| new blog |
[Apr. 10th, 2005|02:50 am] |
I'm no longer going to post here. You can see all subsequent postings on my new blog. |
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| parametric functions |
[Mar. 18th, 2005|08:35 am] |
The parametric function is the mother of all functions.
I'm going to try to remember that. |
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| Quote of the day |
[Mar. 16th, 2005|12:31 am] |
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
-- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988) |
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| Monday |
[Mar. 14th, 2005|09:20 am] |
Let's see if this works... |
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| sick of livejournal |
[Mar. 11th, 2005|07:24 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
I'm tired of writing crap for this site and having it disappear or be rejected because the server is down.
I'm tired. |
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| seriously |
[Mar. 9th, 2005|08:24 am] |
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Read-only for days. Is it my software? |
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| Thursdays |
[Mar. 3rd, 2005|08:17 pm] |
Got the car back last night. New wheel, no alignment. Works fine.
Stayed home today and worked. It seems every day this week I've posted a final version of this Fractions experiment software, because every morning they've come back with another thing that's wrong with it. Hopefully today's the last one.
Tomorrow morning I get to see the dentist again. I'm getting a biteguard so I don't break my teeth off while I sleep. I might have mentioned that before.
My back is about 90% good now. It still makes me notice something's not right sometimes, but it doesn't hurt like it did the other day.
I'm reading a new book, and I'll tell you all about it once I've finished it. It's a page turner so far, so I should finish this weekend. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 1st, 2005|09:41 pm] |
Feels like I pinched a nerve. Only really gets me when I stand or sit straight, or when I arch my back, or when I twist at the waist.
I need a new desk and I found the one I want.
Still waiting for that new wheel. Car's still in the shop. |
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| my back hurts again, damnit! |
[Feb. 28th, 2005|10:33 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | pained | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Stolf - Why Red | ] |
When I twist to the right, it feels bad. Pinched nerve? Slipped disc? Ah well, if I just sit here and don't arch my back I feel fine. Is that a hint?
It's all a mystery to me. I don't know how it works or why it doesn't.
Today was a long day of designing a lot of code and writing a little of it. Put the new car in the shop for $300 worth of new wheel. The old one had a big ol' dent in it, which was keeping the tire from holding any air in. Luckily, the wheel absorbed the shock and the suspension is intact.
I'm learning how to use Propellerheads Reason 2.5. It's loads of fun! Cutting into guitar practice though. Damnit. |
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| Friday |
[Feb. 25th, 2005|11:23 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  crappy | ] |
Today Sangeeta ran the new car over a concrete road divider while turning left out of a parking lot with a "No Left Turn" sign which she was trying to ignore. The alignment is whacked and the wheel might be bent. We'll have to take it in for service before we drive it very far.
Work sucked today too. I got very little accomplished and the little I did was very painful and unrewarding. At least my boss thinks I'm doing a good job. Of course, not a good enough job to pay me more than the 25th percentile for workers with my job in this area. Sangeeta likes to remind me of that. Still, working from home has its advantages, like the 4 second commute and the private refrigerator, so when I complain you should try to keep it in perspective. |
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| virtual memory |
[Feb. 24th, 2005|11:29 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  ecstatic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Mizerai - First Track | ] |
Haha! I figured out why I was having so many problems with my new computer! It was set to not use a pagefile!!! I can't believe it. Everything works so much better now, even when I'm using nowhere near my whole 2GB of RAM. I guess WinXP does funky stuff when there's no pagefile, but wow that one little setting tweak really improved performance.
So I recorded my first guitar track on my computer in a song environment! Once I get a decent performance I'll post a sample for people to hear. Finally! |
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| go fly a kite |
[Feb. 24th, 2005|09:48 pm] |
So, I went to the beach again today. I brought my kite with me so I could try some new stunts I saw on a video. The wind was pretty strong, but I did get some practice in. After an hour, I realized that I no longer had my line reel. It was just gone. Curses.
Work has been fairly productive today. I'm building a new release of the fractions experiment right now, as well as downloading the latest copy of my website. Oh yeah, I'm reworking the theme. It's sort of half-assed right now, but you can see it at http://www.mizerai.com. |
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| all the way down |
[Feb. 23rd, 2005|06:09 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  thoughtful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Killswitch Engage - Rose of Sharyn | ] |
I watched Donnie Darko - Director's Cut today. Summary: slightly disappointing.
