Archive for the 'observational' Category

Oh shit, I’m a real person now … (or: Temporal Inevitability and Me)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’ve been contracting for basically the last year or so. Before that, I was in class working towards graduation, and then working towards getting a job that pays well enough to pay back the student loans and … err … eat.
It’s interesting though. Now that I’m a full-time employee with a permanent position, [...]

Local water

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Do you ever think to yourself something along the lines of … “I am amazed by what I’m seeing, and I will be back tomorrow to see it again and to photograph it” only to learn that tomorrow it will be gone?
So about a block away from my house, there’s a wooded area that apparently [...]

An interesting interview question

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

So, I interviewed for a job last week. Some nice people, and someone who I don’t think was enthusiastic about me writing about things like upcoming interviews. Sort of ambivalent on that …
But one of the interview questions that one of the unix guys I talked to asked me really struck me, and [...]

Ratio sites, and coping with the consequences of zero-sum

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Ratio-based torrent sites are getting pretty common (I regularly use 4 of them now). So all of this is in the context of bittorrent and ratio-sites. I’m planning on this post being a general examination of the structures and mechanics involved in these sites.
The meat is this: since bittorrent is a zero-sum protocol, [...]

colds suck, and 9 other unfinished thoughts:

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Rather than try to shape the random things floating around in my head into coherent, readable whole-posts (and thus spending several hours I don’t really have to spare right now, thanks to wanting to sleep), I’m just going to give them to you in half-finished one-liner form:
1: When you lose weight (by burning fat, say), [...]