Archive for February, 2006

Joining the not-hosted-on-a-cable-modem community

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

So, I’m finally doing it. I got my tax refund back, and I decided to spend about a third of it on domains and hosting …
So now I’m complich8.[com/net/org] instead of archlich.dyndns.org.
I’m going to make every attempt to avoid breaking things … but we’ll see how it goes.
Meanwhile, update your links/bookmarks/etc. Point them [...]

exam roundup

Monday, February 27th, 2006

So, CS448 Exam 1 today, and oh man … what an ugly thing to do to a class.
Exam was at 9:30, in class, 50 minutes to complete it. 6 questions, directions say to pick 5 of them to answer.
Now, there’s 20 people in my class. 20 people, who are all in [...]

random conversation

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I had a conversation with my old friend (and former roommate) Pat (Esker Curve) not too long ago. It sort of meandered… but I felt like it’d serve as a good window to my current mindset, and I guess to how other people see me. So I’m posting a chunk of it. [...]

Xenosaga 2

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Slightly more than 30 hours in, last level cleared…
It’s been a good run.
Interestingly, the game’s got a “postgame” — you load up your clear data, and you’re back at the point before the last level, with the stage open to you, but you can also “dive” into the stage and loot it (like any cleared [...]

More logical fallacies

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Well, it’s hard to pin down the fault on this one… but it’s probably both Christine Yamashita and Abigail Rouse who are to blame.
Christine wrote this letter to the editor in the Exponent (which appeared Feb 10th). In it, she makes the horrible, poorly thought-out argument:
I mean, think of how the world would [...]