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| 12:47pm 17/04/2004 |
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You are a water-rinsible solvent that contains no petroleum distillates. Your low VOCs (4.89%, 43 g/L) has been tested by EPA Method Number 24. You have ultra-low evaporative properties—0.005 @ 76° Fahrenheit relative to n-butyl acetate (NBAC) = 1—and are an FDA approved surfactant. | Find out what kind of industrial solvent you are |
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| 03:44am 23/11/2003 |
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You might, perhaps, say I'm in a 3S1/2 state; spinning, but low energy and not that excited. |
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| The Mad Prophet of Unix |
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| 09:29pm 13/11/2003 |
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mood:  tired
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aka Dennis Ritchie |
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| Ethnic... pride? |
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| 01:21pm 28/09/2003 |
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mood:  drained music: Front 242 - Blend The Strengths
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So Lambda Alpha Theta is running a "Latino Incognito" poster campaign. Their first two famous-people-you-wouldn't-think-are-Latinos? David Blaine and Catherine Bach. Woo. Pride.
In an unrelated orgo question, "In 1934, Edward A. Doisy of Washington University extracted 3000 lb of hog ovaries to isolate a few milligrams of pure estradiol..." I'm not sure how this missed the Worst Jobs in Science.
Oh, and, I've gotten the Ultra-Liberal Feed Parser to work on feeds that use the Content module, and now I'm hacking it to output an easy RSS2 feed so AmphetaDesk can use it and handle all my feeds. |
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| Moz and such |
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| 07:45am 20/01/2003 |
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mood:  confused music: Brahms - German Requiem
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Posting this with Mozilla 1.2.1 (on Mac OS 9, no less) and... God damn, they've finally figured out how to make a browser. Very cool.
And yeah, this job. Running and revamping a currently rather mediocre website, working with and trying to get content from folks who think (with no small amount of accuracy) that I'm a loser with no power to speak of. And oh yeah, getting my grades back up to at least a 3.4 or so. Bleah. |
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| We lost this one, folks. |
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| 04:19pm 19/12/2002 |
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mood:  pessimistic music: Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken...
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So why is everybody so happy about the latest verdict? Adobe got what they wanted and got to spend quite a bit of our money on it, Elcomsoft enriched the US legal industry and squeaked by on the grounds that they didn't know about the law (obviously not a defense they can use twice), and... the DMCA is still law, and this isn't going to help fair use in the US at all. |
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| Star Trek humor |
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| 09:30pm 29/11/2002 |
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"But suppose they went nowhere!"
"Then this'll be your big chance to get away from it all." |
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| 07:35pm 29/11/2002 |
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Ok, so we've been living here for 3 months or so, with a kitchen trashcan, and I just bought the first trash bags. Yuck. |
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| 03:12am 23/11/2002 |
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mood:  weird music: R.E.M. - How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
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Among my friends, I count a fervent atheist surnamed "de los Santos" and a devout Catholic with the last name of "Seckular". Just thought that was kinda funny. |
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| 10:37am 14/11/2002 |
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mood:  thoughtful music: Bush - Altered States
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Hm, so Craig Venter (founder of Celera) will be speaking in Towne a week from today. Too bad I don't have the contacts to organize a small anti-genome-patent protest. |
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| 01:54am 30/10/2002 |
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mood:  blank music: Tom Petty - Refugee
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Libraries...Wandering through the stacks, I almost feel the same as when I approach the altar; it's the same sense of the imminent presence of something greater than myself, and not merely more powerful. More than just power...
So I was in Spanish class a week or so ago, and somebody was giving a report on the economy of a Centroamerican contry (I think Nicaragua). She mentioned its principle exports, one of which was bauxite, and Charles asked what bauxite was. And everybody just kinda looked around and shrugged. And I wanted to say "What the hell? None of you know the primary ore of aluminum?" But I smothered that and explained it without the "pissing everybody off" part.
