The Raven Deconstructed
March 18th, 2009 by Brian
CSE 466 final project presentation in the CSE building atrium tomorrow morning. The project specification is here.

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…
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.