Awkwardly weirdly awesome week? (Awaw)

Well basically this week has been almost a black-belt leveled hell!

To start off, Monday marked my 1st month anniversary at SD (whee~)

Tuesday classes and work... bleh

Wednesday work and cram for exam....

Thursday cram in all the slides for the exam on Friday.... Also there was π-Day competition (well π day was on Friday - 3/14/14 - which is getting close to 3/14/15 next year!). ACM and Tau Beta Pi decided to host a coding + analytical challenge contest with Qs related to π. 45-mins each for coding and analytical part, and the whole contest was only 45mins long. See how the math works, and you can be by yourself or in a team of 2. Even if you are in a team of 2, you can only work on one problem at a time. Aka, you must finish 1 of them in under 45mins to get the next challenge. The coding problem was sooooooooooo easy I was done with it in under 10mins and won a Raspberry Pi

And after completing the analytical part, I won a Raspberry Pie

So at the end of the day, I had a Raspberry Pi and Pie \(^_^)/ Me is happy \(^_^)/
Note: I was only able to participate since the competition didn't have anything against me or graduate students.... And I was hinted at, that next time there will be explicit rules baring me from it (~_~) honestly... how much damage can I cause? (*innocent face*)... well to be fair, I did walk saying, "Howdy people, I'm here to crush this competition" (*smirk*), but they all survived at the end... no casualties... so I don't see why I should be barred from participating...

Friday go through a 45 page, 4745 points, 61 question exam - took me about 5hrs before I said "Enough!" - It started at 8am and went on for about roughly 6hrs before everyone (11 people) was done. At least the professor provided us with food (donuts, chips, cookies) and half-way through with Hershey's milk chocolate with almonds bar as a sign of victory badge for surviving 3hrs. Honestly it was a bloody battle ~_~

Saturday work! After 10hrs of that, game night at the office! Catan, Tsuro and We Didn't Playtest This Either. My first time playing Catan, and of course people being people, ganged up on me (>_<)  And then towards the end they wanted my help to block someone else from winning (-_-") honestly.... Game night lasted till the wee hours. Nonetheless it was fun and gave me some insight into the psychology of my coworkers outside work.

And it is spring break which means an entire week off, no classes.... but... more work~ sigh....

Past 2 weeks summarized...

With work and classes for masters, I am back to my old schedule despite graduating... It's a shocker! I know... And yes, being a graduate student does give you a lot of time to do stuff like, oh I don't know, play games, socialize, have fun? Add work into that mix and the end result is same as last 4.5 years of my life. Anyhow, I've been saving some juicy stuff to put together in a blog post, turns out this one is going to have a video-plosion (you've been warned).

First of all Vikings is back!!!! With 2 episodes out it is already getting more amazing :D


So is Hannibal, right after Vikings:


Today I watched 300: Rise of an Empire:

It turned out to be more of like Spartacus v2.0, 3D version having blood, arrows, spears, swords and explosions coming at you. 300 vs 300: Rise of an Empire, overall both were good stories with some amount of goriness in each, none near matching those in Spartacus.

And of course the next Transformers movie, Transformers: Age of Extinction:

I don't know, after watching it, it looks more like the first Transformers movie combined with a bit of Real Steel elements.

And next movie I'm looking forward to is Transcendence:


And finally, Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) & Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica & Longmire) is back in a horror movie Oculus. Anyone interested?:

Also there was a moment around Sunday midnight, Monday morning, when TigerDirect, had a price error on their site, roughly $2 for 2-3TB NAS drives... Of course I ordered a ridiculous amount of drives all to be rejected by TigerDirect later during the week... sigh.... Earlier this week, I meet Ace, a police canine, and he was humongous... literally could take down anyone by his sheer mass. Also got Hadoop to finally work on a single-node cluster (guide coming up later on), now to attempt it on a cloud instance and make a multi-node cluster out of it.

Almost done with the Guild Hunter series, and now to pick with series to listen to next... suggestions anyone?

Courtesy: The Mary Sue (for making me aware of the Oculus trailer)

P.S.: My Bachelor's diploma finally came in, whee....