Month: September 2004

First of all, sorry for the general lack of updates. I’ve pretty much be coding all the time lately. It’s fun, but it feels like I haven’t slept in two weeks. At any rate, a short story: I was trying to find out how to do some sort of redirection with stdin so I could…

So it turns out that fink has been keeping nearly a gigabyte of obsolete .deb packages in its cache. I was performing a much-needed fink –update-all today, and I got the disk full message. Sweet. On another computer related note, the tab key on Chronos’ keyboard finally broke off completely. One of the little clips…

I swear, it was Emery’s idea. I think we’d melt the cheese, put it into a shot glass, and drink it before it cools completely. Thoughts? Are we insane? Suggestions? Perhaps a touch of chili powder? “Barely Legal” from Is This It? by The Strokes

…imagine what I could do with sleep! Over the last two days, I have stayed up until 5 am and 3:30 am, respectively, working on my fog generator. Admittedly, I wasted a lot of time by insisting on trying to code a generic form for generating an n-dimensional multi-spectral interpolated Perlin Noise hypersurface. As it…

Someone on my hall was hospitalized early this morning for severe alcohol poisoning, but according to my hallmates who were not oblivious (and are currently cleaning the bathroom as best they can with soap and paper towels), the guy is going to be okay. It seems that my hand towel was grabbed at some point…

It may not look like much, but this is a key component of a multi-dimensional multi-spectral stochastic fog generator!

Tonight was the inaugural Ladies’ Night of the semester, held on Wharton CD 3rd. While migrating between the rooms of Geoff, Raghu, and Shiva, I had an excellent evening, perpetuated by three mixed drinks and a shot. I am sure that I have reached the absolute limit I would ever want to reach, so I…

You know what’s weird? Looking for papers relevant to a paper you’re writing, and then realizing that you’ve met the author(s) of a paper you’ve found. I feel like I shouldn’t know these people, or something. Maybe I’m just crazy. “You Are Not Alone (Classic Club Mix)” from Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In…

While I was home for the end of summer, I purchased a french press and a burr coffee grinder. I have now attempted to make coffee twice, and both times it has come out very, very strong. As my mom says, “If you can’t walk on it, it’s not black enough”. The first time around,…