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As the title says. I got myself the money to spend on this technological marvel.. :p because I had seen what compact cameras did and I didn't like it.
Now, today I picked it up and it was a lot like christmas I must say. :) Charged the battery put on the lens, checked out all the stuff you could do. Tested the zoom and wondered, where is the memory card? (or CF-card as the camera calls it)
I look through everything in case I missed it. After all, they're fairly small.
I read the list of things that are supposed to be in the package and I realize that there's no CF card featured with the camera. (doh) Something I had completely overlooked, as I basically took it for granted that there would be atleast a small card in the package so you could atleast take a few photos with it. But no... no card.
So what I got now is a 7000kr or 1000$ or 770€ paperweight. A very nice and cool paperweight with zoom abilities. But a paperweight never the less.
Of course, I basically ordered a card instantly. (Found a nice cheap one for 400kr at 1gb with 66x speed) But it won't show up before monday. So, yay me. :D -
Probably one of the greatest and most memorable deathmatch battles of our time.
http://www.soulsphere.org/random/ralphis-vs-fraggle.zip
Green: Fraggle
Indigo: Ralphis
Recorded in Doom 1.91 format. You can play back using Doom 1.91, PrBoom (recommended) or Chocolate Doom. -
Not really. Yesterday evening lightning not only blasted the surge protector, but also the modem that was connected to it, rendering me to only use my satellite internet connection. Wanting to get my online gaming back, I took a trip to Best Buy and returned the modem that was covered in the 1 year warrenty thing by Dynex.
Alright well, they didn't have any more internal ones, because all of the 20 they had in stock were all gone from the night before and this morning, apparently other people who use 56k for whatever has their modems busted as well. So, I got an external USB modem.
Only problem is, when I try to connect, it would sometimes pause between sounds and no go any further for minutes at a time, and if somehow I did connect, the bit rate it'd show would be **********ly low, like 16.6 or 22.4 compared to my normal 48.0 or 50.2. To top that off, within 30 to 60 seconds, it'd disconnect because of a 'failed' connection. I used the cord and everything that came with it, and i'm guessing that the phone lines got fucked up somehow, because this happened the last time I got a modem and it blew due to lightning activity.
But what I don't get is how it's giving me all these hassles through the phone lines. Is it the hardware that's bad? The fun never stops :/
EDIT: Rofl why is r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s censored? -
Not really. Yesterday evening lightning not only blasted the surge protector, but also the modem that was connected to it, rendering me to only use my satellite internet connection. Wanting to get my online gaming back, I took a trip to Best Buy and returned the modem that was covered in the 1 year warrenty thing by Dynex.
Alright well, they didn't have any more internal ones, because all of the 20 they had in stock were all gone from the night before and this morning, apparently other people who use 56k for whatever has their modems busted as well. So, I got an external USB modem.
Only problem is, when I try to connect, it would sometimes pause between sounds and no go any further for minutes at a time, and if somehow I did connect, the bit rate it'd show would be **********ly low, like 16.6 or 22.4 compared to my normal 48.0 or 50.2. To top that off, within 30 to 60 seconds, it'd disconnect because of a 'failed' connection. I used the cord and everything that came with it, and i'm guessing that the phone lines got fucked up somehow, because this happened the last time I got a modem and it blew due to lightning activity.
But what I don't get is how it's giving me all these hassles through the phone lines. Is it the hardware that's bad? The fun never stops :/
EDIT: Rofl why is r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s censored? -
I love it when my coworker asks me if I'm aware of things.
If I'm aware of what time it is. If I'm aware that the client is expecting something tomorrow morning. If I'm aware that they want stuff. If I'm aware that I work at a company that provides products and services.
Yeah, he's just being bitchy. Maybe it's just a little difficult for me to have sympathy for his having to work at 8PM. That probably has to do with the fact that I am also working at 8PM.
So he's on this telecommuting... thing. He's at the vacation house and contacting everyone via his stylish new smartphone. I hope it was as therapeutic as he intended it to be, because it's sure not doing a damn thing for me. He's just as irritating 200 miles away as he is from across the room. The only difference being that it's harder to amuse myself with the mental image of walking over to his desk and punching him in the throat. -
Schools back. :o
Thius year should rule, I can pretty much do whatever I want. In other words. Actually engross myself into a serious project.
Looking forward to use the computers (G5 :D ) at school to do some 3d modeling. Although most modeling I do will still be from home.
Paining will be a big part of my day. :D
Drawing kroki and models will rule. And I will get time and motivation to do a lot of concept art for my other projects.
