Tim’s Blog

I have come to the conclusion that my more productive hours are between 11:30pm and 3:00am. Before that time, there are too many distractions; after that time, I get too tired and my concentration starts to degrade. I have been working on homework for Math 221, Matrix Theory, since about 10:45pm last night. I started to slip around 2am, but some caffeine helped me keep going. I am almost done, then it will be to bed for a couple hours of sleep. Luckily I will be able to catch up on sleep this weekend. Almost done…

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The error was caused by an unrecoverable hardware error which forced the operating system to stop functioning.

Although we know the problem is caused by a hardware component, unfortunately the error report does not contain enough information to tell us the specific component. More than likely the problem is being caused by problems with one or more of the following computer components:

• Random Access Memory (RAM)
• System board
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• Power supply

It may be time to start thinking about getting a new computer…

Today I signed a 1 year lease for a 3 bedroom apartment with 2 of my friends. After we pay the security deposit, we get to move in on May 1st. Of course I won’t be here this summer, I just accepted a job at Microvision back at home. I start work May 8th. Yay!

I forgot what my main password was a long time ago. I rely on muscle memory to log into my computers. Now I am starting to see the shortcomings of that technique. I accidentally slammed my left pinky finger into a door yesterday and I can’t type with it. That means that I can’t hit the left shift key, which is the one I use when typing. I tried to type in my password today and I could not. One would think that I could just use my ring finger to hit the shift key, but it didn’t work. Apparently doing as little as changing what fingers I type with is enough for me to be unable to type my password. Luckily there are ways around this problem. I imagine if I waited long enough, I could just walk up to my computer and type it in without any problem. But I don’t want to wait that long so I am cracking my password, in about 2 hours I will have it. Maybe I should write it down somewhere…

I am wondering what I am going to do this summer. I applied to the same NASA internship as last summer and didn’t get it. I applied for a trail maintenance worker job in Olympic National Park and haven’t heard back.

So I emailed my Dad and asked if Microvision was hiring interns for this summer. After a couple of emails back and forth, he told me:

“I am almost certain you will be offered a summer internship job here.
Let me know if someone doesn’t contact you by the middle of next week.”

On the other hand I applied to work at a bioinformatics lab on campus. They have viewed my resume 4 times (I check the server logs) and seem really interested:

“We are still in the process of soliciting and reviewing applications. Our current programmer/systems people have looked at your web site and have asked for more information on projects you have worked on and some code samples. We will need experience in java/C++, plus various scripting languages. We are eventually planning to interface various programs with mysql databases and web server interfaces. Could you send some relevant code examples?”

That job would require me to stay in Bozeman all summer. I don’t want to say no to the bioinformatics job until I am sure that I am going to get the Microvision one. I suppose I will send in some code examples and when (hopefully) I get the Microvison job, I will tell them I have another job.

I really want to go home this summer. I want to spend time with my sisters, eating good food and going on hikes with my Dad.