Oh be, dünya varmış

[robinturner]

That doesn't really translate into English as far as I can tell ("dünya varmış" is literally "it is said that there is a world" and "oh be" won't translate at all). It's the kind of thing you say while flopping into an armchair after a hard day's work and reaching for your beer and the remote control.

So anyway, Oh be, dünya varmış! I've put all my grades into the university computer, and put them on my on my website for good measure. Very few F's this time round, which is nice, though a lot of students got lower grades than hoped for because they didn't grasp the idea of a word limit (minimum, that is).

So not only is Grading Hell over, I have a week's holiday to recuperate. I celebrated by buying some second-hand RAM of a teacher who is leaving. Unfortunately most of it had got snapped up, so I only ended up with 128MB, bringing me to a grand total of 224MB (an odd total caused by one of my ancient 32MB chips dying on me). Not a vast amount of difference in speed, but at least it stops the thing slowing to a crawl when I have both mozilla and OpenOffice open, and it's quicker changing between desktops. Still, if you insist on running KDE on a 350MHz CPU, what can you expect?

I suppose I should take out the dud RAM chip, but finishing the semester has left me so lazy I can't be bothered to take the case off the computer again, and besides, it might start saying in a HAL-like voice "Robin ... you're hurting me."

Comments

[cibetky.livejournal.com]

Word limits have always hunted me in my nightmares. :-) I think there are people who can make their point in less space than what is required. And others, if they cut all the deadwood, would make it too.
So what's the point in word limits, anyway...