Guy Fawkes!!

I always thought Guy Fawkes was a funny idea: we celebrate the fact that someone tried to blow up the government house by playing fireworks. But then who cares, as long as you have pretty fireworks to play with, right? Ah... see I bet your father didn't explain to you that playing with fireworks is like burning money. Mine did. Well, sort of. Maybe he hasn't but that would be the kind of thing he'd tell me. I still think I grow up to be the stingy bitter person I am today because of him. Mostly because of him. The rest I'll blame it on the fact that PhD funding isn't all that much.

Anyway, spent the past two days playing with data. It's quite amazing when you finally get to play with so much data that it actually use up ALL of the computer's memory. I feel like a grown up. You don't ever have the feeling that you're doing REAL work and not just dummy play problems until you get to the point where it eats up all the computer's memory. It's almost beautiful. Although I don't think my computer is too happy at the moment.

Anyway, Back to playing with data (aka research). I don't know about tonight yet: was gonna go to Guy Fawkes with Pete's family tonight but apparently that's cancelled. Damn. And I went and bought a box of fireworks including one where fireworks shoots out of a chicken's ass. (I thought his little brother might like it...) Oh well, I think some friends are going on Saturday anyway and I might just have to save my chicken ass firework until then.