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9:29:17 PM   []

The most expensive forms of leisure (sitting on a yacht) often provide less flow experience than gardening, socializing, or craft work.

Number nine on the list is 'Be grateful':

People who keep a gratitude journal - who pause each day to reflect on some positive aspect of their lives experience heightened well-being.

8:21:07 PM   []

For instance, our undergraduate computing environment is awful. I have alluded to our 'slit your wrists' labs, overcrowding and lack of wireless support in the past. But my latest beef is that there is not enough computer science undergrad computing power. Having had to work in the lab the last few days on a project, while at the same time everyone in third year is trying to finish their operating systems, has been painful because there simply is not enough cpu time to go around.

I know many of you disagree with two-tier health/education/... but last night had it been possible to purchase access to more CPU time, I would have had my credit card out in a second.

Of course the real solution is to buy more boxes, or, allocate courses to certain subsets of machines. For instance, in our environment there should be at least one machine that is free of CS354 processes and CS354 builds.

I am also still left wondering why we use terminals instead of putting a whack of processing power on every desk.
9:50:07 AM   []

Waterloo slipped from first to second in the "best overall" ranking of universities from coast to coast, pulling in just behind the University of Toronto. UW had taken pride in being "best overall" in the Maclean's rankings for 11 years straight.

Waterloo placed first in seven of the 23 measuring categories used to arrive at the overall standings. The individual measures where Waterloo placed #1 include average entering grade; student retention; student awards; classes taught by tenured faculty; alumni support; and reputational survey.

It's great to see that Waterloo is again one of the top schools. With the whole job finding situation I've found that there is a lot of respect for Waterloo from American companies; Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Sun all recruit and hire from here. In their minds we are on par with the big American schools.
9:30:54 AM   []

• Waterloo places 2nd in 'comprehensive'. (Stupid Guelph beat us again.) (Glad to see that Macleans knows we do not have a medical or law school.)

Did we place 1st in reputational? (I don't have the paper copy..)
12:22:20 AM   []

• News
  • Symposium: too risky for student fees. Excellent community editorial by Jesse. Of course the good news is that student council decided on Tim Hortons.
• Opinion
  • How to survive a Jamaican hotbox. I'm surprised this ran, but hey, some frosh might need to learn how to do this.
  • Let us all be whorish housewives. I'm surprised there isn't the usual barrage of comments.

'The letters used to be good and now they are so boring' - Housemate

If I missed anything, let me know.
12:16:40 AM   []