This not being the day relevant to the following musings, it is necessary to begin this entry with some manner of entreaty to excuse my belated comments on the day's events.

There is a plurality of educators and there are numerous pedagogical tools. In this particular discipline, they must be fitted such that, in their application, they have the wherewithal to elucidate the seemingly evanescent quality inherent in computing language. I often muse over how often instances of inspiration manifests when pondering what things are not instead of what things are. I believe that it is a sign of maturity to first consider what is lacking instead of what is present.
Today we continued to discuss the snakey language. We also discussed various administrative tools that enable us to better organize our efforts. It as if we are all a messy rabble- -held together by the crude glue of electronic bureaucracy. If only we could all be free, and express our selves in such a manner as to render to one another signs of goodwill and charity. Is it so much of a part of our condition that we must chain ourselves and coagulate as logical components of a larger system. In all of our efforts, surely there must be some vestigial artifacts demarking the last mute cries of stand-alone units .

The lecture pertained mainly to a new project called four primes. I have solved this problem before and would have preferred to discuss python. Python seems like a simple language to learn, but I'm still not totally comfortable with it. I also need to figure out how to setup a build of subversion on my own machine. This sounds like a worthwhile skill to learn and I would like to use it for future projects. It seems that our instructor made a mistake in his initial program-skeleton for our first project. The correction made a bit more sense to me.

26 January 2009

Commuting to and fro, via my sleek silver conveyance, is no more troublesome, in the general case, than clothing myself with a pair of denim trousers in the morn. Mettlesome morning dew, regardless of its splendid shimmering in the dim twilight hours, does make a mess of the many motor-vehicle meanderings.
Suffice it to say, as I'm sure many a good educator will innocuously mention, most truancies, and instances of tardiness cannot be countenanced by either charisma or clever fictions. Normally I reserve a three-quarters of an hour for my trek, but perhaps it is best to reserve a more conservative lapse of time. The taking of a quiz did not become me this day, but I pledge to rend asunder all future quizzes in a timely and complete fashion.
I think it's important to mention that no one laughed at my tardiness. Hopefully this trend will extend into the rest of the spring semester.

-David J. Garcia