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My father was on a business trip to Florida last December, and he lost one of his two Palm Treos. After spending some time wondering if he should get a replacement, and then vacillating about which phone to get, I guess he had finally made a decision. I called him Tuesday, February 5th to say Hi, and he told me that he just got a new iPhone. I started tripping out on him, telling him that I’d just read on techmeme that Steve Jobs updated it to 16GB today, and he should’ve waited and checked with me first.

All that I can say is that apparently my 51-year old father knew about the new iPhone before I did

Long story short: I took a lot of time off from the internet to chill out, let my eyes recover, and actually play some World of Warcraft. So I guess I was still staring at a monitor, but that’s beside the point. My cousins came down from Sacramento, and that was totally good times. My younger cousin is thinking about getting into computer science, so I burned him an Ubuntu disc and let him play around with it for a while. We’ll see how it turns out.

Basically, interterm seems like it’s going to be spent watching a ridiculous amount of movies with Calculus Girl, reading about Regular Expressions, finally getting down to packaging, and taking a  Gender and Communication class. This way I get my Human Diversity GE requirement out of the way, and I can still audit the math class. LaTeX is actually pretty awesome; I had no idea it was so powerful.

I also wanted to say that  this is a sweet Python review and is really helping me dust off my knowledge of the language.