One thing that did suck about our graduation though is that our speaker, Fabian Nunez, didn’t show up. First of all, I wasn’t too excited to hear from a California State Assembly speaker. I mean other schools get good speakers (Stanfurd with Steve Jobs, William and Mary with Jon Stewart). And since Cal is the best public university in the world, one would think that we could be able to pull someone worth listening to. Instead, we get this Fabian Nunez, who then doesn’t even show up!. There were a handful of people outside the Greek Theater picketing, thus creating a “picket line” that Nunez couldn’t cross. That is ridiculous and he just lost a vote for life. So we had our master of ceremonies give another speech instead. Thanks Fabian Nunez for making the commencement memorable for life, but not in a good way.

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I graduated! My CS graduation happened yesterday and it was a good end to 4 years.

But to celebrate my finishing finals (and my roommate doing the same), we both went out to a bar tonight, and I had loads of fun. I haven’t been out in a while, and it was great to just hang out with people, and to have some beers with friends. It also marks the end of my Junior year. But my last year is going to be even better, I mean, it has to be, it’s my last year right?

Anyways, I leave in just a couple hours for a week trip to New York, where I plan to teach them “Easterners” a thing or two about the California lifestyle. Notably, the fact that sandals can be worn any time, place, occasion, or even weather. So I plan to wear a lot of sandals. I’m hoping to take loads of pictures. This way, the Google and Yahoo web crawlers can see something new when the look at it (as if anybody else does…). To anybody reading this, have a good summer! And if your on the quarter system (which sucks for you), good luck on finals!

To study for the finals, I worked for about 45 minutes the other day trying to get an applescript to work correctly in Adium, my AIM client. The goal was to be able to pass the applescript call, in Adium, arguments, and get a live countdown til some time. However, I was having a real hard time figuring this out. I eventually gave up, and hard coded the dates into the shell script. Which isn’t as cool and versatile as I had originally planned. In fact, it wasn’t any cooler than the one I had before, just that it worked better. Now I can specify any date, not just one that is in the current month. My current away message has been of the sorts: “4 days 11 hours 22 minutes left until summer”, the time my last final ends. So, if anybody does read this, and is also talks to me on AIM, know this: if I have my away message up, I’m probably there. I sign off when I leave (usually). And, if I’m idle, that also means I’m probably there. With Adium, you can set your own custom idle, and you can still talk to people maintaining your idle and awayness. Adium is really cool and I’d actually like to try to get into some of the development. They’re pro mac, develop an app I frequently use and enjoy, and would give me valuable experience in Cocoa, and a large project. But thats probably a while away. Anyways, time to begin studying again.