This is gonna be good I think. -
Great... Both digits are the same; now WTH do I do?
Last night I had the most expensive dinner of my life (fruits of the sea) so yay for me. -
YOUR DAD IS A MOTHERFUCKER
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I can't afford my internet connection anymore so I might not be around much. This will give me time for my work though, so I guess it's okay...that is until my electricity is also truned off. Being poor is great.
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I can't afford my internet connection anymore so I might not be around much. This will give me time for my work though, so I guess it's okay...that is until my electricity is also truned off. Being poor is great.
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I went mountain biking / camping with two co-workers this last weekend on the North Umpqua Trail in Oregon. Here are some pictures:
I'm on the left, trying to get some extra sleep.
My awesome bike with some of the gear on the back
On the left again
Heh, I sort of wiped out, and a stick ripped off some flesh from my knee.
It's just a flesh wound!
Beautiful Crater Lake
EDIT: Um, apparently some people aren't seeing the thumbnails that link to the full sized image and only see links to the thumbnails. If this is the case, you suck, and you'll have to remove the .th part of the image name in the url to see the full image. -
I need to replace one of my teflon frying pans. :(
I came home at half past 5 this morning and was starving hungry. I made some instant mashed potatoes, and put the pan with meatballs on the stove, and whipped the mashed potatoes.
But I was really tired and kinda wasted, so I got a bit flustered by whipping the potatoes, so I decided to lay down on the floor for a bit while the meatballs got warm. Then I fell asleep and woke up at about 7 or 8 with the oil in the frying pan turned into some black tar like shit and the meatballs being small hard black and brown balls.
It was not a very good pan though. And pretty cheap.
But still,
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As some of you may know, I'm just a pretty flippin' indifferent person. I get over problems in about 2 seconds and it takes something extraordinary to get me into any sort of excited state. You might compare me to Data from Star Trek TNG.
I've heard some unsettling stories about people who have watched The Exorcist. Apparently lots of people actually vomit when they see the movie. I find it hard to believe that images on a screen and sound coming from speakers can do such a thing, but hey, I'm open minded. Well, not wanting to end my 13-year no-vomit streak, that adds an element of excitement to me watching the movie.
If you yourself haven't seen The Exorcist before then you should find what I have to say quite interesting (don't worry, no real spoilers). After owning the movie on DVD for about 2 years, I find myself with lots of spare time on a Canada Day long weekend.
So I start watching it at about 11PM tonight. I'm alone in my room, with my trilight bedlamp set to its lowest level. I've got a DVD player in my laptop, WinDVD 4, a SoundBlaster Audigy 2, and form-fitting earbuds (the kind that seal inside your ears). This is all highly significant. Basically nothing would amplify the effects of The Exorcist more than the setup I have in my room. (Two words: isolated, immersed)
So I watch about 45 minutes of fairly enjoyable dialogue and drama (it's an enjoyable experience watching any movie on my laptop). Then we get to the "good" part. You know, the part where the doctor enters the girl's room and sees in-person what's actually happening to her. I haven't seen anything yet, but just the sound at this point is reminding me of nightmares I had years ago. I can feel muscles throughout my body tightening up and I can't seem to control it. Then a few seconds later I catch a glimpse of the girl's face, and wouldn't you know it, all of the sudden I find myself fighting off waves of nausea. It doesn't make any sense. Not wanting to end my streak, I turn myself around 180 and wait for the scene to pass, still hearing everything. This is barely effective, as the sounds I'm hearing are almost physically intolerable.
At this point I'm just awestruck at the effect that scene had on me, and the pure primal terror I felt sink into my body for that few seconds. It's completely irrational and it makes no sense whatsoever. I wasn't even looking at the "good" part for more than maybe 1/2 a second.
A few minutes later I get to the "next good" part. This is the part where the girl is "walking" downstairs in a very unconventional way. Again, I see (in the corner of my eye) only about the first 1/2 second of her coming down the stairs, and I feel my entire body tense up in complete tingly convulsions, the kind that I've only felt in nightmares or "night terrors." I turn away, rip the earphones off and shake away the feeling, again completely amazed at what I just experienced. Just like I would after a rare nightmare, I'm sitting there waiting for the senseless feeling of terror to leave my body, and I'm completely awake. Unbelievable.
Whoever made this movie is, IMO, a genius with an incredible understanding of the human psyche. He identified the completely irrational images and sounds that gives us terror in our sleep, and he gives us the EXACT SAME sensations WHILE WE'RE AWAKE. That's the whole thing about The Exorcist. In theory it shouldn't be scary, as nothing "threatening" is actually happening. But that's the way nightmares are too! It allows people like me to experience the illogical effects of night terror on-demand, without having to wait for the 1 in every 500 nights that they actually occur.
