Month: October 2004

I finally saw The Rock tonight. It was a decent action movie, considering. I have some advice for our Commander-in-Chief: don’t use cheesy lines from a mid-’90s action movie in your State of the Union. There were some great ones in there about “a war on terror” and “if you’re not with us, you’re against…

As I mentioned, there was a lot of bar-hopping after the TBP convention in Orlando. I consumed the most alcohol I ever have in a single night, and yet I never felt drunk. I did experience some slight distance vision blurring, but that may have been more related to lack of sleep and the fact…

I got my Hennepin County absentee ballot today; seems like pretty fast turn around, considering that I only faxed in my application for a ballot last week. There are two important elections for me: the obvious one, and my U.S. Representative. Jim Ramstad (R) is up for reelection. I’ve met him, and he’s one of…

I missed my chance to register for the CS GRE subject test date in November, which means I can’t take it until December, which means the results probably will not be available in time for my Churchill Scholarship application. I can’t think 6 weeks in advance. A week lead time seems like a huge amount.…

I know I said I was going to post a lot yesterday, but I had a lot of e-mail, and I went to bed early because I was so tired from the convention. Speaking of which… This past Thursday through Saturday was the National Tau Beta Pi Convention. Swarthmore has a chapter of TBP, the…

There will be many, many posts over the course of today. I have a lot I need to catch up on, in particular, all of the Tau Beta Pi stuff that I did this past weekend. I’m back at Swat for a week long “break” of working on a bunch of code. There will be…

I’ve actually managed to squeeze in a little bit of free reading in the last two weeks, largely by sacrificing sleep. This is the curse of the engineer, I guess; on the other hand, Dan and I have written slightly over 12,000 lines of code in about a month, plus the additional code that I’ve…

So it turns out that digital logic and philosophical logic have slightly different implementations of DeMorgan’s rule, in terms of the strictness of shape conformity. In digital logic, the rule is !(ab) !a + !b This is a functional mapping, so it matches any pattern based on the main connective (AND or OR (+)), independent…