05:03:18 Wednesday January 21 2004
As will be the norm on Tuesdays and Thursdays I had a great deal of class today. The lecture I designed for 490-dsp ran a little (<10mins) short today. I didn't get too much work-that-I-get-paid-for done today.

I did indulge my unhealthy obsession with foreign fonts for a bit today. Andrew has some silly script which connects iChat and iTunes on his Mac. It displays a unicode music note ♬ and then the title of the current song as a his status in iChat. Basically it allows him to impress his friends with his "super sophisticated" musical taste. Anyway his odd character was not displaying in gaim. So I broke out my unicode character map. This is always a mistake. Every time I see all of those empty slots I get the feeling that my life will never be complete until I can easily view any limbu characters that I should stumble upon. So needless to say between this unhealthy obsession and the power of apt-get I quickly found a font that can represent the silly music note and a couple hundred megs of other fonts.

Once I gathered my concentration I was able to catch up on the weeks worth of material I missed in cs 590D last week due to scheduling problems. I figured while I was in a paper reading/summary writing mood I should go ahead and finish the reading/writing for this week. This will be a good thing because it will allow me to use the entire evening tomorrow to concentrate on lecture planing for cs490-dsp.