| Crows of part group mind, again! |
[Oct. 15th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
I'm back. Actually, I got back two days ago, but I forgot to write a post here saying so :)
What I did remember, though, was to ask Guilen to upload a higher resolution version of his picture of the artificial corvids! So, if you want it in 1440x, just go there and select download :)
(And if you have a DA account of your own, write a comment, would ya? There's only one there now, even given the views...) |
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[Oct. 10th, 2008|10:42 am] |
I'll be off for a few days to fix more computer stuff. Hopefully, the hardware error I'm seeing at that computer (random crashes) isn't what I think it is (bad memory), since I just installed the new RAM the last time I was there. Memtest said there was no problem, but it's been wrong in the past. Oh well, we'll see when I get there.
In any case, have fun doing whatever it is you do, and I'll be back :)
*waves waves* |
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[Oct. 8th, 2008|08:22 am] |
The best way to fix a time lag is to just not have it. |
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| Yipe! |
[Sep. 27th, 2008|11:57 am] |
Art overload - have to rest my mind after it's been blown like that!
(And there's a magpie chattering outside.) |
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| Hawks definitely are birds of prey |
[Sep. 23rd, 2008|11:41 pm] |
Whereas pigeons are not.
(Yeah, bird link of the day :) ) |
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| To position, one must have information. |
[Sep. 15th, 2008|02:24 pm] |
Random question: is there any way to make LJ show entry post times in your own time zone, short of getting a dedicated client? Or for that matter, if the only way is by using a dedicated client, which clients support that?
And to keep up the randomness, the subject line reminds me that I should find a name for my "economical action" aesthetic idea, regarding actions that use just enough force - not too little, nor so much that the outcome is obvious and thus the application too brutish and unrefined. I could say "wei wu wei", but I know all too little about what that really is, and so I don't.
Also, I've been planning to say what I'm going to say next for a long time now, but I never got around to doing it. Since I've got nothing else to do right now (except some mail messages, perhaps), I'll go on. If you like cyberpunk, and particularly if you like things similar to System Shock, read Free Radical. It's good. Unlike a recent game that was "not like System Shock, but System Shock", this is "not System Shock, but like System Shock". That's in part because "shoot enemy, oh yeah!" makes for a good game but not a good story.
So, well... I guess this looks a bit like a "tying up the loose threads" entry, which it in a sense is. |
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| And now for something completely different, mk. IV |
[Sep. 5th, 2008|12:55 pm] |
I don't like the mangling of language.
Don't call it "traveling salesperson problem", call it "traveling salesman problem".
Don't call it "blocklist", call it "blacklist".
What's next - "block hole"? You see, it blocks light from escaping!
(Wasn't that different indeed, and quite unexpected given what I've said earlier? Yes. But that's how the E-engine works.) |
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| Birds! |
[Sep. 5th, 2008|01:38 am] |
It's obvious what the blackbird is doing (or wants to do) in the first picture here, but do you get what it's doing in the second? :)
 
If not, well, they are still nice pictures! I think, at least, so comment. |
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| Just to be safe |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|01:54 am] |
Guilen! I wrote some replies to your mail messages, but I had to transmit them in a fairly unorthodox manner, so I'm making this entry to be sure. If you got them, just moo, or caw, or whatever :)
And now it's nearly 2 AM, so I should sleep. |
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[Aug. 28th, 2008|11:28 pm] |
And here's another obscure algorithm problem for those who are interested.
( Read more... )
Oh, and Kistaro, since you'll probably be reading this -- could you send me the new times by mail? |
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| Of coding and pictures |
[Aug. 21st, 2008|05:32 pm] |
Here's a hint: when you purposefully limit your program, don't make it call a function that returns 0 when you're not allowed extended functionality and nonzero otherwise. One "OR AX, FF, RETN" later and woot.
Or just do it, to make things more easy for disassemblers.
Anyway.
After that little bit of fun, and Just One More Turn of Civ, and sleep and such, I was looking through DA when I found some nice pictures. They're obviously not mine, but I link to them nevertheless, since they're.. well, nice!
Aww, isn't that cute?
A little water dragon.
And a very detailed, just slightly larger ordinary dragon!
Element seal with another drake. |
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| Back! |
[Aug. 15th, 2008|04:11 pm] |
And now I'm back again. In general, the trip was quite nice, although I discovered unfortunate things regarding my endurance, or rather, the lack thereof, and of having to have things be "just right". But I'll try to turn even those negative things into something from which I can gain knowledge, so that they aren't complete losses.
