I just bought a 4Gb microSD card with adapter for use with my Wii, and I am sitting here awestruck that inside this tiny chip, which, including the plastic casing that probably makes up about 50% of its volume, is smaller than a US Dime, sit literally BILLIONS of tiny electronic registers which are all precisely accessible and perfectly accurate.

Holy fucking balls.

In Unrelated News: I used IE8 to compose this post, and I am dumbstruck that there is NO FUCKING UNDO FUNCTION. I accidentally selected the whole post and deleted it (by hitting space instead of ctrl+c, the latter and more intelligent of which I do at the end of long posts such as this to avoid just this sort of problem), and had to rewrite the entire thing from scratch. Moreover, using the text select cursor on the end of a line places the bar at the first character of the next line, requiring me to PRECISION-SELECT the single pixel space at the end of the line in order to place the cursor where I want it, which is also retarded. Thank god I'm going back to FireFox in a second.

QOTD: "LaBoeuf projects a pathetic, wall-eyed dorkhood, when he's not babbling like a tumor removed from Woody Allen's prostate that somehow achieved sentience."

So I noticed ABC has this new series called "The Goode Family", which I could have sworn was "The Greene Family" in the previews, but in any case, it looked like a left-wing "King of the Hill", which is a a pretty good show, so I thought I'd check it out.

After five minutes, I can already tell it's the most offensive show on TV. Yes, more than Family Guy. It's less a left-wing "King of the Hill", and more of a covert "Beavis and Butthead", all of which were apparently also created by the same guy...

It's funny in much the same way drunk college roommates are funny: not because it's intelligent, or creative, or even purposefully comedic, but just because it's so painfully self-true in its own stupidity.

In Other News: When my roommates moved out yesterday, we reinstalled the smoke detectors, which have been beeping in rounds ever since. I knew there was a legitimate reason we removed them. I hardly slept at all last night.

Stephen Colbert on gay marriage: "Why wouldn't I just go get gay married? Okay? Hanging out with guys is great! If I could make that legal..."

Apparently Battle.net now has digital downloads of StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II (and all related expansions), which one can link from their original CD-Keys. This makes me very happy.

A little wisdom from POPsickle Comic:

Life is fair.

It treats everyone equally.

You get exactly what you deserve.

You got in for free.

So stop complaining.

Asshole.

Also: "If God wanted information transferred on the quantum level, then why would He originally have used parchement?"

I just got back from campus, turning in a transfer authorization form for the last class credit I need for my degree. On the way back I swung by the campus center and picked up the chance-of-rain indoor commencement ceremony tickets, and bought my cap, gown, and tassel.

I can sleep now.
Mmmmmmm...

I can do this.
Finishing my MQP in two more days, that is.
The staying up any later... notsomuch. It's been 42 hours now, and I've been practically asleep with my eyes open since about midnight.

I still want to strangle whomever it was that decided to require Seniors turn in projects a WHOLE FUCKING MONTH before everyone else. In the MIDDLE OF FINALS.
Sleepyrage.... zzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZ*hic*

Oh yeah, and playing with WinWord's math editor is fun. Much more fun than staring at the screen while LaTeX does NOTHING for me.

So I was looking at postage pricing today, and I discovered that:

It would cost more for me to mail my possessions back to CA (at the cheapest price, which would take weeks, with no guaranteed arrival date, insurance, etc.) than it would for me to package them in the shape of people, give them all fake IDs, and buy that many extra plane tickets (assuring they'd arrive the same time I would).

WTF, world?

So it turns out that the deadline for project submissions for degree candidates is not the same as the standard project submission deadlines... in fact, instead of the two and a half weeks I expected I would have to write my MQP, I have ... oh, FOUR DAYS.

If anyone needs me, I'll be HOPPED UP ON HIGH DOSES OF SPEED.

The use of subjective pronouns as the object of prepositions, e.g. "Between he and I, ...", especially when used by characters in film and television in an effort to portray them as more intelligent, better educated, or sophisticated.

This occurs WAY TOO OFTEN.

(pic related: I'm watching the new episode now and IT JUST HAPPENED. WHO THE FUCK WRITES THESE SHOWS AND WHY DO THEY NOT HAVE EDITORS FOR CRAP LIKE THIS?!)

I've only seen first 20 minutes and already I'm ashamed that the film has already grossed nearly double the box office sales of Serenity. I never would have thought that I'd be saying this, but: how did The Rock ever sink so deep?

If you ever even remotely enjoyed the childhood classic, Escape to Witch Mountain, stay far the fuck away from this. Hell, stay far the fuck away from it if you ever even remotely enjoyed any good drama with quality exposition and believable characters, because so far, this film is just about as far as you can get from those.

The Prestige is much better than sleep.

This is so much cooler than a flashlight.


The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

My 6 hour flight turned into 12 hours cramped in the shitty airplane seats.
It was made bearable by having my sister next to me: we used each other as pillows and actually got some sleep.

I am in San Jose now and ripe for the picking. I leave on the 4th for Hawaii and won't be back in town before graduation, so don't delay : p

Wheeeeeeeeeeee.

Yeah, a lot of stuff has happened and I haven't kept LJ in the loop. w/e.

The Bad News: The TMBG show was at the same time as the annual Worcester consortium holiday concert at Mechanics Hall.
The Good News: The Worcester consortium consists of about six schools. With that many choirs, maybe they wouldn't miss one or two singers.
The Bad News: There was an ice storm a couple days before the show and much of the Worcester area was left without power or heat.
The Good News: WPI survived with full power (though one section of the campus had to wait a couple hours for backup generators).
The Bad News: The other schools were not so lucky. WPI's was the only choir able to perform in full at the concert.
The Good News: The concert went quickly.
The Bad News: The bus back from Mechanics Hall arrived back at WPI just after TMBG finished their encore.
The Good News: TMBG got cheered back on stage for TWO MORE ENCORES.

Long story short, TMBG's final song was Fingertips, which I didn't even know was performed live. It was awesome.

The rest of the past week in short: I re-mathed a deathbot AI, which pulled second place (out of 10) in the tournament for IMGD 400x, I spent 5-ish hours on a take-home-test which I had expected to take about 1 hour like the previous two from the same class, I discovered Minotaur China Shop last night (this morning) and played it for about 3 hours straight where I should have been sleeping, and I've got two finals tomorrow.

Good night, LJ.

TMBG is coming to WPI next week.

I think the Audiophiles should re-learn Exquisite Dead Guy and ask if we can open for them : p