Month: July 2004

You may recall me mentioning the new serial camera interface library I wrote for the Swarthmore Vision Module (SVM). I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting it to work. The unusual part was that I had had it functional at one point, and on top of that, my test program that runs on the…

I finally saw Highlander (the movie) last night. It’s pretty bad, and so very, very 80s… Of course, it redeems itself entirely on the merits of having a Queen soundtrack. I don’t understand how it relates to the TV series, of which I have seen several episodes, but I guess I shouldn’t really care ;o).…

Do you ever find yourself in the state where you feel like your brain is more functional than usual? I felt like that yesterday. I was working on completely rewriting the serial interface for our cameras, and I just felt really energized and into it. I wrote over 1200 lines of code yesterday, and learned…

A small sample conversation I just had with one of our robot’s cameras: FF 30 30 00 90 30 EF FF 30 30 00 B5 30 EF FF 30 30 00 76 31 EF FF 30 30 00 58 30 EF FF 30 30 00 64 31 37 45 46 35 38 33 32 30…

The best thing about making a list of things to do is crossing out the items on that list. I got a bunch of random stuff done today, but the majority of my list of things I need to do in the next week is now done. Today I… Added a zoom visualizer to the…

I suppose “tipsy” would be more appropriate. I’m about to go to bed, but I thought I’d mention that the latest batch of Ye Olde Yale Haus Brau is now ready. Sean went for a Belgian whit this time, and it is very good: a spicy summer beer that doesn’t really taste like beer. I…

So today, Fritz and I started off by putting a big list of everything we need to do up on the chalkboard in the mural room. There’s a lot of stuff to do in the next week, but a lot of it is just bug fixes or minor feature enhancements. As it is right now,…

Today is one of those “do my laundry and dishes that have been accumulating for a month” days. Whee. I was going to go into work today, but I’ll probably just do some work remotely. I don’t want to walk up to campus in the rain, only to be all alone. With the robots.

1:37 pm is the time of day most appropriate for H4}{x0rZ: 1337 hours. Yeah, I said it. Deal with it.

Nick’s 12-Step Guide to Fixing Mysterious Memory Errors Write some code and run it. Fail. Add a bunch of debug statements and rerun the code. Fail. Use GDB to find segmentation faults, bus errors, and bad access errors. Fail. Try to determine why GDB is setting breakpoints in functions that don’t exist. Fail. Curse GDB…