{"id":1894,"date":"2010-12-23T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:15","slug":"thats-all-folks-or-becoming-randall-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/thats-all-folks-or-becoming-randall-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s all, folks! or Becoming Randall Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, I’ve let a month’s worth of dust gather on my blog.\u00a0 But I have a good reason for being so busy!<\/p>\n

Several good reasons, actually.<\/p>\n

And here they are:<\/p>\n

UCOSP has wrapped for the semester<\/h3>\n

This semester, I was a teaching assistant for the UCOSP (Undergraduate Capstone Open-source Projects) course<\/a>. \u00a0I helped out with two projects: \u00a0MarkUs<\/a> and Review Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This semester, we saw some outstanding work for both projects. \u00a0Lots of great students, lots of good code, lots of leaps forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to helping out next semester with UCOSP.<\/p>\n

I won’t be doing it as a paid teaching assistant though. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Well…<\/p>\n

I’ve finished school<\/h3>\n

My research paper<\/a> was signed off by my two readers, and I just wrote my last final exam a few nights ago.\u00a0 Unofficial grades have been posted, and I’ve passed what I needed to pass.<\/p>\n

So that’s that – I’m a Master of Computer Sciences, I guess.\u00a0 Awesome!<\/p>\n

I got a job!<\/h3>\n

I’ve been hired by Mozilla Messaging<\/a> to work on the Thunderbird project<\/a>!\u00a0 I’m 100% psyched about this opportunity, and look forward to peeling into the code.\u00a0 An added bonus:\u00a0 since Thunderbird is an open-source project, I’m absolutely free to discuss the code and the various things I’m doing with it.\u00a0 No NDAs for me!\u00a0 So stay tuned – I’ll have lots to say about Thunderbird and the Mozilla Framework code.\u00a0 Just give me some time to wade through it.<\/p>\n

Zihuatanejo<\/h3>\n

It’s been a pretty long road.\u00a0 I’ve been in school, in one form or another, for over two decades.\u00a0 It’s strange that it’s over.\u00a0 I’m extremely excited about my next adventures, but I think I’m going to miss school.<\/p>\n

Still, I can’t help but be a bit dramatic…<\/p>\n

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In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really, pressure, and time. …Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine, or maybe I just don’t want to. Five hundred yards… that’s the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile…<\/p>\n

Andy Dufresne – who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

P.S.:\u00a0 Here are some celebration rituals, if so inclined.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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