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An eventful Wednesday - who’d have thought

Just after coming in from quite a long and eventful Wednesday - although, that’s something I thought I’d never have to say this semester….
Oooh, I still have some Pepsi left over from yesterday….. something else I never thought would happen…

Anyway, I don’t know how long this list will be, so I’ll start in list form, and if it can be expanded, I will.

• Woke up late for Logic exam (damn you Zero Hour Generals Challenge! - which ironically I only stopped when it crashed )
• Went to exam (9.25 ), and did it. Was out by 10.25. Not sure if I aced it, as my syntax might not have been great for propositional logic.
• Came back home, picked up computer and rest.
• Met Gav and Ian outside LG (computing building where LG01 is) - by then it was 11.05, so we ended up going into the lab rather than to Assembly Language.
• Got kicked out of LG01 by post-grads doing lab exam. Moved to LG25.
• Got e-mail with results of yesterday’s complete joke of a Haskell lab exam. Haven’t even opened the results file yet, but have been told that only 17 people got some marks
• Downloaded WinHugs! (the windows version of Hugs - the Haskell interface. Haskell is native to Linux, which is why this was needed!) - Probably won’t get much use out of it, though.
• Probability lecture……….was ignored.
• The “lab crew” went to Spar for stuff to attempt the Diet-Coke-Mentos rocket trick. Failed miserably as Softmints had to be substituted in, and Matt and Ian couldn’t get the cap on in time.
• Went to nuBar for some Scrabble with Oli, Moju and John. Missed Networks in the meantime. Lost after being stuck with Q, and giving away a great scoring opportunity when was down to last tile R (and the Q, but it was useless)
• Noticed there were some 360’s set up in Venue. Not run by E+S! (YAY!) Guitar Hero III featured. Would have stayed to try and nail some achievements, but the consoles were set to demo mode
• Up to Seminar Room for the ill-advertised Retro Gaming event. Took almost 45 minutes to get the retro consoles in. N64, Dreamcast, SNES, Gamecube (albeit on the Wii), and a few others were there
• Tried the N64 Goldeneye, which I’d read so much about as one of the best games of all time………I hate Legacy-style controls
• While searching for C&C sound effects, I found a Zero Hour mod that looks alright called Shockwave. Will install and try out later.
• Console Gaming carried on till about half 6 (Guitar Hero eventually arrived, as did Mario Strikers) - a lot later than normal!

And, now I’m back. And for those of you in suspense as to my Haskell lab exam mark? Well, here goes….

* opens Thunderbird *
* DCU Mail inbox *
* [Ca215] lab exam 1 - open *
* open link *
* search for me *

Yup, 0. 18 people scored some marks. 3 people scored 30, 6 scored 40, 1 scored 60, 4 scored 70, and 4 people got the full 100. Needless to say, there will still be pretty much a full class there (all those who scored less than 70, methinks) for the next lab exam next week, which is worth a maximum of 70.

And don’t bother wishing me luck, it won’t help in making the questions not contain material we haven’t covered.