Insights round two: Focus on the Bible verse about noticing the plank in your eye before the speck in your neighbors. If you’re not a Bible person, don’t worry, it’s still good to think about. It is funny / sad to listed to people rant about the flaws of others… Continue reading
It’s 4:30… apparently I’m done sleeping for the night… Denny’s anyone? 😛 I think I should pare down my buddy list some too. I have 182 names on it, including some people I don’t even know. Other’s I have not talked to in 5+ years if ever. Now for some… Continue reading
Since everyone’s doing it, and if everyone else is doing it, it’s probably a good idea, I’m going to write about food. Q. If everyone else is jumping off the bridge would you? A. If everyone is jumping off the bridge, it probably means a train is coming… so yes…. Continue reading
With the advent of blogs like this one, the amount of up to the minute reports on the internet has skyrocketed. Now, the real question is: with all this information going out and coming in, are we better off, break even or worse off for the time and effort it… Continue reading
I just saw an article posting on Slashdot for terrabit data transmission. The comment about the article mentioned that this could transmit a two hour video in .5 seconds. That is awesome, and makes me wonder one thing – what will come after video? If you think about the history… Continue reading
Check out Google search specifically for blogs. Search for yourself and see what comes up. Other fun ones: LJSeek searches all posts, regardless of whether the user has made them engine searchable. LJFind not as good as LJSeek in my opinion.
It’s weird hearing people rationalize / justify decisions. It generally takes the form of a series of true statements which are not actually linked to the action in question. What sounds so logical to the person doing the justification sounds completely absurd and foolish to anyone else – but cannot… Continue reading
Ok, I was walking around today thinking about this… A photon is a tangible thing – extraordinarily small, but it does exist. Light moves very fast – nearly the speed of light, minus a little for the medium it’s traveling through. Momentum is mass * velocity. If a photon exists,… Continue reading
I know I’m shooting myself in the foot by not getting job immediately. However, I really don’t want to get a job yet. I really should have just stretched out my classes a semester longer and not graduated early. That way I could have had the summer at least partially… Continue reading
I seek to better understand JPEG compression. My camera takes pictures that are on the order of 700KB, but after minimal or no adjustment in Picasa, they save to about 1/3 the original size. Now, I know there’s EXIF information as part of the file, and that’s still there after… Continue reading