Moving out in a month, this time for real

2008-04-03 01:36 AM | 2 comments

It's notable how the tone of this site has changed recently. Most of my posts lately are about the wireless industry in Canada, or other hot button topics that I can rant about without giving a personal view of the situation - apart from being a CS student with clearly too many cell phones, today's posts aren't all about me.

Offtopic: Perhaps this is a good thing: I was accosted several weeks ago by someone I attended high school with and told "I shouldn't write about people that I don't know anything about." The world does not work this way, and "know[ing] anything" was misused in place of "don't say anything if you don't have anything nice to say tell me what I want to hear." Likewise, hilarity would not ensue if I were prevented from writing about Soulja Boy.

(I did indeed attend a semester of classes with this individual, which is a decent basis for knowing at least SOMETHING about someone. For what it's worth, I don't even remember the post, and a quick perusal of my former site didn't turn up the allegedly inflammatory remarks.)

Apart from this, though, I'm almost done my first semester back at UW out of two. Of my courses, CS246 has been the most interesting and informative; I'd say my command line C++ skills are now significantly improved.

The big news, though, is that on May 1st I'll be moving out from home again. I'll still be in Waterloo, but living with some friends for a year. It's something I've really been looking forward to; there might even be a good business idea when we're all in reasonably close proximity. Significant downsizing of personal effects will be necessary, and all I've essentially done is trade a basement room 20 minutes away from school for a basement room 5 minutes away.

Still, exciting news and interesting times ahead.

Comments

Adam on 2008-04-03 04:11 PM (#)

Whatever. You "shouldn't write" as if you're governed by someone else's judgement on what is 'right'. You're right on the mark for calling BS on that. Really, what it comes down to is that there's a lot of people who use the Internet as a means to pick a fight and raise a shitstorm.

(Wow, Jake, writing in your blog comments have become really cathartic for me)

You're braver than me for learning any C+(anything) skills. My brain just wouldn't accept that knowledge.

Good luck with the move!

Jake Billo on 2008-04-03 06:39 PM (#)

Thanks Adam. I guess I could be considered one of the people that raises trouble online, but I'm fairly qualified when I write: I can have an opinion about someone that isn't all sunshine and roses, and in these cases there are a litany of reasons why I'd feel that way. This case was particularly interesting, because it involved someone I probably wouldn't even acknowledge if I saw them in passing - and the "you shouldn't do that, shame, shame" felt only as if they wanted "the last word." Whatever.

The C++ I'm doing for the course is just command line stuff, nothing huge, but it's worthwhile to see how such a powerful language actually works. When you step into the debugger, you can see exactly how (for example) a string object is constructed and interacts at a system level.

And the move - it's still a big step for me, since I'm still on good terms with the parents and could probably ride out a few more years here. Definitely something I need to do for myself though, and the sooner the better.

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