Cybersam's Blog - Thanksgiving Day

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. My turkey dinner earlier tonight was at Hanri, Denise, and Bruce's apartment (aka 217). It was good to see them as I have hung out with them since Fanny's going-away party more than 2 months ago. I have also met other guests at their apartment for the first time: Charlie (the new roommate), Alex (a Romanian PhD student at MIT EECS), Natasha, Katrina (Natasha's sister), and James (Katrina's husband). Food and the wine selection were good. For my part, I contributed a dish of stuffing done in a somewhat non-traditional way with seasame bread crumbs, chestnuts, shallots, saffron, chives, and mushrooms.

Right now, I am trying to finish up the last System Architecture opportunity set, which I dread. The class started on a high note but it has just been dragging on and on the past few weeks. Somehow I feel that the opportunity sets lately have been regurgitating the same topics over and over again.

I have been trying to get all my remaining assignments of the semester done by next week so that I can start writing my thesis proposal and hand it out to potential thesis advisors before school ends. Anyway, enough break... back to more writing for System Architecture.

11/24/2005 11:54:37 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) Comments [4] Personal

11/25/2005 9:28:03 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

OS5 has some new stuff. We have not been developing from Level 0 to Level 1 to Level 2 earlier. It is actually somewhat difficult to do, and it will be even more difficult in real life, if one is lucky enough to work as a systems architect.

Good luck.

Matti Kinnunen |maneAT NOSPAMiki dot fi

11/26/2005 2:12:39 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I am either not being productive or the scope of this assignment (or opportunity set) is way beyond the norm. I have spent the last day going thru' just level 0 decomposition.

Diagram drawing is a time-sucker... Moving on to level 1 decomposition.

Cybersam

11/26/2005 6:28:08 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Yes, it is way beyond the norm. Much more work. It helps to copy diagrams from Crawley and modify them.

I would start from slides 5,9,22,23,28,30,46,54,58. Just do similar diagrams for your system and you are all set.

Matti Kinnunen |maneAT NOSPAMiki dot fi

11/27/2005 5:05:08 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Thanks for the tip, Matti.

Cybersam