Well I survived my cs441 exam. Whether or not I did well on it is another story, but I survived 2 and a half straight hours of proofs.

Amy Sia sent along this haiku to describe her cs455 class and its substitute professor:

Damn you, Kimura.
Teach 455 at least.
Dataflow is so dumb.

Unfortunately, Amy failed to realize that "dataflow is so dumb" has 6 syllables, rendering this verse a malformed nonhaiku. Better luck next time, Amy.

This haiku contest, to quote Cardinals broadcaster Mike Shannon, "began as a tiny worm and is blossoming into a large cobra."

Yesterday Ben posted an amusing piece of ASCII art to his webpage. However, ASCII art is no laughing matter. There are 3 things that the internet has given to mainstream society that have weakened the infrastructure of our culture and those things are FanFiction, pop-up ads, and ASCII art (one could also argue in favor of "1337-H4x0r-speak"). And the most disturbing thing about this is that a large library of ASCII art can be found at Chris.com, a site named after me! (well, not actually after me, but it uses my name dammit!) This gallery includes, but is not limited to, ASCII art porn! On a site named after me! Oh, the horror!