Heh, so this quarter is killing me… in every aspect except for my grades (yay for trying and getting A’s for once).

Yesterday I started my second project for SysProg and it’s pretty much text manipulation in assembly.  Fun?  Hell yes… if you’re a masochist.  Basically I sat down for 5 hours straight in the DSL lab and cranked out 300 lines of x86 assembly.  That includes the learning curve of a new language and figuring out how to make system calls properly and getting file I/O to work and determining how I am storing my data and such.

I don’t really like the keyboards in the lab, or the way the computers are configured (old version of vim, zsh, and such) and this is a project that you’re more or less forced to work on in the lab.  It’s not all that bad, at least there are speakers for listening to tunes.
Yeah, I am only 1/3 done with this project.  It’s so worth it though.  I understand C and the x86 so much more now.   Also, GDB rocks my socks.

So, I was visiting my friend in NYC over break and I decided to bring my 4×5.  So I thought I had shot 8 sheets of color print film.  Then when I emptied out the holders I counted 7.  When I got my negs back from the lab they told me that I only had 6.

I had some interesting results too.  One sheet of film was exposed twice.  It looks pretty cool, but the white balance in the two scenes is completely different, but that might be a good thing?  Also, one of the sheets I had processed was some Velvia 100 that I guess I had in one of the holders.  It got cross-processed.  The exposure seems pretty good, but I have a feeling it will take a very long time trying to get the white balance correct.  It’s somewhat of an abstract scene with no people, so it’s not a huge deal whether or not I get it perfect.  If not, I will just scan it when I get time.  I’m curious.  I never cross-processed before.
I also need to make sure I tighten my movements on my 4×5.  The rear tilt always seems to end up moving when I use my 90mm lens and I realize it after the fact.  It adds an interesting aesthetic by making the bottom of the exposure a little softer, but it’s not like I am going for it.

Well, skank was acting a bit funny Friday evening so I restarted it.  It didn’t start back up.  Also, I was on vacation and nobody was in the dorms and had physical access to the server room.  So that’s why there was some downtime.  Fortunately it started up right away when I finally got around to resetting it manually today.  All is well

I am updating gallery right now.  It’s probably been 3 or 6 months since I’ve updated it last.  I just hope it doesn’t break because I run SVN versions of it.