Jeff

So I started listening to this album like two days ago and have probably heard the entire thing a good 10 times and like it just as much, if not more than I did initially. It’s kick ass. If you look at my Last.FM profile you can see my long streak of listening to Muse. Its like a nice new modern day Oasis (even though Oasis isn’t really not modern day). Its always nice finding a new band and also coming across a solid start to finish album. One that really doesn’t have any weaknesses. They bring a lot of different stuff to their core sound. Stuff ranging from violins and pianos on top of the soaring vocals and solid rock core. I highly recommend anyone listen to it, its fantastic stuff. I will probably switch over to another of their albums soon when I start working on more programming. I may get started on Pac-man, I have the core done on Tetris, I will probably post a link to the compiled thing when I finish polishing off the core, Ryan is going to do the AI, so I hope it works fine…

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So I am finishing up this report. I am realizing how much I still have to do this semester and really not looking forward to all of it. Some of it is probably due to the three exams next week that I really don’t feel like taking. I also am a large step behind in my Object-Oriented Programming course. But I have a feeling I can fly through that when I get around to crunching it all out. Hopefully tomorrow will give me plenty of time to burn on that course. I also should get around to starting to jump ahead on the next step of the processor design. It would be nice not having to crunch it all out in the last week. I will probably post the code or the compiled result of the programming assignments for anyone who wants to play with them. I really just want to get it all finished up soon. Try and enjoy some of my senior year =.

I find myself bored a lot these days. I don’t have much that keeps me entertained and I just end up resorting to homework. Some of it is due to the fact that I have eliminated many of the distractions that would usually get in the way, such as playing computer games which I have ultimately ignored the majority of my time this semester, which is nice. I have become engross with Kongregate, a social browser game site. But I am running out of games to play and beat. I have reached a level 10 in like two weeks, which is a sad symbol of my loserness =.

Oh well, I should get back to compiling the results of the processors now, this makes me want to lay down and wake up in a week.

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So I just got back from lab. My pipelined processor source works for all the files they gave us. A pipelined processor is processor optimized to run at higher clock speeds (the GHz or MHz values given for the processor). It is pretty rewarding to know that I can make a processor, the thing that runs a computer. Its also a headache to look and figure out the code. But I don’t think I will meet many people in my life who can say that they have made a working processor. We have to do a report next week after break is over and then make the caches and then turn it into a multi core processor. I need to do the hardware testing tomorrow, seeing if the source code on the computer can turn into a real version I can hold in my hands…

Fall break is this weekend. I get to spend the Saturday and Sunday at a frisbee tournament and then the Monday and Tuesday just chilling in Indy. It’s a good break coming in good time. I have to spend time catching up on my coding for my Object Oriented course. I’m mostly done with the general code for the Breakout game in between the Java and C++, I just need to transplant the rest of the code between the two languages. That will come after this 437 is done. Its a nice senior year I have to say. Nothing is daunting, after the past three years it seems like all of us have already been there and done that, so this workload isn’t even shocking or stressful. Now I am going to sleep a bit before class tomorrow…

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