Zen of Tofu

No not, “co-depleted”, it’s “Code-pleted”.

The ideas flowing through my mind, the syntax flowing through the keys; nothing could apprehend the will to change ideas to algorithm and finally to code. Red Chinese tea flows through my veins cooling my yang and enriching my blood. Obeying the “laws”, making safeguards, and being conscious of my actions I pragmatically conjured the characters to do my bidding. Braces, brackets, and quotes were carefully paired and placed to not only divide, but conquer. Semi-colons appear where ideas distinguish themselves. With some careful placement and creativity, modularity meets sequentiality; and with a touch of declaration the pieces obey to benefit the greater cause. Essentially it is the greater cause I am after, despite what it takes of the smaller elements to meet the requirements of the bigger picture. Treat the elements with a touch of insincerity or ignorance and they will not hesitate to betray you with little evidence. The mystery is discovering the evidence, the challenge is preventing the crime. Once all is solved and order is in place, only then can the greater cause be realized — or can it? If that cause has flaws within itself then the solution cannot be blamed. The one pursuing the cause is to be blamed. May it be that the cause can be invented with accurate precision so a solution is truthfully a solution.

That’s the story of my latest programming assignment.
Time to complete: approx. 3 days (sadly)
From typing out the code, drawing diagrams, and debugging with gdb, it has all concluded to a working (and probably buggy) program.
Let’s hope for the best. But meanwhile bring on more tea!

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I’m so excited! Indeed I did receive my MacBook on Friday night! In fact I’m typing this entry right now on it. From the moment I unpacked it from the box to the moment I watched the screen come to life, I was truly amazed. I am an Apple believer now. Not enough of a believer to delve into iPod culture but I still use iTunes to get my podcasts and listen to my music.

For now I need to get back to two of my many assignments that are due this week. I’ll be slowly making a new page on the site dedicated to the MacBook (ie. Photos) and sometime this week I’ll give a little review on my experience this far. I’m still running on the high for this laptop, so I’ll be channeling that to my coding assignment. Bust out the coffee and the code! It’s coding time!

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Wow, what a day it was today. From being late to class, meeting new people, and shoveling hard snow, it all brought back memories of what Winter is supposed to be like. Unlike the past month or two which were filled with beautiful weather, today was an absolute disaster for anyone in the transportation sector. Accidents/collisions were everywhere. From a truck carrying oxygen to cars ending up in ditches, today had a little bit of everything to make the commute a nightmare. The forecast calls for more weather like this for the coming days and I’m not looking forward to it. This unpredictable weather throws my schedule off and when my schedule is off, I’m not a happy camper. Ever since my incident in first year due to bad weather and a timed lab test, I’ve been keen on keeping to a set schedule as best as possible. So far it has gone well and I’ve rarely been late for any class. Now the weather seeks to challenge me. I will prevail.

In other news, I found out I got an extra $50 off my K790, which is sweet since this thing wasn’t cheap! Also, tomorrow I’m going back to the coding practice for one of my classes. I haven’t programmed anything serious in a whole year. The most was this website and some MIPS assembly language. i guess that is kind of serious but it sure didn’t feel like it. Now with C at my side, I must code like I’ve never coded before! Object orientation flies out the window in C and so does the idea of creating objects or new classes. Everything is structural and procedural. That’s the way I preferred my programming at the beginning. So I better get back to my reading. I just thought I’d throw some ideas out and play with them on keyboard.

P.S. Has anyone seen the movie “Akeelah and the Bee”? I saw it on the weekend and it was surprisingly good! Thanks again TMN!

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