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tweets for the week 2010-10-29

by zach @ . October 29, 2010 . 3:59AM

• Left my iPhone under Jenny's car for a couple hours last night. Otterbox took the hit without complaint. #
• Things I am not good at: complier design (specifically, choosing data structures and encapsulation) and remembering names of songs. #
• I'm in the 15% of the math class that showed up today. #goodluckteachingafterthemidterm #
• I just paid .29 USD to try out my new square card reader. Worked great! #
• wrong tshirt: http://www.outofprintclothing.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=b-1016 #
• This is my tweet number 3333. #
• Methinks a visit to the casino is in order before too long. #
• This just in: I would like a banana cream pie. #
• Phillies season comes to this. #
• Whelp, I'm going to miss baseball. #
• tell me that this wouldn't be awesome to play Baldur's Gate (or BG: II) with: http://bit.ly/9YFUrD #
• Made a presentation soup to nuts in two hours. Time to watch the Eagles, which I care about more now for strange reason. #
• This sub $100 phone is cooler than most http://bit.ly/ajNYR9 #
• I'm in the sad position of rooting for the Cowboys tonight. #nfceastpolitics #
• Show and tell is over. Time to get my math on (right after this whopper break). #
• Fought off my math midterm with a C. That is the first math midterm I've passed since 2005. #
• Thing I dislike: writing java graphics. Thing I like: drinking while coding. Thing I dislike: trying to figure out code wrote whilst drunk. #
• This alarmism over Apple's Mac App Store is too much: if you had as many credit cards on file, you'd sell whatever you could to leverage it. #
• @GarnettLee if anything else happens to the Cowboys, I may start feeling bad for them (Eagles fan) #
• Vlc for iPhone fills a hole in my idevice that was gaping. #
• Why I'm a fan of MSFT: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/bill-gates-staring-back-at-you-from-outlook-2010.ars #
• Notice: if you ever need to say "At least I" in order to fend someone off, you are ill-fending. #
• Noooooooooo http://i.engadget.com/2010/10/26/idos-emulator-hits-the-app-store-gets-pulled-in-record-time/ #
• @beatdonna as crappy as it is as an artist you def are doing that whole "instilling emotions in others" thing. Only prob is ppl are scary. #
• Dude, make it so: http://bit.ly/ctVtiF #
• Make this so since you are making it so anyways: http://bit.ly/a6nKKg #
• "trees have a lot of logs" yes, that is true. Average depth of a node in a Binary Search Tree is O(log N) and log is big and heavy and wood. #
• Wow, more ethnic slurs than your "cool" uncle: http://youtu.be/J1cM1x_LVXo #
• Drill, baby, drill, somewhere else: http://bit.ly/b54Q3B ANWR = 10%(ANWR) #
• I can't learn this stuff because of MY MASSIVE HUNGER is in my way. #
• There's enough 7-10" android and windows tablets coming out to make a barely-working house. #
• You europeans and your Spotify. I have Square and unlike Spotify, I get money with Square. #bestregionlockedstartup #
• Did my assembler lab a full 37 hours before it was due. Guess I outta fiddle with this broken java one. #
• Long day tomorrow: meeting, class, meeting, class, lab, workshop. #
• oh shizz check these shoes: http://amzn.to/bvYdeG looks like i got shoe 2011 picked out #
• The whole earth's called for. We know all the borders of the planet. How can "god" be on everyone's side in such a zero-sum place? #
• PC Gaming : Console Gaming :: Podcasting : AM Talk Radio – if you want the newest ideas, ye olde PC is where to be http://bit.ly/a4UnFu #
• my christmas wish is for one of these: http://bit.ly/dqrnCl with matching EGA monitor. I already have a keyboard! #
• Too sweet, I'd love to have this happen to me: http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/cease-and-desist.html #

I’ve bought a lot of FF games in the past, this is the current count.

