Thursday, June 27, 2013

Winning streak, study materials and a laptop thief

  • I wake up just before 6AM to read a message from my sister saying, "Haay. Lost also?! :(" and realized that Federer had lost in the second round at Wimbledon to Stakhovsky! I had listened to coverage of the match over Wimbledon radio until I had to hit the sack at 2AM and sensed that Federer was having a difficult time fighting the Ukrainian off. The loss brings to an end, the Swiss' amazing run of 36 consecutive quarterfinals at a grand slam tournament.
  • Settling down into the semester as a student: I install JFLAP in my computer here at work. Interesting little piece of software. And although I actually have the books themselves, I download the pdf versions of the textbooks for the courses I am taking, just for convenience.
  • Arrived at the COOP cafeteria to buy lunch and heard that a student there had just lost his laptop to a thief. Said student quite carelessly left his bag with the laptop inside on top of a table--which was near the cafeteria entrance, mind you!--and went off to join the queue to buy food. The bag  then, not surprisingly in this day and age, disappeared in the blink of an eye.

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