Archive for December, 2006

Melt a coin for me.

December 14th, 2006

So, I was pondering the significance of a penny I dropped today and left on the ground as a seepage of cash from the U.S. economy and I thought… how bad would it be if everyone in the US was losing a penny a month:
295,734,134 [people in US] * 12 [pennies / year] = $35,488,096.08 [...]


Fractals and Russian Defence

December 13th, 2006

So… first, Scott “Spot” Draves’ work has always enlightened me, but here (google vid) is the first time I’ve seen his work explained for a nearly layman audience… err well a crowd of people who work at Google Inc. So I guess the audience isn’t exactly 1st graders.
Scott Draves first came on my radar [...]


So good when it stops…

December 12th, 2006

Sometimes, I get myself in a bind and find myself sinking under more and more anxiety as I put things off further and further until there’s no hope and I just have to confront whatever the issue is and deal with it. Usually, in this world, this revolves around anything that could possibly be [...]


You learn something new every day.

December 8th, 2006

Let’s see, what have I learned these past weeks.
If you have the same RAM, same part number and everything, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the RAM will work. Because the RAM still may have changed between production lines. That said, Kingston is really nice and within driving distance of LA.
Don’t eat a massive [...]