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . October 23, 2010 . 5:12PM

I’d save a lot of money if our friends at Square-Enix would stop re-releasing games over and over.

tweets for the week 2010-10-22

by zach @ . October 22, 2010 . 3:59AM

• Given enough nodes in a telephone game, across continents, and 4-5 languages even a terrific caterer can be the son of god. #
• Damn you whopper line I have class #
• I'm renaming this server butthole when I finally get it on the LAN. #
• yo dog I heard fable 2 was free on XBLA/XBl;whatevertheyrecallingthewholegamesthing http://bit.ly/aSO7Ed #
• Finished reading In the Arms of Morpheus: the tragic history of Laudanum Morphine and Patent Medicines. Interesting and very well made. #
• Morris Muffintop just rolled a 6 on his hide check (pray to Mask for him) #dnd #
• Morris survives the Gnolls and bad rolling just to get chewed on by a worg #dnd #
• Morris survives the worg and proceeds to be ghoul diseased and paralyzed. But he lives on to see level four. #
• Good feeling: meeting I forgot about and have no time for – cancelled by someone else. #
• Draper's pulled a Sterling. #
• I'm all command line ninjaing trying to get this server online: problem was that I forgot this thing has THREE NICs not two. #wrongholefool #
• @beatonna you were following me because you thought my timely references to the Ice Cube classic Friday was in your wheelhouse #
• I want to keep everything I own in $6 home depot toolboxes as they are perfect for everything but tools. #
• im installing xcode, runnign keynote, photoshop and 3 browser windows while virtually running windows XP. #mylaptopisnotthatold #
• Okay, I'm getting ready to want to move to Fishtown. #
• Compiler coding and most likely doing it wrong. #
• @xxdesmus did you get your CS quizzes back today, too? #
• Real talk for a second: Bear attacks are up 30% in Japan this year. (via NDK) #
• I wish I knew someone who can talk to me about using this for building a klodge-compliler #
• by this, i mean this http://www.daniweb.com/code/showthread.php?t=216569 #
• You know the first amendment is okay with a bronze of OBL spiking the head of george washington which may be worse than a community center. #
• Well, it looks like the $90 Internet-enabled video security system was a success. Time to write up the docs for it and move on. #
• wait, why do I need to install DirectX 9.0 to make this webcam work? #
• I spent 3 hours today getting this whole IDE situation put to bed. Next time I do that, it won't be with a project due. #
• I don't understand funk music's effect on my coding skills, but I get a +5 bonus to hit segfaults. #

tweets for the week 2010-10-15

by zach @ . October 15, 2010 . 3:59AM

• Nothing like some blasted Gershwin first thing (well, second thing) in the morning. #
• I imagine every student who says "I'm lost" in this math class as another raise I'll get for knowing the material. #
• Tigerdirect, columbus did not kill for our sins just so you can blow out some amazing refurbished deals. #
• Almost went three weeks without buying something on Amazon. Considering I've had 64 orders this year, that is quite odd. #
• Smelling the kelbasa getting smoked at Swiacki's while taking out the trash. #gladtobehere #
• This week is shaping up to be a week-long dare to be great moment. #needamontage #
• Official: I like low-level programming more than OOP. #
• Official: I still like more things than low-level programming. #
• @LOldroyd jenny is happy to leave the state most weekends/weeks/times #
• Just watching this week's Mad Men and I gotta tell you, I'm loving it when bad things happen to Pete. #
• @jessicaames wanna talk about it? #
• Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. – Jessica Mitford #
• if you have to involve hashing functions to figure out parking spaces YOU ARE A PRICK #
• FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF ARITHMETIC IS TO ALWAYS BE AWESOME TO ONE ANOTHER SOMETHING SOMETHING PRIMES. #
• Watching Diamonds are Forever and planning a trip to Hong Kong I doubt I'll ever take. #
• Jenny and I are moving to Seattle because I own too much outerwear to live in this climate and I'm too tired staying up so late for woot! #
• Outhousing n. – pooping outside your home. #

Trying out displaying code on WordPress: E-Z Java Lab

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . October 12, 2010 . 7:28PM

I’m working on ways to trick myself to do code more often than my twice-weekly stay-up-late routine by making it more fun. To that end, I figured blogging about code will be helpful to that end. As a Computer Science major, I’m expected to write a ton of code and my antipathy to the process is only eclipsed bt my ability to procrastinate starting. As an example, I’m just posting the first .java files I have laying around. So, here it is:

colortest.java

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;</code>

public class Colortest
extends JFrame
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
new Colortest();	// create Window
}

private Colortest()
{
super ("Colortest");
addWindowListener(          // don't care about this
new WindowAdapter(){    // it only closes the application
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent event)    // when you close
{System.exit(0);}                           // the window
}
);
setContentPane(new ColorPanel()); // the actual drawing pane
pack();                             // organize, size etc.
setVisible(true);                   // show the window to the world !
}
}

colorpanel.java

import java.awt.*;
public class ColorPanel extends javax.swing.JPanel
{
// Fields ------------------------------------------------------------------
private final int numberOfRows    = 32;
private final int numberOfColumns = 32;
private final int rectSize = 16;
private Color[][] colorField; </code>

