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Not much to report today. I’m totally procrastinating on writing more benchmark code because, well, I suck. Need to get these things done. The machine goes back on Friday. Went to the zoo today, in a futile effort to calm my favorite stressball. We hung out in front of the Snow Leopards for a . . . → Read More: Lazy day Entertaining. I’m either a leader, or a psycho killer. Runner ups, psychotic or a fighter pilot. Wheeeee! You scored as Capt. Mal Reynolds. The Captain. You are the captain of the ship, so the crew are your responsibility. You just want to do the job, get paid and keep flying. Why is that always so . . . → Read More: Serenity quiz. Last night, went into Roslindale for sushi with friends. Sat up talking until 11, and then turned into pumpkins like the old people we are, and drove home. Thud. Asleep in moments. This morning, measured the bedroom as well as the space between the rafters in the dark and terrifying part of the attic (17′ . . . → Read More: Productive! If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want–good or bad. When you’re finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or moritified) about what . . . → Read More: Everybody else is doing it … I start to see what the protesters and hippies are whining about with our news media. Let me repeat the important stories in the world, for those who don’t get out much: Paris is burning after 7 days of rioting. 73,000 people are about to die of starvation in Packistan. THE CIA RAN . . . → Read More: Goddamn news media Tonight was the first sparring night we’ve had at the gym in a while. My second time ever. Apparently, right before I joined the gym it had gotten pretty ugly in the sparring department, with emergency room level injuries every week. So my teacher called it off for a year or so. Now we’re getting . . . → Read More: Sparring More tinkering with numbers. The DOE’s energy calculator is awesome. I’m very confused right now. 1 kwh = 3412BTU 1 gallon of heating oil is 139,000BTU Yearly kwh consumption: 1.291e3 * 3.412e3 = 4.4e6 Yearly fuel consumption: 1.162e3 * 1.38000e5 = 1.6e8 This isn’t all that surprising, since we use the oil to both heat . . . → Read More: Energy conversions So, I’m hackin’ some PERL. As frequently happens, the fact that it’s PERL leads me down this crazy obscure path of references to arrays and arrays of references. I would up doing something the hardest and most bass-ackwards way possible: print ${@{split(/ /, $string)}}->[$i] . “\n”; This produced an error message I’ve never seen . . . → Read More: Perl humor I’m tinkering with data, now that I’ve got a full year of usage information on my house. * We burned 1162.3 gallons of heating oil last year ($1825) * We burned 1291.06 kwh of electricity last year. ($1291) * We used 5,100 gallons cubic feet of water last year. ($199) I also noticed that . . . → Read More: Energy |
