I remember waiting for The Lord of the Rings… will The Hobbit ever be made? hobbit2.jpg 792×1440 pixels.
Finally, after 27 days of slow uploading my laptop is finally backed up! Guess that’s what happens when you have over over 100 gigabytes of data uploading into cloud storage. So now I have all of my data backed up online and on an external hard drive. A good thing since I use this laptop [...]
Not a math teacher, but an interesting flaw in understanding. Hard to imagine that such a fundamental flaw could occur. Texas A&M News & Information Services » Blog Archive » Students’ Understanding Of The Equal Sign Not Equal.
Title: The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer Author: Neil Stephenson Media: Paperback Date: July-August 2010 Rating: 8/10 Like the other Neil Stephenson Books I have read (Snow Crash and Anathem), The Diamond Age sometimes gets a little lost in explorations of big picture ideas, but that doesn’t keep this story from being [...]
I’d sure like to be allowed to violate ethical and accounting procedures in my job and be paid $12million in compensation for the inconvenience of being fired. Not making this up. The CEO of HP has just been fired, apparently for carrying on an inappropriate relationship on company time and money. According to filings with [...]
This is about how I felt after seeing Inception for the first time. xkcd: Still No Sleep.
After a long day of coding, I finally have some serious progress on my game. It still looks pretty bad, but all of the player1 movement bugs seem to have been fixed and I probably only need about an hour of work to get player2 fully up and running. Once that’s done with, I guess [...]
Something of old news now, but I do like the sign outside the TWiT cottage now that they control the whole building. Welcome to the TWiT Cottage : LOL: The Life of Leo.
Title: French Lessons Author: Peter Mayle Media: Paperback Date: July 2010 Rating: 10/10 A delightful collection of stories about eating and cooking in France. I picked this book up at Barnes & Nobel to read while in Frace, figuring that I ought to read something about the country that I was visiting. Very funny and [...]
Title: The Dark Knight Returns Author: Frank Miller Format: Collected graphic novel Date: July 24th – 25th, 2010 (Yes, only 2 days). Rating: 9/10