Boing.

Let's see, what have I been doing? I went to California for 9 days. Then I came back, did 1km in a wheelchair relay, spent $1000 at IKEA, graduated from University, cleaned parts of my house that were recently vacated by the departing roommates, made fastidious efforts to dissipate the scent of ferrets, assembled furniture, sat in meetings at work which I learned of minutes before they were scheduled due to a mailing list screwup, built kernel packages, hacked evil Perl, took some amusing, free online exams. Oh, and I did some work.

The C exam had lots of questions about multidimensional arrays, and the Unix exam had lots of questions about SysV IPC. Somehow that strikes me as fundamentally wrong, although I guess there is some value in understanding these things so that you know why you should never, ever use them. But nonetheless, I did pretty well on both, and even better on the Perl exam (which I could do a long hatchet job on here, but I don't feel like wasting the electrons).

Graduation was fun. The one thing that struck me above all was how it all looked like a medieval court. The chancellor and rector (Queen and King) were seated in what were essentially thrones, wearing robes, with the faculty (nobles and clergy) arranged behind them, in a variety of costumes and hats. Also due to the fact that Arts and Religious Studies were sharing this particular ceremony, there were a fair number of Church guys in even funnier hats.

Yes, I have an Arts degree (summa cum laude, baby).