It got me thinking though, which is usually hard but hardly unusual. I began wondering again about an analogy I read a couple years ago between holograms and consciousness. Holograms are created by interference patterns in the propagation of light waves. Consciousness might be created by interference in the propagation of waves of neural activation in the brain. It's not fleshed out to the point that it's an actual theory (at least not in my head) but it's got a good feel for me. |
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| long day |
[Feb. 23rd, 2005|01:15 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | tired | ] |
This morning was the monthly update meeting for the DWP project I've been working on for the last (almost) three years. Up before 6am, showered and dressed, and out into the rain for a nice soggy commute downtown.
Aside from myself there were three people there to present information and one guy came to listen. I got a tour of the new control room they put in, and the whole thing was over in under 20 minutes. Then it took me 90 minutes to drive back home.
At home things went better. I resisted powerful urges to gorge on whatever food we had in the house, and instead spent the day trying to make my screen layouts look pretty and professional. The end result is pretty good, though it doesn't scale properly for different screen resolutions. I'll have to figure out a way to make that happen...
Now I'm uploading all my changes to the CVS repository. It's 1am.
I'll see if it's done by morning. |
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| aftermath |
[Feb. 21st, 2005|03:53 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | peaceful | ] |
I walked on the beach today, after the storms had passed. The thunderheads to the east towered so high over the city that it seemed a miniature. The sea was brown with silt, and the shore was littered with whatever the rains had had washed away.
I found a tennis ball among the jetsam, and kicked it along in front of me as I walked down the shore. After a while, I started running after it, kicking it ahead and chasing to catch it before it rolled down the slope and into the waves. I found it easier to run after a ball than to just run. It took my mind off my sore awkward muscles and gave me an external focus. I'll have to try that more often. |
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| rain |
[Feb. 21st, 2005|10:44 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | relaxed | ] |
Water from the sky. It's all so wet, somehow.
Today I celebrate the death of several people who I didn't know, but who died in spectacular ways and were shown on the local news. One girl died while using her computer in her room when a rock fell of the hill in the back yard, went through the wall and killed her. One man died by falling into a 30' sinkhole (he was the supervisor of a construction crew charged with shoring up the sides of the hole). One man died when is roof caved in under the weight of all the water.
Power irregularities took down one of my computers last night but not the other one. Gotta get a UPS for the new system. Doesn't look like anything was damaged though, which is lucky. |
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| tolerance |
[Feb. 18th, 2005|10:38 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | edgy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Tears for Fears - Mad World | ] |
My tolerance level is low. There's an edge to my consciousness that's seeping into my bones. Shapes seem more jagged than usual. I'm listening to very soft music and it's making me angry, mocking my mood with its soothing sarcasm. I want to break glass. I want to splinter bones. I want to breathe fire.
I need more violent music! |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 18th, 2005|07:33 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | quiet | ] |
| [ | music |
| | silence | ] |
Yesterday Sangeeta and I drove down to Irvine for dinner Sam Woo restaurant. The best part was meeting friends and talking and joking around. The worst part was the 2.5 hour drive down there in rain and rush hour traffic. Still, we heard four whole CDs and were only half an hour late. 15 minutes of that I blame Sangeeta for, standing outside in the rain talking with her friend for 15 minutes after waiting all day for his lag ass to show up at the last second. Pissed me off.
It rained today too. Afterward we walked around the neighborhood.
I did some semifinal script tweaking on one of the experiments I'm developing. It took weeks for the designers to come up with the sequencing method they wanted to use for problems, so today I put the latest into effect. They'll be getting the rest of it to me next week, and I'll put up the final version.
Long weekend coming! |
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| dreams |
[Feb. 15th, 2005|11:05 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | bemused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Bach - Preludio for Guitar | ] |
Isn't it nice how sometimes your dreams are so much better than your reality? I mean actual sleepytime dreams, not like abstract life aspirations or anything like that. I had a nice one last night, the details of which need not concern you. ;P
I'm having computer trouble (still!) trying to make music on my new computer. I'm just not getting any damn sounds to come out on playback. Infuriating. MIDI works but audio samples are dying somewhere.
I did some graphical layout programming today. Text layouts in the form of math problems. Trying to make sure the fit in a properly sized box. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing since you need to know how big the text is in order to figure out its bounding box but then you need to know how big the box is going to be so you can pick the proper size text. You've got to bootstrap from the size of the window in this case and make heuristic decisions early on. So far it mostly works. :)
Tomorrow I'll figure out where to put these boxes... |
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| school |
[Feb. 14th, 2005|10:37 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | sore | ] |
Turns out Sangeeta's classes start tomorrow instead of today. She was so embarrassed when she found out.
My hands hurt. I'm going to stop typing for a while. |
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