I am gonna go see Spirited Away sometime this week. Even if I have to pull an allnighter to make up for it. (And my inability to sleep less than 6 hours at a stretch. Very annoying, that.) |
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| 05:26am 20/10/2002 |
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mood:  restless music: Outkast - So Fresh, So Clean
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So, I spent the whole day surfing the web and, basically, idly browsing other people's writing. This is bad. I don't have enough time to do that (reading k5, webcomics, and journals/blogs) and school and DP and the other shit I want to. Sooo...Gonna stop reading all of those. See if that actually takes; I might have time to finish Totalitarianism and get going on my math notebooks.
Oops: D'l'ed three songs from Trace, realized they were all pretty damn good, decided to buy the CD. Found out those were the only three bearable songs on it. Pah.
WF stuff: Got malcolm's autogenerated docs thingie working. Python's simplicity and straightforwardness always amazes me when I start using it after a long Perl period. I wonder again why I even touch Perl. Then I try to imitate a web browser or verify an S/MIME signature and remember. :)
The math notebook thing: I came quite close to flunking Calc 4 last semester (after getting B+ to A in all my previous calc classes.) Still think a lot of that was two intersecting factors: the prof was not one to ask plug-n-chug questions; also, I never put much effort into actually following along the proofs (oh, and, I only went to class 5 times). To rectify this, I want to just go through the chapters we did, grok the proofs, and do many of the problems (all the proofs, and the other problems that have answers in the back) and then go back and do that for Probability, too. Good idea? Or stupid and doomed? |
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| 03:07pm 16/10/2002 |
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Remember Shadow, from American Gods? Here's his song.
"It's a hard place for a mortal man and a heartbroke pilgrim in the shadowland" |
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| 04:01pm 13/10/2002 |
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mood:  bored music: Steve Earle - Ashes to Ashes
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God, have I turned into the sort of person who enjoys finding errors in textbooks? Flipping through Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, I noticed a problem that involves asphyxiants, gases that are non-toxic but that exclude oxygen from the lungs; supposedly, asphyxiants start producing distress at a mole fraction of 0.5 (500,000 ppm). It then uses carbon dioxide as an example. However, CO2 is toxic at much lower concentrations -- the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/124389.html) says that 100,000 ppm (0.1 fraction) is immediately dangerous to life. Oops. |
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| 03:57am 04/10/2002 |
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mood: tired
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So I sacked out on one of the couches, 'cause I was too tired to even walk back home, and I had a weird dream...
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| 09:20am 29/09/2002 |
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I am 54% Geek
Nerd, Freak, Geek, Dweeb. Sound familiar? That's okay, cause I will be the richest person at my 15th year high school reunion. If a "con" isn't happening that weekend.
Take the Geek Test at fuali.com
Bah, now I just need to make some freakin' money from it. ;)
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| pyddr speedups |
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| 11:52am 28/09/2002 |
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mood:  curious music: DI.fm hard house
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Been thinking/working on this a bit more...I was probably wrong when I told novi that polling was the big issure. I finally ran profiler, and it showed that close on 3/4 of the CPU time is spent inside the dance mainloop (not called out to any other functions, including poll.) Also tried sleeping at the beginning of each loop; 0.02 s got about 60% CPU and decent animation, but 0.05 has crappy animation and 0.01 still takes ~80% CPU (on my Athlon 1.2), so this clearly isn't the solution. Does python support line-by-line profiling? It doesn't seem to, so I'm just gonna go through and put the mainloop in functions. Probably something that should have been done a long time ago, anyway. |
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| Name stuff |
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| 04:01am 27/09/2002 |
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mood: blank music: Steely Dan - Show Biz Kids
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(David Carle Young)
- What does your first name mean? Friend or beloved
- Your middle name, do you have one? Ayup. Everyone wants to pronounce it wrong, though — it's like Carl, not Carlie.
- What does it (your middle name) mean? Don't have a reference for the etymology, but my mom says it comes from 'housecarle'.
- What about that name at the end (unless you're a Jr. or III or something)? What it looks like. (Anglicized from "Junge", which also means "Young", when one of my paternal great-great-grandfathers figured a German surname and WWI made a bad combination.)
- So, if you were to put the meanings of all your names together, what would it say? Uh...The young, beloved, guardian of the King, I guess.
- If you'd been born the opposite sex, what would your parents have named you? I have no idea.
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