Drivers License
Since I've decided to get a car for the summer, and in order to keep the number of digits on the insurance premium to a minimum, I needed a Floridian drivers license. It only costs $20 when you've got a foreign one already. Well, I turned up at the place where they issue the licences and was told that I had to pass a computerbased test. It consisted of 2 x 20 questions, where you were allowed a maximum of 5 mistakes in each test. The first one was rather difficult, some of the questions were: "For how long is your license suspended when drunk driving?" - no idea! Another: "When you move to another address, how soon do you have to inform the issuer (10,20,30,40 days)?" - no idea, but it should probably be "fast", so I tried 10. It turned out to be correct, and I actually only made 3 mistakes in the test. It turned out, that you could get a folder, and having read it, you would know the answers to all the questions. Of course, I only learned about this afterwards. :-) The other test was about signs and that kind of stuff, and how difficult is that? 0 mistakes :) I just love multiple choice questions!

The "road test" was almost as difficult as the computer test. It turned out to be a trip on the parking lot. When I arrived for the test I was asked if I had been driving in the car before. I had, but mostly as a passenger, but I said no anyway. "Good luck! Driving a car for the first time taking a road test..." - he sounded pretty sarcastic, so I had to reply "Ohh, I do it all the time.." which is partly true, considering their computer baded test ;)

I passed without any remarks - of course :)

Cooking
I usually cook my own food. The other students are going to the cafeteria and having fastfood for breakfast - I just laugh, like they are laughing at mig cornflakes... Apart from that it is quite easy to impress people with your cooking - but it doesn't take much either. When they go "advanced" they grap something from the freezer and cook it in the microwave, or heats some pre-prepared what-ever (which tastes awful, but what could you expect?)

It is, on the other hand, quite cool that some of the fastfood restaurents are open 24-7. Last Sunday we were getting a "small" midnight snack at 3 am. We were, of course, not back home until 4 am - good thing that I don't have classes until 11 :)

Classes
We had the first test in "Computer Operating Systems" last week. It turned out that the questions were almost identical to the ones we did for homework, and of course the solutions to the homework is available at the library - you shouldn't come up with something creative! I did that for one of the questions with the result that I got zero points, even though I still think that my solution is at least as good as the "correct" one.

I also did a short 4 page paper for the "Computer Security" class, which was to be about a current security related problem. I decided to write about the attacks at Microsoft that happened in the end of January, mostly because I was litteraly flooded with information about this on the internet news sites. His comment during the next lecture was: "Well, some of the papers were just copied from the news sites on the internet, so I was a little nervous about what he thought about mine:

> Your paper is well written, discusses the problem clearly and in good
> detail. It has a good set of complete references. It only lacks
> describing explicitly the attacks in terms of the stages discussed in
> class. It was one of the best ones.

He also had the following comment:

> I went to a Danish restaurant a few days ago ("Out of Denmark" in
> Delray Beach). Quite good although rather expensive.

So I have to give that one a visit one day. I'm just a little nervous about the description 'rather expensive', I thing everything is rather expensive to begin with - the exchange rate is not helping, of course. But I'm curious to learn what the american's call Danish food, except from the cookie, of course...

Postscript: I never got to go that particular restaurant, but at Solvang I discovered that what Americans call a "typical" Danish breakfast isn't exactly typical in Denmark.