Month: February 2005

I’m such a follower. Obviously, this doesn’t actually require iTunes, and could be applied to any music library. How many total songs? 2952, or just under 8 days Sort by song title; first and last? From “…To Die For” by Hans Zimmer from The Lion King soundtrack to “Zombie” by The Cranberries. Ignoring non-letter-initial songs,…

I feel like there were some math jokes in this that I just didn’t get… Congratulations! You are the Fundamental Theorem of Finitely Generated Abelian Groups So what if the length of your title rivals that of the length of your statement. And so what if the average guy of the street thinks you have…

Apple announced that they will be splitting their stock and the end of the month. I knew something like this would happen. ::sigh::

I have started a LiveJournal for my character in Emery’s D&D campaign: . So far there is only the initial post, but I have three sessions worth of notes that need to be converted into narrative form. I won’t break character, but I’m also not going to reveal any thoughts/plans/opinions that the other characters don’t…

Courtesy of : Absurdly Cool Geekalizer certifies ultranurd as 60.03% computer geeky! How do you rank? I’m not quite as geeky as … Absurdly Cool Grade Analyzer thinks that ultranurd is in grade 11! What’s your grade? …but I guess I use bigger words than he does?

Remind me not to save my dream computers in my Apple Store shopping cart. While purchasing software for the SCCS, I very nearly accidentally bought myself a brand new 15″ PowerBook… And to think I’ve only had a credit card for a few hours… “Holiday Inn” from Madman Across The Water by Elton John

Last night I had another vivid and detailed programming dream, although this time with a particularly bizarre twist. The project was to develop an XML schema for describing an arbitrary game in terms of events, game states, player states, and operations on those states triggered by events. As you can see, I remember a fair…

Damn. Just when the series was finally getting good. http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/9469.html However, I will say that it is oddly appropriate that the series’ run aligns with my time at Swarthmore. The finale will even air during finals. When discussing the possibility of its cancellation after this season, Emery and I agreed that it was a weird…

I just sold all of my Apple stock. It wasn’t much, just a small amount that my mom had put into my investment account years ago, but the share value is roughly triple from when she bought it. Chances are the value will continue to go up, and I’ll regret selling for a while, in…