You know you're spending too much time in the maclab when...

Lack of food nor sleep fails to get you out, and only a fire alarm will get you to go home.

Yes this honors com sci class is taking up all of my time. =P

The only thing keeping me going

Kernighan and Pike:

"It is remarkably easy (speaking from experience) to create adjacent duplicate words accidentally when editting a big document, and it is obvious that that almost never happens intentionally. To prevent such problems, one of the

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the components of the Writer's Workbench family of programs....."

More quotes from Kernighan and Pike

if you're so organized that you keep your love letters on the sytem, perhaps hierarchically arranged in a directory, you probably don't want other people to be able to read them. You could therefore change the permissions on each letter to frustrate gossip (or only on some of the letters, to encourage it).

-- The Unix programming environment, Kernighan and Pike

gnu?

"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
-- The UNIX programmer's manual, 2nd edition, june, 1972

So it's the start of the school term, and i find my most exciting class to be this computing class which is apparently going to be based on Unix. One outdated $50 textbook later, it's still quite interesting. This despite being in classes which on paper are supposed to be good and intellectually stimulating: econs of info and econs of crime. Time to switch major?