From cd90fca0ef9ddc97e83d65d9e11c6397b1219e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederick Yin Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:10:39 -0500 Subject: umich/w25_journal: 2025-01-20 update --- docs/umich/w25_journal.md | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/umich/w25_journal.md b/docs/umich/w25_journal.md index a7d4e68..1ce56e2 100644 --- a/docs/umich/w25_journal.md +++ b/docs/umich/w25_journal.md @@ -18,22 +18,20 @@ as well. 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. -- cgit v1.2.3