I haven't been posting very much lately. I blame apathy, or my current dull state of affairs, or some third thing. But in my defense, I haven't been up to much lately. I'd post on recent happenings that I find interesting, like congresses wise decision to shoot down dubyas (un?)constitutional ammendment that discriminates against homosexual couples, or Stephen Hawkings recent statement about information loss in black holes or the lack thereof, but chances are you probably already know these things, or aren't interested. With that disclamer out of the way, here's some shit you don't care about:
I got a 200GB hard drive, which is actually more like 184GB since the nice people at western digital have decided that 1000 = 1024. 1000MB is not 1GB, 1000KB is not 1MB, and 1000B is not 1KB. Powers of two, people, get with the program. Still, it's a huge amount of storage space, which will soon be filled with genetic algorithms and neural network diagrams, and 32GB of music.
I heard from Katie today, whom I haven't talked to since freshmen year in high school. It's nice to hear from people you thought had disapeared forever, unless they're jerks, then it's just anoying. I'm assuming she got my screenname from my blog profile, so blogspot proves to have uses other than providing an outlet for my oh so dull and poorly constructed sentences. That put me in an unusually good mood.
Freecell is an addictive game. I'm not one for computer games, but every now and then one comes along that grabs my attention, like that crappy Deimos Rising game that came with my mac, or SSX Tricky. Is it bad that I'm thinking about designing a genetic algorithym to play the game?
Clusterfuck is one step closer to completion. Only aleph-null steps to go. I now know how modules will work. Granted no code exists for this part yet, but with clusterfuck the going trend seems to be a few weeks of thought followed by 2 or 3 lines of amazingly powerfull code. This should really go in codemill but it can wait until the code is in place.
We've found people to live in our house. Leslie and her (I'm assuming) boyfriend are moving into my room, which is big, and I'm moving into Bens old room, which is small. I'm a little upset that I'm losing my room, but I had it for a year so I can't complain, plus we're gaining two housemates and people are good. I hope all my furniture fits in the smaller room.
That's it, people. Maybe I'll have some interesting stories by the end of the summer, maybe not. Depends on whether or not I care to write about things that happen when most of the people who would care were probably there anyway.
3 comments:
All your stuff will not fit in Ben's room. It's time for a massive cleansing of possesions because with your double bed, you're not going to have room for much else except a desk.
Does that mean that I only have 488.28MiB of memory? I've checked and with ram, and 1,024 bytes is one kilobite, and 1,024 kilobytes are one megabyte. Or did they just misadvertise and mean to say that the chips of which I have 2 actually had 268.435456MB, which would be 256MiB?
And do filesystems which use 4K blocks mismanage the other 96 bytes, or not take advantage of the whold cylinder/head/sector heirarchy that would make 4KiB blocks efficient?
this field we work in is retarded.
and what are you talking about? you love to break it to me.
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