Archive for October, 2005

My 1000 word essay on Calculus 3.

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Triple Integrals
Chapter 16, Sect. 7, #13 on pg 1066. Evaluate the triple integral of the bounded region.

All I want for Christmas…

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

… is one of the brand new iMacs.

Part Number: Z0CL
Product Name: 20″ iMac G5 2.1GHz PowerPC
Options:
065-5882 1.5GB 533 DDR2 SDRAM - 1×512, 1×1GB
065-5885 500GB Serial ATA drive
065-5875 SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
065-5796 None
065-5886 Apple Wireless Keyboard & Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
065-5867 Accessory kit
Net Price: $2,103.00 w/ student discount
Estimated time to ship: 5-7 weeks

SUBTOTAL: $2,103.00

Any takers? Haha, yeah right. I’ll probably buy myself one sometime next year, if I save up enough money & sell my PC.

ACM SE Regionals

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

For a more statistical replay of the ACM SE Regionals, here’s the UCF team’s advisor:

Our 23-year-old record of “top three in the southeast” continued for another year, thanks to our excellent team members.

Georgia Tech (coached by a former UCF team member) and UCF finished 9 out of the 11 problems in the programming contest. They used “penalty points” for tie-breaker and we finished 2nd.

All of our five teams did very well in the field of 65 teams, finishing 2nd, 4th, 11th, 15th and 19th (two in top 10 and all in top 20). The highest UF team finished 3rd (they had a former UCF team member on that team!). The highest FSU team finished 31st.

Regards,
Ali Orooji

You know you’re at a programming contest when….

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

This weekend I competed at the southeast ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. So, I’ve made the following list in celebration:

You know you’re at a programming contest when….

The first thing you do after getting settled into your hotel room is go over to Best Buy to look at Anime and video games.

When your group accidentally goes up the wrong stairs in the hotel, someone says “we should have tried a breadth-first search, not a depth-first search.” And everyone laughs.

You wear your shirt, and everyone gets it.

The two people hanging out in your hotel room the night before the contest have a 2 hour conversation telling stories about Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft.

You’re having dinner with your professor and teammates. The professor starts conversations about drinking and parties, yet your teammates start conversations comparing the syntax of programming languages.

Moved Hosting

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Sorry for any downtime of any of the websites that I host over the past two days. I’m in the middle of moving hosts. I’ve still got one website left to move. Word to the wise, for any web developers out there: never, ever, EVER use ImHosted.com, they are the least reliable host I’ve ever seen.

You know you’re having a rough semester when…

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

…the class that you feel most secure in the clarity of learning and ease of the class, is Calculus 3.

Free Falafel and Family Guy @ UCF by BARC

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Free Falafel and Family Guy at UCF

That’s right. Next week, free falafel and Family Guy, care of the Body of Animal Rights Campaigners. There might also be cake. Only while supplies last.

Not a good stock market day for Microsoft

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

I’ve been thinking about buying some stock soon. Google would have been a good choice at the beginning, but now I fear it is too inflated. Microsoft might be a good option just before Vista will be released, but that might not be for a while. Adobe and Macromedia are merging, but who knows when or how that will go. Of course there are non-technology stocks that I could go for, but technology is all I know. Hmm.

Central Florida Veg Fest

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Central Florida’s Veg Fest is tomorrow. Free food, live music, and more. You and everyone you know should come!