EDIT: All claims of doing anything useful have been retracted. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - The 5th Dimension
06:52 am - Singing songs This started out while singing the original, and realize that I forgot the words, which fit beautifully in a self parody. This is a rough draft, I probably polish it up so more, or tarnish it some more, I don't know which.
Singing songs - parody of Chasing Cars by Blue Jogger ( Read more... ) Current Mood: silly Current Music: Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
05:16 am - Coding in the middle of the night Algorithm for arbitrary long (well up to (2^31,31)) Hamming Codes. One should never code after midnight. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: awake
12:36 am Power went out from roughly 9:00pm to 12:20am. It was about a six block area affected. I am once again very grateful that my UPS kept my computer okay, long enough for me to save and shutdown.
However, Build's didn't work (same model) and we need a replacement for it. I wish I could afford an impressive battery bank so I wouldn't even notice a blackout for days at a time. But it is an expensive luxury compared to having a UPS for each computer.
I also went outside and shut off power to the inverter, not that it would do anything even if the sun was shining (it's got a safety feature that prevents it from feeding power to a dead grid). Tomorrow, I'll turn it back on when I'm sure that everything is back to normal.
EDIT: Checked SDGE's outage page, apparently the cause is "A vehicle has caused a problem with a power pole". Current Mood: awake Current Music: Simon And Garfunkel — The Sound Of Silence
08:13 am - Jumping Gigawatts! Antimatter detected in lightning! The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected gamma radiation in lightning. That has been fairly well established, but Fermi has able to confirm that the radiation matches to the decay of positions. Current Mood: amused
04:21 pm - Why vampires do what they do. I believe that I have determined the cause of the seemingly new behavior of vampires. Common theory holds that vampires have always been predators, and that the seeming new behavior of the Vampire Dramatica to fawn over dinner was disingenuous at best or, at worse, sign of some deep perversion to diddle with one's food.
I have found the behavior to be familiar... and doing some research, it most mimics the ants who care for and milk aphids. In fact the touching of the vampire seemed to be very similar to caress that ants give to stimulate milk production. The vampire's instinct to preserve a single or perhaps a select few "brides", which some female humans may confuse with love, seem to be built directly into the vampire's subconscious as some sort of preservation instinct.
But, this suggest that it wasn't a new mutation, but rather a return to a more primative form. And indeed, the recent, swooping in, a quick sucking rending the victim dead and then flee, is actually a new behavior. The Vampire Classica, which is now mislabeled in my opinion, was a recent adaptation to urbanization and the increased ability for humans to retaliate.
To test this, we dug up some old diaries of what we believe were vampire victims save for they seemed to survived into a surprising old age. In these diaries, looking at it under this new light, we see the same behavior, the vampire (elder gentleman) suddenly appears, stimulates the female to bring blood to the surface, the retrieval of the blood through the neck (all though, it is disguise with rather thin symbolism). But the fact that the gentleman is never seemed in the daylight and other classic clues seems to point to the classic vampire.
By next report, I hope to complete my findings but it doesn't look promising. Human population is spiraling out of control thus signaling that more vampires need to be Vampire Classica. Next time, I hope to unlock the secret to why some vampires burn in the sunlight and why others dimly sparkle (Vampire Illuminati) Current Mood: artistic Current Music: Help i'm alive - by Metric
06:39 am - Weird Dream Channel I'm not sure how it happened, but I was place on auction to be sold. A relatively nice couple looked at me, talked to me, and decided that I was worth having and explained that I would be expected to cook and clean and do other household chores and in return I got to live. If I did a really good job, there was certain other benefits besides being alive and well fed, but that would be negotiated at a future date.
At first, I was really happy because it meant I was employed again... Then my brain finally made the connection, if I hadn't been sold, my masters would have executed me.
