January 2012
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December 2011
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On Relationships.
grandmacrosby:
Grandma: “So, do you have a girlfriend?” Me: “Not right now, no.” Grandma: “Good, they cost money. Take it from me, I made your grandpa pay nickels out the ass before getting tied down.”
A friend from high school is staying with his grandma for Christmas. Blog-worthy hijinks apparently ensue.
Your opinion of how great you are at programming will follow a
bell curve....
– Tim Daly
This is the Great Temptation for any technological species—to shape their...
– Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens
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Christmas List 2011
It’s December again, and while most of my time will be spent agonizing over what to get everyone else, I have given some thought to what I would like, to save anyone else out there who might be agonizing some… well… agony.
24GB of RAM - If a little is good, more must be better.
NeuroSky MindWave - how cool is that? (It has an SDK and Mac drivers so I could write things for...
Just like implementing your own shell and raytracer, implementing your own FFT seems to be a nerd rite of passage. I just got mine working (it’s part of a larger project related to learning and recognizing sounds) and got so excited, I took a little video!
(Nerd notes: Yes, I know that human perception of sound is logarithmic and my printf-based metering is certainly linear. And I know the...