// Methods -----------------------------------------------------------------
public ColorPanel() {
initColorArray(numberOfRows, numberOfColumns);
setPreferredSize(new Dimension(rectSize*numberOfColumns, rectSize*numberOfRows));
}

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
// get array-size
int rows = colorField.length;			// number of rows
int columns = colorField[0].length;		// number of columns
for (int r=0;r &lt; rows; r++){
for (int c=0;c &lt; columns; c++){
g.setColor(colorField[r]);	// color for next rectangle
int positionX = c * rectSize;	// position
int positionY = r * rectSize;
g.fillRect(positionX, positionY, rectSize, rectSize);
}
}
}

//vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
/*
* initColorArray
* initialize 2 dimensional array 'colorField'
*/
private void initColorArray(int rows, int columns)
{
// A 2 dimensional array is an array of arrays
// hence it could be defined row-wise with different
// column - lengths ! However, the most usual case is a
// rectangular shape, i.e. every column has the same dimension.
// These arrays could  be declared in a less complicated way
// by new arrayname[sizeRow][sizeCol].
// But to make clear, that we really deal with nested arrays we define
// them beyond in a more universal way.

colorField = new Color[rows][];
for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++){
colorField[i] = new Color[columns];	// every column with same size here
	}

	// now define different colors
	for (int r=0; r < rows; r++){
            for (int c = 0; c < columns; c++){
		int red = (int)(255.0 * r / rows);      // compute portions of red
		int green = (int)(255.0 * c / columns);	// and green (max = 255)
		int blue = 0;				// no blue today
		colorField[r]1= new Color(red, green, blue);
}
}
}
//^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
}

Mid 1990′s memories.

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . October 12, 2010 . 7:09PM

Somewhere, there is a picture of me smiling ear to ear with an arm draped over a 13 inch television. on the television, barely visible, is Kefka disintegrating. It was 1995 and I was the happiest sonuvabitch in the world.

I also owned a nice hardcopy copy of Gibbon’s decline and fall and had 2 vintage IBM computers, complete with printer.

I would play Warcraft II for the first time in a few months.

Will I ever be as cool again?

[Work] High Value/Performance Local Storage for Bioinformatic research

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . October 12, 2010 . 6:33PM

I recently gave this presentation in the lab I work in. I was tasked to determine which solutions (locally connected to a very fast server platform) we could use to back up the myriad machines we use for  Bioinformatic research.

Anyhoos, here’s the pdf . Enjoy.

Public Service Announcement

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . October 8, 2010 . 7:50PM

tweets for the week 2010-10-08

by zach @ . October 8, 2010 . 3:59AM

• both of my coding classes have two-week assignments. forcast next week being awesome and the next not being awesome. #
• @cwgabriel real (thing people want to be) have 1920×1200 anyways. #
• “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else. " – Winston Churchill #
• Dear anyone who ever sent me a USPS package that didnt fit in my mailbox: I hate you deeply. #
• @jessicaames when we doin' that? #
• Jenny and I aren't very good at Scott Pilgrim the game but enjoyed it nonetheless. #
• Grown man crying outside the bar. #
• Useful, of you've purchased a 468DX PC this week: http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/indexall.htm #
• Quiz in the first ten minutes of class on Monday morning. I've made half of them. The real quiz is waking up in time and riding SEPTA well. #
• Oh man, I got to read like a big ass pile of books. #nowizardsfoundinpile #
• Etsy: proof that ip laws are poorly understood. #
• oh, dude who just wandered into this computer lab, sat down, realized he was in the wrong room and left: I've been there. Today. #
• by i've been there, i mean this room on the floor below this one and wondered where all my classmates were. #
• I saw the I'm not a witch ad!!! #
• doing my math homework early because @hotdogsladies said something about cookies afterwards. #
• i'm taking classes in x86 assembler, C, and Java and now my math class wants me to use Pascal pseudocode to describe/create algorithms. #
• lol Jesus is making the rounds today: http://bit.ly/assoku #
• Surprise coming for @jdotames! Hehehehehe #
• I'm on such a Pepsi kick lately #sugaraddict #
• if you only knew how much i'll regret not getting you when i had the chance, http://bit.ly/3hKG77 #
• all the websites I run total 466 uniques for the last 30 days. #bigmonth #

Well, not “this” machine.

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . October 3, 2010 . 6:43PM