Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

Take a look at the following conversation I had after doing some CS 412 homework:

(20:30:53) Elliott:Can you take a look at my DFA?
(20:32:38) Kelly: sure
(20:32:49) Elliott: let me upload the png
(20:33:04) Elliott: It’s supposed to match /* .*? */
(20:33:21) Elliott: It’s easy…but I just wanna double check
(20:33:24) Elliott: I’ve never done it…
(20:33:47) Kelly: is that regex?
(20:34:01) Elliott: Yeah
(20:34:06) Elliott: It should match c-comments
(20:35:39) Kelly: very cute
(20:35:45) Kelly: 2,3 forms a unhappy face
(20:35:57) Elliott: Sure, but does it work
(20:36:03) Kelly: and 5, 4 forms a happy face
(20:36:09) Kelly: with a big cheek
(20:36:17) Elliott: -_-…..
(20:36:19) Kelly: 6, 5 forms a happy face with a nose
(20:36:22) Kelly: and a black eye
(20:36:27) Kelly: perhaps got beaten up?
(20:36:44) Elliott: Arrrrrrrrrghhhhhh!
(20:36:50) Elliott: I want you to double check my DFA!
(20:36:53) Elliott: Not get creative!
(20:36:53) Elliott: lol
(20:36:59) Kelly: sorry…..i can’t look at ur cute DFA without amusing myself
(20:37:18) Kelly: 2,3 got shot in the forehead..that’s y it’s not happy
(20:37:20) Kelly:
(20:37:21) Kelly: poor thing
(20:37:30) Elliott: It’s a discrete finite automaton…it’s not cute!
(20:37:38) Kelly: yeah it is
(20:37:49) Elliott: *explodes*
(20:37:50) Kelly: you should tell your groupmates my interpretation of your DFA
(20:37:55) Kelly: =D
(20:38:02) Elliott: You should tell me if it looks ok
(20:38:12) Kelly: letmme see
(20:39:18) Kelly: alright…
(20:39:21) Kelly: hmm…
(20:39:25) Kelly: sounds good
(20:39:29) Kelly: it opens and closes

The funny thing is that Kelly is a CS major, knows what Deterministic Finite Automata are, and can answer the question. But today, she’s apparently in an out-of-this world mood. The best word to describe her reaction to my question is whimsical. Or even quixotic! So cute…

Car RFID system hacked: it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/0233218&tid=172

Mary-Kate & Ashley finally take responsibility for themselves

Anil Dash points out anti-follow propoganda

I haven’t lived in Canada for 7.5 years now, so I don’t know much about our new Prime Minister (PM), Paul Martin. China Digital News, however, has an interesting article which documents an incident where he made no fuss when two of his journalists were refused entry into the country. CDN claims the journalists were denied entry because they would write articles “not flattering to the government in Beijing.” On such an occasion, they believe that Paul Martin should have stood up for the right to speech of his journalists and caused an international incident.

Now, I’m no expert, but causing a political relations disaster with a world superpower over two journalists, no matter how important, would be a bad move, impolite, shortsighted, and tactless. Since Paul Martin is Canadian, I assume he has excellent manners, and would not insult the Chinese over such a small matter. Rather, he’ll pick a good time to land a sharp-witted blow, where the issue matters more than several visas.