Pete's Log: Log Entry 254
Entry #254, (School)(posted when I was 21 years old.)
well, i survived the programming contest.
last night george and i went to the hawaiin club luah with anne. that was entertaining, the food was quite good (well, most of it, they have this purple pasty thing called "poi" that's kinda shady) and we got to watch girls dance on stage and call it culture. afterwards we went to lia's place for some party thing. at midnight george and i left for meijer to have george buy beer legally for the first time. i bought an 8pack or so of lighters. then we went to taco bell and discussed politics for a while over chili cheese burritos and wild chalupas. then we returned to the party thing. i had a little more alcohol than i should've and was up a bit later than i should've been, waking up for the contest wasn't too fun, since 6 hours of sleep doesn't entirely rid the body of that drunken feeling. but a bag of pretzels, a powerade, and two sprites had me ready for the contest. 7 teams showed up, a total of 13 people. not bad. we soon discovered that contestants were unable to run their programs, when they attempted to do so, the environment would crash. doh! luckily this was limited to c++ programs, and i fixed it within 40 minutes of the start of the contest. then the server crashed on a random segfault, but luckily jeff put a recovery mode into the server, so we were able to continue unharmed. also, our testing output for one problem was wrong, but that's ok. in the end it was fun, tho exhausting. george and tim brick ended up winning. they got 4 of 5 problems, and were minutes away from a solution to the 5th. every team solved at least two problems, so that's good.