School is out, random stuff
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Apparently some of my old teachers have coined the phrase “pulling a Daniel” to refer to anyone who turns in all their assignments from the semester during finals week. Unfortunately, this phrase is very accurate. I was lucky enough to not have finals after Tuesday, so I turned in most of my work on Monday of finals week (a pleasant surprise for my teachers).
I just got my SAT scores back, and they’re good, but not quite where I want them to be. Thankfully I have the opportunity to pay the College Board another $59 to score a multiple choice sheet and read an essay. I’m looking forward to my summer job, where I get to sift through old FORTRAN for hours, gathering data from LANL’s vast repositories of legacy code and rewriting it as C or C++. I actually am looking forward to it, but only because I’ll be able to afford a new computer afterwards.
I’m also working on a project with Ryan Marcus. It’s called ClanNet. Most of the information on the web site is programmer pipe dreams, but we’ve already got a server-client setup that can take most of the grunt work out of managing a tournament. We’re marketing this mainly to gamers, but it should work with pretty much any type of tournament. If you have any ideas or questions about the program, either post a comment here or use the contact link on the web site.