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February 9th, 2010
02:34 pm - Felony Snowball Charges
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0209101snow1.html
Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard.
Five years for throwing snowballs at a cop car. That's more time than some people receive for murder in this country.
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February 8th, 2010
11:34 pm - The random button
Sometimes random doesn't look so bad...
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February 7th, 2010
10:06 pm - hahah @ the Colts
PWNed!
I guess throwing those two games so Peyton could "rest up" worked out well for you.
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February 6th, 2010
04:58 pm - Brian Greene's _The Fabric of the Cosmos_
I finished reading this book, after a year or three of trying to slog through it. I didn't enjoy it much, not nearly as much as I liked his previous book _The Elegant Universe_. It felt like the textual equivalent of chewing gristle. I don't know if it's because I am so close to the subject now, or what, but there you have it.
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February 5th, 2010
02:20 am - Longbow Nictus dings 50
While solo framming in the AE. My reflexes suck and this was right after the ding animation. \m/ Warshade powah
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February 4th, 2010
02:01 pm - Natalie Imbruglia - Want
All that you want
I hope you get all that you want
I hope you get all that you want
So I suppose you got what you want
Take a good look at what you give up
Because I’m telling you
A heart can’t be unbroken oh, oh, oh, oh
And can you remember how I kiss you
Recall the sweet taste in your mouth
Cos baby the memory is all you get now
And I’m moving, movin, moving on
All that you want
I hope you get all that you want
I hope you get all that you want
Cause I do
I hope you get all that you want
I hope you get all that you want
Cause I do
Does every morning make you happy
And tell me do you laugh yourself to sleep
I hope you find it easy to forget me oh, oh, oh, oh
I hope you don’t feel anything when you see me
I wonder if you’re out there having fun
I hope you get all that you really wanted
Cause I’m moving, movin, moving on
Don’t you see the light has changed
And nothing looks the same
Just shadows on the ground
And if you listen carefully you’ll hear
All that you want
I hope you get all that you want
I hope you get all that you want
Cause I do
I hope you get all that you want
I hope you get all that you want
Cause I do
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11:07 am - This sucks
I couldn't sleep a wink. I guess the plus side is that I'm not yet sleepy.
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February 3rd, 2010
02:58 pm - Project Euler, Problem 9
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=9
There exists exactly one Pythagorean triplet for which a + b + c = 1000.
Find the product abc.
I approached this two ways. The first way was a purely bruteforce method. Run through a lot of a's and b's, calculate c, and if a+b+c=1000, print out everything. This results in a lot of non-integer c's getting created and then the user has to sort through the results to find the right c. It was easy to code, and is behind the cut.
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I remembered though, somewhere in my memory, that there was a formulate to generate Pythagorean triples. A quick trip to wikipedia and I had Euclid's formula for doing the job. So I rewrote my code to use that, and voila! It spit out the right answer.
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February 2nd, 2010
08:41 pm - Ug
Man, I must be coming down with something, I've slept most of the day and I'm kinda tired.
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February 1st, 2010
09:45 pm - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Moonland
When I came up from out of the meat-locker
the city was gone
the sky was full of lights
the snow provides a silent cover
in moonland, under the stars
under the snow, I followed this car
and I followed that car, through the sand
through the snow, I turn on the radio
I listen to the deejay, and it must feel nice
it must feel nice to know, that somebody needs you
and everything moves slow, under the stars
under the ash, through the sand
and the night drifts in, the snow provides a silent cover
and I'm not your favourite lover, I turn on the radio
and it must feel nice
o very very nice to know, that somebody needs you
and the chilly winds blow, under the snow
under the stars, the whispering deejay
on the radio, the whispering deejay
on the radio, I'm not your favourite lover
I'm not your favourite lover, and it must feel nice
to leave no trace (no trace at all)
but somebody needs you, and that somebody is me
under the stars, under the snow
your eyes were closed
you were playing with the buttons on your coat
in the back of that car
in moonland, under the stars
in moonland, and I followed that car
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05:05 pm - Project Euler, Problem 8
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=8
Find the greatest product of five consecutive digits in the 1000-digit number.
73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934
96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843
85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511
12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557
66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113
62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749
30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866
70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776
65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243
52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397
53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482
83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474
82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881
16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586
17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042
24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408
07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188
84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606
05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725
71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450
I solved this in a somewhat non-elegant manner. I took the 1000-digit number, and broke it up so that only one digit was on any given line, then saved that to a file named "number". This is because I didn't want to go look up how to get FORTRAN to read one digit at a time out of a string or something. Then I read that number in, run through the whole thing multiplying and checking against the previous biggest number. Pretty simple aside from the finger cramps of hitting the left arrow key and enter 999 times.
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04:24 pm - Project Euler, Problem 7
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=7
What is the 10001st Prime number?
To do this problem, I took the prime factorization routine from Problem 3 and added a line in it that counted the number of prime factors for a given number. If that counter was only 1, then the number in question is itself a prime number. So the factorization routine became a prime test routine. Add in a little wrapping to loop up to the 10001st prime number, and we're set.
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I think the execution time was fairly long, but I freely admit my code is less of an optimal method and more of a "Well, it works..." one.
[efeger@zanzibar problem_007]$ time ./a.out > answer
real 0m23.407s 104659
user 0m20.421s 104677
sys 0m0.068s 104681
A better program should be able to do the calculation in about a second or less on my computer.
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January 31st, 2010
January 30th, 2010
January 29th, 2010
07:58 pm - Tropico 3
Man, I wanted to check Tropico 3 out like since the day it first came out. I didn't want to pay 40 bucks. But then today Steam put it on sale for 14 bucks today. I couldn't pass it up. They also have both Freedom Force games, and all 5 X-COM games on sale for 2 bucks a bundle.
I'll report back later if I like Tropico 3 or if I hate it.
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January 28th, 2010
04:20 pm - Project Euler, Problem 6
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=6
Find the difference between the sum of the squares of the first one hundred natural numbers and the square of the sum.
This is easy. I could compute it by hand if I wanted, but this is exactly the sort of problem which FORTRAN is made for. See the code I ran behind the cut:
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One note is that Project Euler didn't like the minus sign in front of the number, so throw it away. Alternately just reverse the order of the subtraction in the write statement. Piece of cake.
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