The Matt Faus Blog

Caffiene has given me supernatural powers of awakeness that are slowly turning into a curse, and here I am.

Astronauts are currently orbiting the Earth installing some major upgrades to the International Space Station. The name of the shuttle that took them up there was called Atlantis - I thought this was a nifty name for a space shuttle. The human race has accomplish so much in the past few generations, it will be amazing to see what we come up with next. 10 years ago the Internet was just spreading it’s wings, now we’re downloading videos and creating entire subcultures through it. What will we be doing in 2016?

Classes are going pretty good. I’ve got a nice mix of textbook and actual programming classes to make it interesting. Probability and Computer Architecture allow me to stretch my Math Muscles while Software Architecture gets me into coding some more Java. My Music class has been pretty interesting, I never knew music was some complex and beautiful. I have been able to draw a lot of parallels between writing software and writing music. The key difference is that software solves problems, while music simply exists to be enjoyed.

I’m sure I’m rambling - I’ll post about my laptop’s new operating system (Ubuntu Linux) in a few days (hopefully).