Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Bye bye fall quarter...

Yep, one more quarter is gone and with it almost all of my brain energy haha. I studied very very hard during the last couple of months and it seems as if I have gotten my reward... I got my final grades(Finally! I checked like twice a day for almost a week (the grades are posted on RIT's infocenter web))...

Course No Course Title Grade Type Att Ern Instructor
0511-211-90 PRIN OF MICROECONOMICS A
4 4 TISDALE
1011-208-02 COLLEGE CHEMISTRY A
4 4 COLLISON
1017-313-07 UNIV. PHYSICS III A
4 4 KERN
4003-263-01 COMP SCI FOR TRANSFERS A
5 5 ZANIBBI
4003-263-43 LABORATORY
NG 0 0 VINCENT

I got 4.0 !!! I am so happy and satisfied! I feel that this has been the quarter where I have learned the most... and thanks to God I am officially over with any math/calc/physics courses! now, I only have to enjoy the geeky courses I have left and of course get a CO-OP ASAP!


On another note, I have been working on a new project here... Build my own PVR/DVR (kind of a tivo) so I have used ubuntu and mythtv and it is working like a charm, I can watch TV from any computer in the house, schedule recordings , check the weather (yeah, here it is very important to know how cold it will be!), and watch those recordings on the Xbox (softmoded xbox with xbox media center) etc. Eventually, when I get some money I will buy some small factor computers and use them as frontends and connect them to the tv and to the backend which is hosted in the basement between the 1000 of computers we have down there hahaha, I will probably post some pictures of this later this week once I get everything working perfect. Next project : Mame arcade, a life size arcade machine in which I plan to put all of the greatest and oldest games. I am looking forward to this project, I used to enjoy so much playing on those machines when I was like ~12, I remember my partner in crime (tekulin) and I spending every last penny on those arcade games! haha

So, now I will be "resting" for two weeks and then I will get back to the routine of the poor student... haha

PS: The da vinci code is soooooooo good a must see! rent it out ! it is on blockbuster!

Claudio.