As the punchline goes, "We know what type of person you are, we're just negotiating price." Current Mood: awake Current Music: Number On a Page - Eben Brooks
09:22 am - Weird Dream Channel Had the strangest dream, all I could remember was getting out of the hospital. I had redesigned my wheelchair so that I could ride as a vehicle, putting a wheel about eight feet in front of me to drag me along. I had gotten to the university where I had been taking classes when I saw caprine although her hair had gone completely silver and she had some wrinkles on her face. She was happy to see me, and thought, "What the hell happened?", but said nothing since she didn't say anything about the way I looked. I remember being confused, because the classrooms looked familiar enough, but not the same teachers. Eventually it dawned on me that time must have passed and it was a new semester.
In other news, the last couple of days my blood sugar has been spiking at the 300s around 5 in the afternoon, only to return to somewhat normal in the morning (100 to 130). This morning, it hit a new low of 88. Current Mood: hungry
07:30 pm - Okay Earthlings Here's the choices you get to make if you want to live on this rock, sustainably. Math and physics are included in the back of the book if you want to check his work.
03:34 pm - It's alive! I got my micro-controller kit and breadboarded a simple circuit around a ATmega168 with about 20 wires. It didn't work the first time (stupid color-coded resistor) and then the display showed one of the wires was indeed not firmly connected (yeap, ok, that wire was loose). Then plugged it in and it works. I wanted to take a picture, but I can't seem to find the camera.
It's got 20 MIPS with 16K of on-board memory which should keep me busy. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Weird Science - Oingo Boingo
03:06 pm - Is there an economist in the house? Even in the best of times, economy predicting is fraught with danger, and this is certainly not the best of times for predictions. It's interesting to see gold prices keep going up, which coupled with the news of central banks fleeing the U.S. dollar for euros and yen, seems to indicate that the general consensus is the dollar is going to keep losing value. (If this theory is correct, the gold bugs predict gold conservatively going to $2000 ounce.)
Then, there are those who say that gold is just the next bubble. And the smart investment is then silver which will go up in price (compared to the dollar) and faster to catch up with the relative price of gold (unless gold drops back down because it is under a price bubble). I'm afraid this assumes bimetallism actually works, at least that ultimately the same amount of silver should buy the same amount of gold most of the time barring any major changes in the supplies in either. (Which is not true, as more people are digging more gold out of the ground because it is relatively cheaper to do so, as long as they are paid in U.S. dollars to do so.)
With me so far?
Okay, most of this is really confusing since it's hard to measure the dollar falling against the boom market of resources (gold, silver, oil) going up. The G20 proposed solution is to stop comparing everything to the dollar and compare it to a different global currency. Economists that are for this says that it will help stabilize the global economy. The economists that oppose it seem to all be American economists who defend that the dollar is far from unstable.
I'm starting to believe it's all Pure F'ing Magic. Current Mood: contemplative
05:34 am - She's gone One of my new friends is gone, disappeared seemingly off the planet again. My only hope is that she's in a rather pleasant hypomanic state instead of anything truly worrisome.
Of course, I really shouldn't worry about her, it's not like I can save her or anything. Current Mood: worried Current Music: Everyday Superhero - Smash Mouth
06:25 am - Pour a little sugar on it oh yeah Yesterday, at dinnertime (5:05), my blood sugar was 236, I just checked it this morning (6:22) and I'm 77. Which is the lowest ever recorded. I don't have any symptoms of hypoglycemia except for slight headache (caffine!) and a craving for something sweet. Current Mood: hungry
11:27 am - Memories of the past This is an original 1970 VW Bus, you might recognize the original owner's name. If I had lots of money to spend on an expensive hobby, it would be tempting to buy it, fix up the interior and turn it into an electric. Although I am sure this is the original color, I remember the paint had faded to a much darker forest green.
The lows feel utterly nauseating (the low 100s, high 90s) and make me feel really cranky. The highs make me very hungry and dizzy. That they happen in the same day is just... special.
I've been warned by my doctor that getting down to 80s means I'm overcorrecting. Current Mood: nauseated Current Music: Sugar Sugar - The Archies
I really liked how most of the images turned out, you really get the sense that you're in a high-tech research facility that one could use to save the world with.
My boss really loved how it turned out. S just thinks he loves free labor. Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Ana Ng -TMBG
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