A New Phase - posted by magicite
I suppose it's high-time that I gave another update on myself. Lessee here...
Contrary to most of the advice, suggestions, and preferences of most everyone I know, I opted to accept a full-time job with Cray, and transitioned from part-time pseudo-intern to full-time after taking my finals in May. So, I left the U of M with a Master of Science in Computer Science. Which apparently is different from a Masters of Computer Science (and considered to be inferior). I did not know this until I got to the paperwork stage (and actually filled stuff out wrong once. oops). When I didn't go to school when classes started a week ago, it was strange simply because it was the first time I "missed the first day of school" since pre-school in 1989. Yikes!
I purchased a new bike at the end of May, and beginning in July, I started to bike to work as often as I could (10 miles each way). I ended up biking 2-3 times a week until the middle of August, when I got lazy and stopped doing it. Plus, I realized the bike I purchased (or as I like to say, the bike I was sold by someone more knowledgeable than I, who should have known better) is actually too small for me, and so excessive usage will destroy my knees. Anyway, that gave me an excuse to sleep in instead of biking ... :)
Hrmm, I read a bunch of books this summer, both fiction and non-fiction. One of them was the Lord of the Rings series, which I had never gotten around to reading. I was rather impressed by how well the movies matched the books.
My roommate moved out in mid August to pursue his own graduate school career in St. Cloud, so I'm currently looking for a new roommate. Currently it's looking like that person will be my brother. We've been looking at some places in the St. Paul area. We found a nice place in Mendota Heights, but unfortunately, of the three apartment shapes available, the one we liked was not available in a configuration we prefer (corner unit, top floor).
I've found it interesting to observe nearly all of my friends and acquaintances abandon there blogs over time, or post very infrequently (myself included, of course). This happens for one of two reasons, as far as I can tell: boredom, and moving on. As for moving on, the obvious avenue is something like twitter. But it makes me wonder if things like twitter are just fads themselves, or if they'll stick around for some time. I know the gut reaction of most is to believe that, yes indeed, it is but a fad.
That's all for now.
Ottergoose says: Dangit, my advice to ditch school for the real world was specifically contingent upon receiving the MCS, not MSCS. I'd like to take this opportunity to express my profound disappointment.
Blogs are falling out of favor because most "life updates" from most people don't really need more than a sentence or two. Looking over my latest pile of tweets, I see a lot of stuff that backs this up... "biked x miles to y," "doing x with y," etc.
In other words, twitter is what people thought they'd do with blogs, before they realized that life isn't an English assignment - we don't need 4 paragraphs to know what you just ate for dinner.
