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Fantastic Rabbits

9:56am EAT Sunday 22 January 2006

This day Angelina rejoined us after a day being sick. She was scheduled to do her presentation today, but asked to move it to next class (明後日). Michelle gave a nice presentation on her homestay in Cairnes, and we practiced cheers and jeers for Language Olympics tomorrow.. I was surprised at some of the jeers they came up with. I told them they should not use those words unless they want to get into a fight.

But I still added them to their handouts, under the heading Angry.

Handed out diaries to all of them; I was supposed have done that earlier in the semester, but I had decided to save the notebooks unless they were specifically requested. And they were.

GU

10:01am EAT Sunday 22 January 2006

GU stands for Global University, a group of people on the voyage who, for me, are still some ethereal mystery that I don't really understand. But I will meet them today at 10:30 as we/they will be talking about the fundraising charity auction for tomorrow night. We're going to have to bust a nut to get it off on time, but I'm sure we (they) will be amazing.

11:15am

Kick ass! Some time ago, I wrote a bit of code in emacs that writes a list of numbers from 000 to 999 because I thought it might be a handy thing to have.

Today, we need to make raffle tickets.

Awww yeah.

Here is the code:

Command: last-kbd-macro
Key: none

Macro:

C-SPC			;; set-mark-command
0			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
1			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
2			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
3			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
4			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
5			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
6			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
7			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
8			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
9			;; self-insert-command
C-x r k			;; kill-rectangle
C-x C-x			;; exchange-point-and-mark
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
0			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
1			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
2			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
3			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
4			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
5			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
6			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
7			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
8			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
9			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
C-SPC			;; set-mark-command
ESC <			;; beginning-of-buffer
C-x r k			;; kill-rectangle
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
0			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
1			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
2			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
3			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
4			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
5			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
6			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
7			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
8			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-e			;; end-of-line
RET			;; newline
C-x r y			;; yank-rectangle
2*C-b			;; backward-char
C-x r t			;; string-rectangle
9			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline

Today

9:47pm EAT Sunday 22 January 2006

Busy busy day today, but getting tons of shit done... it took well longer than I thought to get the raffle tickets made; I couldn't write a macro in Microsoft Sucks Word Sucks because the security was set to High, and then because it would only hard code text and not let me cut-n-paste or do cursor movements in the macro. I ended up getting it done in NeoOffice/J, but even that was a bit of a pain cause, though I could do the macro I wanted, I couldn't just tell it to repeat 1000 times like I'd be able to do in emacs. But emacs won't output in .doc format.

Corrected student diaries until I met up with Rei in Yacht Club, and she helped me run the macro 1000 times in NeoOffice; she held down the fn key and I pressed F4 repeatedly until we got through it.

Petra thought of a better solution: replace " f" with " ^Mf" to put a carriage return in there. That woulda been a lot easier.

Given that we were conforming to the stupidity of computers instead of the computers being smart enough to just figure out what I wanted it to do, I asked Rei how she would know we had reached the future. I gave her my example: when I am able to ask my computer for a realtime video chat with anyone in the world (with appropriate exceptions for those who are sleeping / busy, but also with the ability to override those for people who've given me that permission) and just do it, with no "extra" equipment required except what I carry around with me all the time (retinal implant or video screen lenses), I will know I've reached the future.

She gave Doriamon as her gauge of the future. When we are able to walk through a どこでもドーア, or fly around with personal helicopters, that will be the future come true for her.

- - - -

Zoom to Chat With where I described my days old counting idea to two of my four students, then printed the raffle tickets for マミ, then off to a bit of chow in Yacht Club, then GET Meeting, then a All English session with some guy who knows a lot about South Africa - well more than I probably want to know, then dinner with Karen and Carl where we all laughed about Carl trying to talk to Vickie, I mean Maria, about her name, and then being a bit late to the planning meeting for tomorrow's South Africa fundraising auction, but then zooming out and getting pics taken and flyers flown, and good stuff like that, and now here.

Tonight

12:43am EAT Monday 23 January 2006

Have just come down to GET Street after being up at Namihei's third attempt at their Grand Opening after the first two were rained out. I (and many others) danced a lot.. over an hour; my feet feel a bit raw from the surface upon which I was dancing. It's no-slip platic mat stuff. Good for not slipping.

I've got a bruise on the inside of my wrist from jumping and swinging like a monkey from the roof support. (*)

(*) Several times.

Zzzz

2:54am EAT Monday 23 January 2006

Just finished getting to a stopping point on getting stuff ready for charity auction tomorrow. Joel is going to emcee it, though I had said I was willing to if he wasn't. I'm glad I won't be, but I think I woulda been up for the challenge.

But that's not why I'm writing.

Helped Carla get pics off her computer and tried to get them to the network, but for some reason I couldn't get them off my computer to a card. It kept erroring. I said, "I know enough to know that I don't know what's wrong, but it could take a really long time to figure it out," and we aborted to the bare minimum of what we needed to copy over. 3 pics instead of 352.

Good night.