So it's 12:45 AM now, and I'm less than halfway through the movie, and I'm still deciding whether to keep watching. But in a way, I've already achieved what I wanted: I now understand how people could vomit from watching this movie, even though I didn't do so myself. If I do continue watching, I will be ready to bail out at any second. -
I feel like an old man at 23, but finally, it's an excuse to legitimately drink as much as I usually do. Unfortunately, I have no worthwhile insights to offer, though I hope that since 23's my lucky number this year might be better than others (it already will be since I'm graduating after the Fall semester).
Anyway, yay and stuff. Guiness and other beers, here I come. -
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12
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Psyonisis said:edit: What I mean is that... you can use the zeta function to prove that the sum is -1/12, but you did say that it's illegal to evaluate that function at -1. I don't understand how any other method could possibly get around that.
The series doesn't converge, so it can't be used to evaluate the zeta function at that point. But it certainly is the zeta series for -1, and the zeta function of -1 is -1/12.
As I said, the interesting thing isn't that you can assign a value to the sum by interpreting it in a certain way (you could define it to equal 0, 100, or "strawberry cake", or whatever), but that this particular interpretation leads to meaningful results. So there is an underlying structure; the sum reflects this structure although some aspects of it differ in a more concrete interpretation (such as having the limit of ∞, and not -1/12).
GH Hardy wrote an entire book on divergent series. I might check that out some day.
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12
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I'm glad someone asked.</troll>
You get it by evaluating Riemann's zeta function ζ(s) = 1 + 2^-s + 3^-s + ... for s = -1. This sum representation of the zeta function only converges when s > 1 so the sum is technically illegal for s = -1. However, the zeta function of -1 can be calculated as -1/12 using other methods, and hence the equality holds in a certain formal sense.
This may not seem different from the standard false proofs that 1=2 (typically using an obscured division by zero). But the remarkable thing is that the zeta sum can be interpreted meaningfully. For example, the fact that 1+2+3+... can be summed to -1/12 has applications in physics, so it appears to be empirically "justifiable" (is nature playing tricks on us?). See Wikipedia: applications of the zeta function.
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12
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ok so theres booze, and sleep deprivation. what else?
i need to be really fucked up come tomorrow morning.
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Friday night: I go out to a bar, hang out, have some fun. At about 1:30 a girl comes over and sits down next to me, we talk a little, next thing I know she is hanging off me and we leave together. We make out a bit on the way to my car, I drive her back to her place, make out some more, we exchange numbers and she says she'll give me a call on Saturday or I should call her.
Saturday afternoon: I give her a call and leave a message on her voicemail saying, hey, I had a great time last night, let's do it again. She text messages me a while later basically saying "ummm I was really drunk and I don't know if I remember you." We text back and forth a bit and she says we should hang out and she'll call me Sunday.
Sunday morning: She texts me asking for my email address, so I text it back to her. Pretty soon she sends me an email explaining that she was really drunk and I seemed like a nice enough guy but she felt weird calling or going out with a guy she remembers next to nothing about. I email her back saying yeah that is kind of weird and talk a bit about myself and about what she had told me on Friday. I give her my AIM name in the process
Sunday afternoon: She AIMs me and we chat for a little while. We agree to go out for a drink or something on Wednesday.
Sunday night: At about 9:30 pm she texts me again, asking if I want to go out for a drink right then. I say sure, why not, and I go over to her place, pick her up, and we go to a nearby bar for a few drinks. After about an hour we are making out again, she says she shouldn't stay up too late since she has to get up early and we go back to her place and make out some more. She says she wants me to stay the night but isn't sure because if I do there's basically no chance of her getting up early because she's going to be jumping my bones. I don't want to be screwing up her life so I take a rain check and finally leave around midnight. After all we can get busy on Wednesday.
Monday morning: I text her saying "hey thanks for last night". Pretty soon I get an email from her saying she had fun too, but she doesn't feel any chemistry between us, so have a nice life. Uh, OK?
KNOWN MISTAKES:
* Going out on Sunday night, it made me appear like I was ready to drop everything for her and she didn't have to compete for my attention.
* Acting too nice, I gave her a lot of compliments (mostly during making out) that again probably made me look weak and needy. If we're furiously making out she doesn't need much more validation that I think she's hot.
* Not pushing her to fool around on Sunday night, even if things were doomed anyway I should have done everything I could to get laid.
