January 31, 2008, Author: Conor, 4 Comments

I’m studying

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I have but one exam left. It’s for my Operating Systems: Threading and Synchronization class, which I was extremely confident in, until I attended a review session for the exam and got my brain rocked. So now I’m hitting the books hard, in preparation for the exam sometime tomorrow.

Fortunately, pretty much all the nouns for this class are in English, given that they’re all computer science terms. This is excellent and facilitates gratuitous Wikipediaing in search of answers. Check out this sweet entry I just found.

“When two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone.”

—Illogical Statute passed by the Kansas (USA) State Legislature, early in the 20th century

It was in the entry explaining the concept of deadlocks. Isn’t Wikipedia grand?

4 Responses to I’m studying

  1. Anne says:

    So when people speak of the great empty spaces in Kansas they’re not talking about the prairies.

  2. will says:

    I’ll have you know when you linked that to me I first thought of the video game then the band and only when I clicked on it the actual concept. I’m glad I’ve got my priorities set.

  3. Conor says:

    I first thought of the band and then nothing else. Makes it really hard to study.

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