For the past two weeks, my life has been consumed by CS441, the new bane of my existence. On the advice of my advisor, I signed up for this class with the intention of actually learning how to do proofs rather than blindly writing code and insisting that it works. The class, however, is an exercise in futility for me. You see, I have no actual ability to prove anything. If someone gives me a problem and says "is this true", I look at it for a minute and think "yes" or "no" and more often times than not I'm correct. However, if that same someone says "why?", I can go on and on about "well it just makes sense", and in my head it makes perfect sense, but when it comes time to mathematicize what's in my head and turn it into Sigmas and Lambdas and other mathematical symbols, I become like a 3 year old trying explain why E=MC squared. Dr. Sally Goldman is a remarkable professor, and everything she does in class makes perfect sense, but when the training wheels come off the bike and I have to go off on my own, I fall down repeatedly. I don't think my brain is hard-wired to work this way, it's set up to write code and play the guitar and overanalyze football games and figure out how to frustrate everyone while winning at the card game Spit. It is not meant to write proofs.

Some people, like most webloggers, have way too much time on their hands to do nerdy internet-related things. This guy is in a class all by himself. Make sure you click on the link that says "PumpUp" at the top and read his "movie scripts" (but only if you're over 18, sorry kiddos). The sad thing is that if you compare these to some recent releases, like Swimfan or xXx, they don't sound all that farfetched...