Among the good things: seeing and feeding swans (and cygnets!), and also seeing, I think, terns (a first for me in that case); not having to bother at all with computers, the internet, or my current Big Project; and talking to family members that aren't usually close by.. even younglings.
Some may now say "no computers? Younglings? and the Dw likes it?", but apparently, I do :) Those are very particular younglings, though; there are two I like better than the other two (to different siblings), and the better-liked two were on the trip. That should help reconcile what I'm writing with what I've written earlier about younglings.
At this point I can feel that I'm stretching English to its breaking point so that I can tell something about what's happened without being too specific (about who the relatives are, and so on). If I were to say anything about the worse things, I would have to be even more obscure, and that would be a distortion of the language, extremely hard to follow, and wrong.
Thus, let me just say this: the days were good, but the nights less so. Partly because of conditions not being "just right" as I said before (too springy beds and the likes), and also from family related things. After being thoroughly tired after the few first days, I slept here (at home) the following (less one) nights in order not to risk anything. The last one, yesterday, I figured out a working arrangement (more or less), but by then it was almost over anyway.
But oh well; I got quite a number of pictures - mostly of the birds in question - and perhaps I'll show some of them here, later :) |
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[Aug. 10th, 2008|02:36 pm] |
*waves* Soon I'll be off on a trip, and I won't be back for a week. The place I'm going to has no internet or computers, which is part of the point, so I can't write any journal entries while I'm there. Though I've been writing more scarcely now, I thought I should tell you all.
And if anything interesting or unusual happens, or you just want to say moo, meep, or chirp, write a reply to this entry. Or ask the other technical (usually?) blue dragon about the "set and rules" consistency problem (with rules being pairs of subsets and integers), if that's what you like.
I can feel that I'm trying to write quickly so that I'll have time left over to wrap up what I have to do here before I have to go. Lhexa suggested that it's possible to see, just by how I write, that I'm trying to do so (write quickly) as well.
But quickly or not, I'll see you all later; be well! |
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| Others' pictures! |
[Aug. 5th, 2008|09:11 pm] |
While browsing, I found this picture on DA, of a ship now planet-bound.
While a ship crashed may no longer fly, it can serve a parallel purpose: as it was the home of its inhabitants in space, so will it be on the ground. |
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[Jul. 26th, 2008|04:48 pm] |
Oh, and I know I'm not supposed to write about these things[1], here goes.. If you like challenging puzzles, time travel, and text adventures/interactive fiction, go and play "All Things Devours". It kept me up last night because I had to solve it :) Be prepared to take notes and restart your game a number of times, but it's still fun, especially when you figure it out!
Some vague hints (go here to decrypt, but play first):
[contraption] Gel gur znk frggvat bs sbhe uhaqerq.
[contraption] Gel gur znk frggvat bs sbhe uhaqerq. Jung rknpgyl unccrarq? Purpx lbhe fgnghf yvar.
[things] Guvax sbhegu qvzrafvbanyyl!
[things] Guvax sbhegu qvzrafvbanyyl! Bar pna rnfvyl orpbzr gjb.
[1] since they could, by extension fall within "technical", being so connected to logic. Instead I should've said something like "I've been playing racing games the last few weeks, and woot is it fun!", which is also true. |
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[Jul. 16th, 2008|09:25 am] |
Ow, my head. I slept as usual this night but I still feel as I haven't at all. Perhaps it's because of chaotic dreams, or who knows?
What I do know is that I've been far too slow with my posts here. Programming can be very tempting; as I've told others, it lets you do anything on your computer as long as you have the knowledge so you know what to do and the endurance to pull it off. The only thing you have to do in order to get large projects done by your own is forget everything else you're doing... so here we are.
I hope you still recognize me, though -- haven't forgotten completely who I am :)
*winghugs all of you* |
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[Jun. 29th, 2008|01:22 pm] |
Here's another abstract computery/algorithmy problem:
( Read more... ) |
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[Jun. 11th, 2008|09:40 am] |
It's strange what your brain figures out while sleeping. In my case, I just found out a strategy that could limit so-called piracy of some kinds of software rather effectively.
( Read more... )
[1] Or a trusted computing module, but those are evil. You may say that this scheme isn't very noble either (denying access to those that don't have the dongle), but while it lives in Limbo, the TCM resides in one of the bolgia. |
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| Now for something cryptic, or referencing a past post. |
[Jun. 2nd, 2008|01:50 pm] |
9.9999% uptime! |
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