CSE 466 final project presentation in the CSE building atrium tomorrow morning. The project specification is here.

I know I always comment about how life goes quickly and I’m sounding like a broken record, but this quarter has flown by. In about a week, I’ll be finished with everything and ready to graduate.

I spent most of today doing some Linux kernel hacking and writing a sound driver from scratch. It actually loads, finds the sound card, and doesn’t crash when I try to play or record now. Of course, nothing comes out of the speaker yet, but hopefully it’s just a matter of setting the right registers now to enable stuff…

No stupid mistakes.

It’s been a while since I’ve had a perfect exam in Japanese class. I’ve come close a few times recently, but always end up making stupid mistakes, like leaving out tenten (little dots beside a character that turn an unvoiced consonant into a voiced consonant). It feels good to earn a smiley face at the top of an exam every now and then

This quarter is flying by and I’m going to graduate before I know it. Since I’ve been working mostly on just two things–my capstone project and studying Japanese–it doesn’t feel like I’ve done a lot this quarter even though I’ve been putting a huge amount of time into my project. It’s good to be making progress towards having a working product.

The weather today was really nice. I spent the whole afternoon out with my cameras taking pictures. Once I have some time to flip through what I shot (and get a couple of rolls of film developed) hopefully some of the pictures will end up here.

After going out and taking pictures, I came back exhausted and fell right asleep. When I woke up hungry and went out for food around 8, it was so pleasant outside that I felt compelled to take another stroll around campus. I love evenings in the spring.