Month: May 2004

It is 90° and 50% humidity in here. I am really looking forward to the New Dorm’s “individual climate control”. Who knows if we’ll actually be able to cool our room…

Emery and I had a wonderful evening. We watched The Italian Job on the big screen, and it was in 5.1. It’s a very good movie. My only complaint was the hacking. Do movie producers realize how cheap it would be to write a program that spews text as if someone was using a terminal…

Emery turned 21 today! We celebrated by making a trip to Monk’s Cafe in Center City with Fritz, Taki, Emily, and Matt. I’m sure you’ve heard me (or perhaps ) extol the virtues of said Belgian Beer Emporium. Tonight our waiter suggested that we mix Young’s Double Chocolate Stout with Lindeman’s Framboise, which was interesting.…

This week’s Enterprise episode literally forced me into a fetal position. You may recall how I mentioned that a few episodes ago, Archer decided to steal a warp coil from some random aliens, leaving them adrift in space. In this last episode, the writers sort of demonstrated their concept of irony when an alternate Enterprise…

Mmm… is there anything as delicious as an afternoon barbecue at the beginning of summer? I think not. Tonight we had our (usually) annual SCCS/CS system administrator’s picnic. Lisa and Tia stopped by briefly, and we tried to grab Rich, but his wife had a baby just seven days ago so he figured that he’d…

The word “wiener” is just a butchered pronunciation of “Wiener” as in “sausage from Wien”. If you’ve ever had Viennese sausage, you’ll note that it very closely resembles American hot dogs, only better. Also, “Austria” is just the latinization of “Österreich”, which just means “western kingdom”. Fascinating. Finally, thanks to , I’ve become a big…

Tonight, instead of doing a lot of work, I did a little bit of work (finished up my fourth lab report for E25), and returned to playing Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, which I haven’t touched in over 2 months. I’d missed several updates, but just this week they released the patch that allows wars between flags.…

Waiting for my Neural Nets to train… Who were you in a past life? by Kat007 Name: Birthdate: Favorite Color: Country: You were most probably: An unknown German artist If not then you were: A crazy guy on the S-Train Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen! Snagged from . I think my results were much better…

I am Jenius with a capital J. I just realized what was wrong with my neural network training method. This would be the problem that has caused my robot to be fractally stupid (that means its stupidity is fractal – it is stupid on any viewing scale) for the last 15 to 20 hours of…

If you didn’t already know, (Fritz), Prof. Maxwell, and I spent 4 days in Vienna, Austria this past week. This is the first entry about our trip. There’s nothing like a long day of international travel to really wear you out. I spent most of Tuesday morning packing, getting various code from the engineering CVS…