So, where to begin? I’m living in Berkeley for the summer in the apartment Ara and I will be sharing in the coming year. For now however, my apartment-mate for the summer is Mario. Mario just got his M.S. in Structural Engineering from Berkeley. He needed a place to chill while he looked for jobs and that?s how he ended up here. He’s a nice guy and it’s working out really well. So well in fact that we sometimes end up in really long conversations bashing, in no particular order, President Bush, the education system in the U.S., and of course the wonderful “two-party democratic” political system in the U.S. Suffice to say that we’re both itching to see Fahrenheit 9/11. If you don’t know what that is, please go check out the trailer.
Meanwhile, Berkeley is a huge bore. Nobody is here, plus I don’t have my car. And please don’t ask me if I’m meeting my In N Out consumption quotas because I’ll be too ashamed to answer. Of course, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a million things that I’d like to do, they just can’t involve too many people since, there are none remember?
I’ve started reading a book to learn Objective C. I looked around at reviews on a lot of books on developing for Mac OS X and between those and my sensibilities, I decided that it would be better for me to learn the programming language and the API’s for the OS separately. Otherwise it might be too many new things to digest simultaneously and I don’t want to confuse things in my head. If you know me you know that I love to have a solid and thorough understanding of anything before I can be comfortable with it. So anyway, the book I decided to read is “Programming in Objective-C”.
I just had the funniest thing happen to me. Know when you’re about to say something and then forget what you were going to say? Of course you do. Well what’s the digital equivalent of that? I wanted to send an e-mail; by the time I opened the new e-mail window I had completely forgotten the person I wanted to send something to and what it was about. I sat there chuckling for a couple minutes at this new digital version of a classic brain-fart, then I remembered what I was going to write and I got crackin’. Lots more to come soon, stay tuned.