Journal singularity's Journal: Grades, and Panther
Grades for my students are due tomorrow at noon, and I just got done with mine (putting myself firmly in the faster half of all RCs, I believe).
Each quarter (that is four times a school year for those of you without a degree in math. Actually, come to think of it, that comment is probably better reserved for people that *do* have a degree in mathematics) I have to write several paragraphs about each of my twenty-four outstanding students.
This quarter's grades went even better than they usually do. It is sometimes a little difficult to write grades for students who are more on the quiet side, though. The quieter the student, the less I interact with them. The less I interact with them, the harder it is to write several paragraphs about their development.
But I am done with them. I did about two thirds of the work yesterday at an informational meeting in Evanston, IL put on by the NYU Department of Admissions. Being able to sit in the audience and accurately describe a student's aversion to doing housekeeping was well worth the price paid for the PowerBook.
I have already upgraded the PowerBook to Panther using the copy Apple kindly shipped to me via FedEx in exchange for $70 (.edu discount). It is a little different, but in general I am finding it well worth it. Expose is a wonderful feature, and almost worth the upgrade price alone. I am waiting to install Panther on the PowerMac until I (and developers) upgrade all of their software to make sure it will work with Panther.
Some problems I have noticed: iRC sends URLs with a space added at the end to Safari. Adium loses the screenname notification on the dock icon (The 2.0alpha release fixes this, but is late-alpha/early-beta quality software with an alpha feature set. It is stable for what it does, but not everything is there just yet). PithHelmet (ad blocking in Safari) is broken as well.
I was glad to see that Fink has finally gotten out a Panther-capable version. Tomorrow I shall install xCode on the PowerBook and get Fink installed on that finally.
Yesterday was an eventful day, with me spending about 6.5 hours in cars, all within the Chicago-land area. Traffic was crazy yesterday, and I went into the city twice, and into another 'burb once. Going into the city again tonight, as well.
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