A good day. We beat Purdue with a last second field goal to make the score 23-21 in favor of the Good Guys. We watched the game at the local BW-3's, and met some subway alums there. I guess I haven't really watched too many games away from South Bend (where most everyone is an ND fan), and I haven't really met/talked to too many subway alums. They're interesting folk -- no ties to ND, but are completely rabid about ND and its football program. The people that we met were really nice and we had a good time with them. I'm sure that we'll see those folks again, as well as other subway alums here in Louisville (the NBC affiliate down here broadcasts SEC games, not ND games, hence we have to go to sports bars to see the game).
There were some Purdue folks in the bar, too, and they were dumbfounded when the field goal actually went in (to be fair, we were too :-). By the numbers, we probably should have lost that game -- I don't know for a fact, but I'd be willing to bet that Purdue has us beat in just about every stat. Our guys played well, but we lost two key players (QB on offense, and ?DB&? on defense), so both squads were critically short. The new QB stepped up pretty well, but it was his first college game and he made a few mistakes. Still, he did pretty well and I certainly don't fault him for anything. At the end of the day, he delivered, and we won the game. He's got lots of time to improve, and I'm certainly pleased with what he did today. Good job, Greg. Looks like the students were pretty pleased at the end of the game; they were all over the field in and around the players. Rock on.
So we'll see what happens in the polls tomorrow. Purdue was 11 or 12 or something, and we were 21 or something, and I think we'll both be 2-1. We'll see.
We went to dinner with Janna (Jim+Anna) again, which was fun. New microbrew here in town. Not bad beer, but a little too sweet for me. Good conversation, and much fun was had. Janna has a satellite dish, and next week's game is on PPV, so we'll be heading over to their place to watch it. Hmm... actually, checking the network schedules, it looks like it's on ABC. That would make it a bit more convenient...
I finished my paper other day (I think that I mentioned this in as journal entry previously), and posted it to the vorbis-dev list yesterday, too, just for the heck of it. Finally got a response from someone today who said that it was good stuff. Good to hear, but they didn't have any ideas, suggestions, comments. Oh well.
Since my computer has been idle most of the day, I started running the distributed.net stuff. It appears that they're focusing on the OGR project. I don't really know what it is, but it appears that most of the keyspace has already been exhausted from the stats graph. It's really slow. Since I started the client last night around 11:30pm on my 800mhz machine, it's only done about 4.3 OGR packets. Wow.
I haven't been running bind for 72 hours yet, and they just released a new version. Apparenly bind 9.0.0 has been released. I'm a lazy bastard -- I'll wait for the Mandrake RPM. :-)