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Unfortunately, all the courses I'm taking are EECS.
-Those I plan to take:
+Those I enrolled in initially:
- [EECS 461: Embedded Control Systems](w25_461_journal.md)
- EECS 330: Antennas and Wireless
- EECS 201: Enrolled because I needed exactly one credit
-
-Those I plan to drop:
-
- EECS 491: Distributed Systems. Not sure to drop or not.
-- EECS 493: UI Development. 80% sure I'm gonna drop.
+- EECS 493: UI Development. Dropped because (1) I'm not doing web dev for
+ a living and (2) it involves "AI prototyping".
## Get In Loser, We're Spamming North Campus With Furry Club Posters
(and a select few Central locations as well)
-On 2025-01-07, Rix and I spammed the following places with ~100 furry club
+On 2025-01-05, Rix and I spammed the following places with ~100 furry club
posters:
- BBB 1F-4F
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ posters:
- Duderstadt 1F
- Chrysler 2F
- Art & Architecture 1F
-- Stamps (Walgreen Drama Center) 1F
+- Walgreen Drama Center 1F
- Bus stations @ Pierpont (N553, N551)
- A cylinder outside Weiser
- CCTC (C250, C251)
@@ -70,3 +68,82 @@ suchen dich", which sounds funny to English speakers. The Dutch was
courtesy of Dante and [Purple](https://woof.tech/@Purple).
Rix did Korean, and we've got contributions in Japanese and French.
+
+## Live Caption Badge 2: Electric Boogaloo
+
+On 2025-01-07, I attended the first 370 staff meeting of the semester with
+the [live caption badge](./f24_473.md) under my jacket. Present on the
+meeting are Mark Brehob (473 professor) and Abhi (473 GSI). Unbeknownst to
+them, I had repurposed the LCB to something way cooler: a badge you can
+control with your phone over BLE. You can also show slides, and that's
+what I did. I made a presentation on my achievements this winter. They
+were impressed.
+
+## Turkey ambush incident and Wing Snob night
+
+On 2025-01-10, I was surrounded by a pack of turkeys when exiting CSRB.
+Fortunately, I have my bicycle. The certainty of steel sent a chill of
+intimidation down their bird spines, and they dared not attack. Or they
+just didn't wanna, idk. Point is I made it away without casualty.
+
+In the evening I went to the UMix event at Mich Union with my furry
+friends Fox and CJ, and we got ourselves some free chicken wings and
+fries. We fucked around the Union, going places I never heard of.
+
+Later, Fox took me to his office in East Hall. His research area is
+psychology of sex. We hung around in the building, playing Foosball and
+table tennis until like 11:30, then we walked around, joking about the
+ridiculously posh Ross buildings, had an intermittent snow ball fight, and
+I hitched a ride home. It was the first time I "partied" past 00:00. Yes
+I do consider this a party.
+
+## I Recorded These Songs 11 Days Before My Next Therapy
+
+[Listen on
+Faircamp](https://fkfd.me/jam/i-recorded-these-songs-11-days-before-my-next-therapy/)
+
+Tracklist: "The Daily Mail" and "Idioteque", both Radiohead covers.
+
+> Alex hit me up, "hey you wanna come record songs again?" I said sure and
+> booked 3 hours, and he booked 2.5 more. Given the amount of time, we're
+> chill and under no pressure.
+
+Both songs were politically charged, partly in response to John
+Moolenaar's letter to Santa Ono convincing him to end UM's partnership
+with SJTU, and Ono pulling the plug. I will now omit the reasons why this
+is stupid.
+
+Anyway, the news did not go easy on me. It was the first time in the US
+that I felt genuinely threatened. It took me more than a year to finally
+find a sense of belonging, as far as declaring Ann Arbor my "Heimat 2",
+and some dipshit goes "no you don't" and forklifts it away.
+
+## How many fucking credits do I even need
+
+Had a panic attack calculating the number of credits I need to graduate
+SJTU… If this was low enough I could apply for reduced course load in my
+last semester at UM and pay less tuition. But it's a bit on the nose right
+now. Juggling emails between JI and UM is not easy.
+
+Maybe I'll just not drop 491? It's gotta be the most expensive course I'm
+about to take, but Brian Noble is one of my favorite professors… At the
+same time, the workload… I've never wanted to clone myself so much.
+
+## Get In Loser, We're Spamming Central Campus With Furry Club Posters
+
+Fox and I headed to the northwest area of Central Campus on 2025-01-16 and
+vandalized the following buildings:
+
+- MLB
+- North Quad
+- Thayer
+- League
+
+## LCB. Agent of Chaos.
+
+On 2025-01-19, I brought the LCB to the furry meeting. In the first hour,
+I managed to implement the animation feature. It worked on the first try,
+which never happens. Anyway, in the second hour, I demonstrated the
+image-over-BLE feature, which resulted in various chaotic images. Two of
+such images were shared with Rix, who responded with "What the fuck".
+I consider this an approval.