots
with it. Most of the shots are useless and I’ll throw them away but there
are a couple of nice ones in between. My only complaint about the camera
is the size: it’s too deep to fix in a pocket so you have to carry it
around in your hand or perhaps in a little bag. I’ll write more about it
and put up some pictures when I get time.
21st August 2003, 10:44 am
Wow it’s been a long time since I’ve last updated GimpsterDotCom, as I’m
sure many of you will agree… I just wanted to relax this summer and part
of that was to ignore my website for two months — go figure.
But the site hasn’t lied still while I was gone. People have used the
oppotunity to mess up a whole lot of pages. I’ve restored them again, but
if I’ve missed something, then mail me. It also no longer possible
for everybody to edit the pages without as a consequence of that mess.
I’ve spend my summer holidays home in Denmark doing nothing special really.
I’ve visited my mom and dad a couple of times but other than that I’ve
stayed here at [Skejbygård][]. There I’ve had a lot of really good times
with all the nice people that live here.
But now it’s almost over — I’ve start again next Monday. Then it’s
homework, lectures and assignments again. But it will be fun: I’m
attending a course on compilers, languages and their semantics
and complex analysis.