Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at
tldr: I’m annoyed by how a particular Amway marketing scheme works.
I don’t like it. It’s been a semester (and a year) since it’s happened, and I still don’t like it. It’s not a raise-a-ruckus dislike, nor a taser-toting-demonstration dislike, but just a post-on-a-blog level of dislike, especially since no one else is talking about it.
Okay, so what am I talking about? On my particular campus, I’m been solicited twice to join the Worldwide Dreambuilders (mostly because I have feet in the music and math communities), an organization dedicated to helping young people like myself build a business and make some money.
Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at
So, I’ve been doing some thinking (surprise!); while we as a society worry about an apocalypse that forces us back to the dark ages, there is precious little done about it. It’s mostly just something to entertain ourselves with (I’m guessing that it’s also easier to write for, because if 99% of the population is gone, then you don’t have to write or ignore a whole bunch of people, or set the story somewhere like backroad Canada), which isn’t surprising, but it got me thinking about how quickly humans can rebuild a society after a worldwide event.
Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at
One of my projects in progress depends on the generation of different colored objects (Trust me, once I actually get a release pushed out, it will make sense (actually, I also need to push out a new iteration of my LaTeX editor. Note that I’m putting the name up for reconsideration)). First, I’ll define HSV space for y’all: assuming that you are familiar with RGB space… or, RGB space is the definition of colors by red, green, and blue components (hence the acronym RGB).
Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at
So, I utterly fail at keeping my blog up to date over the time period when I had a decent amount of time. My break mostly consisted of either hacking on the bottleneck assignment problem solver (I’ve transitioned to a C++ based one from Python), trying to get my newly minted academic application system framework to a version 0.1, sleeping, and slacking off. The time off was nice, but I need more of it without the drop in productivity that comes with going home.
Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at
Have a story. Haven’t forgotten about that (yet). I’ll update with more information on everything later.
The story’s about a woman talking to her imaginary friend. Had an interesting time noticing that I’m developing an idiosyncratic style.
Status: “let it go…”
Me: “Like this.”
She dropped the stone into the pond, watching the ripples lazily sprawl over the water. She turned to her with an inquisitive look.
“You try, now?”
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2010 at
So I’ve decided to use Zenphoto as my image manager of choice, since it drops in nicely and it’s not impossible to use. I’d rather roll my own, but I’ve been planning on using my spring break for other things. However, the number of bugs and the un-zen like nature of zenphoto doesn’t settle well with me, so chances are better than zero that I’ll be whipping up a custom image manager sometime.
Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at
So I didn’t get around to updating last night before going to bed at 3:30, but I’m getting around to it now. You should notice the site overhaul: I still have a garish gimp flame-plugin thing, but I needed some green, and making something by hand just wasn’t working out. The color scheme is based on brown, just because it is? I tried it out, and it worked, so I ran with it.
Posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 at
So, I figured that I would just update everyone on exactly how I’m throwing my life away. First and foremost, I finished another set of reprap parts, this time the z-axis support brackets. If I can move it along, and my partner in crime joins in, then we’ll have these parts made in no time. Now, I won’t have access to the machine shop for the next week, so implementation will halt for a while.
Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at
Okay, I just felt like I had to do one. Here ya’ll go.
Status Update: feeling lucky to be single :)
Response:
"You're doing it wrong."
He wiped some of the dust out of his eyes, probably a bit of the bank that used to be a few meters to the left. He *thought* that a city block or more had just been leveled, but stranger things have happened before when he was in this state.
Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at
Well!
Today, I’ve touched on cython, python profiling, and numpy. Guess who’s wrangling with number intensive code? I’m still working on the bap problem, although I’ve gotten it speedier: not quite speedy enough, though. The guys from 40 years ago are probably still beating me. Hopefully, I have time to write this up so everyone is a bit less confused, although this is unlikely.
Things to do:
Homework up the wazzoo!