Saturday Feb 04, 2012

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I will be driving to Seattle in a couple of hours to watch a friend get a tattoo finished, my wife get her nipples pierced, and then dinner at Dick's Drive-in with friends.

Should be a fun evening!
kelpie_:
sounds sexy!

Friday Feb 03, 2012

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I am finding it extremely difficulty to force myself to go to my last class on MWF.

The Prof. is boring and rambles a lot. When he does say something interesting it's almost what's in the textbook verbatim. I've been looking over my notes from that class and they range from one sentence, such as "read ch x," to barely covering a quarter-page (typed).

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Thursday Feb 02, 2012

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In my Mobile Devices Programming class my team (me and one other guy) finally got our CVS repository set up (by the Prof.) the other day. We still need to meet and discuss who is doing what and actually get started.. but at least we know what we are going to do (Android app that calculates bus route(s) for the rider) and got it approved...
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Wednesday Feb 01, 2012

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Zombie or Robot Apocalypse?

Would a Zombie (i.e. The Walking Dead) or a Robot (i.e. Terminator) Apocalypse provide a better chance for human survival?
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serial:
Zombie... because we're more prepared for it. Surviving the zombie apocalypse is as well placed in peoples minds as what to do during an earthquake. It's that popular of a possibility.

Daniel Wilson has a book out called, "How to survive a robot uprising" but I bet more people have read Max Brooks', "the zombie survival guide."

The most we know of a robot apocalypse is The Terminator series, but how to survive that isn't an everyday discussed topic.

Now, if we actually follow our zombie survival plans or robot shutdown plans, is a whole different issue...

If ya consider the average intelligence behind either subject or amount of good weapons on hand vs either subject:
one person vs one zombie = better chance of surviving
one person vs one robot = most likely dead
canutethegreat:
All very good points ladies! smile Also, thanks for the ideas on some new books to read!

Another issue with the Zombie apocalypse is the time it takes for a person to go from infection to zombie: if it's too short, the infection will not likely get past the initial outbreak locale. However, if it's fairly long (hours to a day or possibly more), then it has the potential to spread far.

I also think that a zombie outbreak would have more initial deaths than a robot uprising. I mean in most robot-related stories, the first versions looked very mechanical/metallic - this would be easy to identify at a distance. Yet a human vs zombie comparison at a distance would be harder. In fact it could be quite difficult up close: no missing limbs, no blood dripping from the mouth, not dragging a broken leg. Could still be either. You don't want to yell or talk too loud out in the open because you never know what's lurking around the corner/in the shadows. If you get close enough to talk at a reasonable level, then you are in putting yourself in danger of being attacked if it turns out to be a zombie. However, unless you've "passed the point of no return" and are willing to shoot anything/anyone that _might_ be a zombie, then you have to make close contact to tell the difference between zombie and survivor.

Lots of issues on both sides and even more variables that change the potential outcomes.

Another one to toss in the mix would be alien invasion/attack. Plenty of stories on that...

Tuesday Jan 31, 2012

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I've been playing with crark, a RAR archive cracker, for the past couple of days. It can use a CPU or the GPU to do the computations. However, it does not seem to parallelize anything. What's the point in that? Ideally it would parallelize the checking and the computations.. but at least make the checking parallel since that is the biggest bottleneck. I haven't looked...
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Monday Jan 30, 2012

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You know when you get a little behind on something because of other commitments and kind of think to yourself that you'll catch up over the weekend?

Yeah, that was me two weeks ago.

I just realized that I'm now two full chapters behind in my math class and we have a double-header test this Friday.

Now I really have to play catch up...

Monday Jan 30, 2012

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Damn.. 5am shows up awful fast when you don't fall asleep until after midnight!

Sunday Jan 29, 2012

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I feel like we, these people of the United States of America, have begun a journey down a road from which we shall not return.

A path with consequences that will not be able to recover from.

A road that has been traveled by the Romans, and many, many more us.

I fear that it may already be too late in some ways, but there...
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Tuesday Jan 24, 2012

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Sad facts about my (almost) decade long pursuit of higher education:


  • 1. It took me 4 years to finish an Associate in Arts and Sciences degree at Whatcom Community College. Why? I only went part-time (with only a few exceptions) and I changed majors several times: graduated as a History major, but I had enough credits to have graduated as a Administration of Justice (my...
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kerli:
Congrats!! Keep up the hardwork!!

Tuesday Jan 03, 2012

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Two steps forward, one step back! mad

So financial aid went through without a hangup, but come to find out I'm only getting a little over $1k back after tuition is paid.. why? because I'm a post-bac student and only eligible for loans and not grants (I already knew that) but Federal limits on the amount of loan money you can receive each year limits me...
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sinner:
Thank you for the love on my new set "Rain Dance" kiss
Hope everything works out for you though eeek

Monday Jan 02, 2012

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I spent my birthday and the day after sick.. not from partying, but from the flu. I was hoping it was just a bad cold, but no such luck! mad

Oh, and winter quarter starts tomorrow! My first class is at 8am. yay me! puke

Thursday Dec 29, 2011

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"...creative Labs makes some shitty software..." -- Me, early 90s. Surprise! That statement is still true today! Just spent 20 minutes on a customer's computer "fixing" things that creative's software screwed up.

They must hire the software developers that Micro$oft rejects...
taegan:
Happy Birthday & thanks! biggrin
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