May 2009
44 posts
Out for a trip. Be back later. Going lo-fi with a noisy point and shoot.
Dreams of another time
Windows is about waiting an hour for it to install, then spending the next 3 hours updating drivers, security patches, and (gasp) the infamous SERVICE PACKS. That’s not counting time that needs to be spent installing all the software that makes it go to palatable then actually usable as a computer. 6 hours, I think, would be quite reasonable to get all the necessary apps up, if you’ve...
oh God no they’re at it again
at each others throats.
and just like any other day
it’s all my fault.
being the inconsiderate
ass i’m supposed to be.
its just not worth the trouble
for something thirteen inches. (don’t you think?)
now all the buzz building up
wow, new phone, end of term.
pop goes the weasel
poof goes the dreams.
bliss
not.
and now my weekend is...
Tumblr TOS Chilling Effect - James Duncan Davidson →
When I decided to take up a freelance project, I didn’t factor in the pain, agony, and sleep deprivation that forms (part of) the opportunity cost of working instead of doing schoolwork. Just the value of my time. In retrospect that was epicly stupid.
I think my rate just went up by 50%. Oops. Further surcharges for new clients who haven’t demonstrated their ability to pay promptly!
“A telephone pole stands along an inclined highway and casts a 52 foot shadow...”
– The Deck Ad Network Readership Survey
of tennis and mario
Random ACS Guy: oh!
RAG: this is like mario
RAG: he has 3 lives
Bystander: come on, mushroom!
Bystander 2: oh noes, he's jumped onto spikes, he's gonna die!!1!
RAG: omg.
vegetables are for vegetarians
Simko: Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.
Rodriguez: I hope that was the tip of the "iceberg" for more puns today.
I’m very tired, and these few days have been really really terrible.. productivity is at new lows! I’m not even busy slacking, I’m busy trying to get something, anything done. And failing at that too.
With Econs commentary, Math port, English Mock IOP, ToK reflection, misc Chinese and Math homework, and 3 Chem lab reports that need to be submitted in the next 7 days, it’s...
Outdoing Infinity
dailymeh:
Is it possible to outdo this? Can you beat infinity? Can your score be higher than toldorknown’s? Yes, it can.
One of the most beautiful pieces of logic (that can be understood by most people) I know of is Cantor’s Diagonal Proof of the uncountability of the real numbers. My first paragraph here was a shameless attempt to get you to read on long enough for me to explain, without...
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams
Menagerie
How often do you hear something like this?
I had a really bad week, I really need to work on my time management.
It all boils down to Poor Time Management™.
Procrastination isn’t quite the same, rather, a variant. That one’s nearer deliberately choosing not to do something. Or is it really that different?
I think all those invocations of ‘poor time management’...
“How then should you fill your time? The answer is simple: living the best...”
– Study Hacks » An Open Letter to Students Waiting for Their College Admissions Decisions
I just updated my Apple International comparison spreadsheet (manually, I should automate this soon) – it compares prices for 7 Macs, across the 20 online Apple stores, against the Singapore online store.
Well? At current exchange rates from Google, it’s cheapest to buy Macbooks and Macbook Pros from Canada, while it’s cheaper to buy a Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro from the US store.
...
“Ultimately, you would expect that there would be riots across America. But the...”
– Manna, by Marshall Brain
Sound familiar? Don’t read this anywhen near bedtime, though.
“PHP is not a language that was designed to be a language. It was originally a...”
– Hacker News | Ask HN: Why no love for PHP?
My MS (wireless) mouse has died, and I don’t have any spares. Booo.
“If the taint covers enough people, it ceases to be a taint, but a norm. No...”
– Findings: Everything in Moderation, Everything in Flux
Observation of the day: most people who say “don’t complain” are very human and hypocrites.
Representing complex numbers as 2×2 matrices «... →
Adam Wiggins - Close to the Problem:
Your boss can probably make a better guess at your shirt size than can the mayor of your city. Your mom can probably make a better guess than that. But the person best equipped to answer the question is you.
Despite this, people have a natural urge to push decisions up the hierarchy. I suspect this is a desire to abdicate responsibility: they can say “this...
“The virus that has caused these infections is viruses are actually very...”
– Dr Nancy Cox, Director/Influenza Division - CDC Press Briefing Transcripts April 23, 2009
simko:
90 people get the swine flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom. (via)
What about the rabbits?
Btrfs!
Slashdot Comments | Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs:
You’re still running ext4? I can’t believe it’s not ButterFS!
But will it run on toast?
Will fsck be renamed to butterknife?
If your system overheats will your filesystem melt?
If you use ButterFS too much, will it turn into FAT?
If you leave ButterFS on your volume too long, will your hard drive start to reek?
...
“MySQL runs the web, right? So do we really need the Oracle/SQL Server support...”
– Are Commercial Databases Worth It? - Coding the Wheel
“Alternative health practitioners of homeopathy, herbal remedies and nutritional...”
– Swine flu Q & A: Is a pandemic inevitable or is threat being hyped? - The Independent