Hoody Hoo

Interesting Weekend. MOT was very excellent, and I may have perhaps gotten much more drunk than anyone should ever be, and may have said things that were probably best left unsaid (although were sometimes apparently hilarious). I do not recall much of the evening, so one would probably have to ask someone who was more aware of their surroundings than I how it was, but I at least had fun.

Saturday was spent with my sister, and then out with Cas, Jon, and Alex downtown. Mirrormask is quite an interesting movie. It’s very reminiscent of The Neverending Story, except with crazy amazing visuals

I’m not actually as impressed with the Rex as I thought I would be. It’s basically London pub with a guy playing a cello. It was decent, I mean, I like London Pub, but even so. I guess I shouldn’t expect a huge classy affair on Queen.

Yesterday was mostly spent burning time, and carving a pumpkin (with a rotozip, you can take your knives and shove them, we’re cooking with power over here). My interview with a certain spy organization is on wed, and I’m going to see Cas for assorted antics on thu. Oh, and Nov. 19th I’m going curling, sweet. Back to writing my Work Term Report. Adios.

Productivity

I have a feeling today is not going to be a highly productive one...


*later that day*

I was right.

I spent all day figuring out how to write a function to calculate the sub-coordinates for a 4 point natural cubic spline (A curve, wiki it if you don't know what the hell i'm talking about). I needed this to interpolate values in between coordinates so that I could find a true minimum for my data. Unfortunately, as I would have known had I been paying attention, since all my data points are evenly spaced, the minimum on the spline is.... the minimum data point.

Which means I spent all afternoon writing a function in which I gave it data and told it which one was the minimum, and it spends some time thinking, and then replies that the minimum is the minimum.

Fuck you Splines.


Oh, and if anyone knows a way of solving a non-linear system of four equations in four unknowns (Stochastic methods are fine), I would very much like to hear from you.

When did my job turn into math? I had to do Calculus today!! Calculus!

Great

I got asked at work by my boss to figure out what the fastest way to solve a system of 4 non-linear equations in code would be. Appearantly "I did a math course recently in numeric methods".

I guess he didn't get the memo. =o)
Anyone else doing real math at work?

My project is going along nicely. I made up an algorithm, and it works, but it's not as good as one of the ones we already have (but better than a couple of them). Try again tomorrow I guess. The joys of image processing.

Another week gone

Work has been going really well. I finished my tool, and I can feel this turning into a solid work term report. I have two variations on my algorithm for the thing i'm working on, and i have to implement two different ways, and come up with another way of doing it on my own. It's neat to write an algorithm, and then plug the sensor into it, and actually have it figure out how far away something is, and working properly. Anyway, suffice it to say that while I don't talk about work that often, it's partly because there's only so much I can say, and partly because I think it would bore the hell out of most people, but I think it's rather exciting.

I spent most of tonight going to grocery stores with Jon and Randeep and buying 2L Coke bottle/Mentos pairs. I heard about this from a guy at work, and had to try it out. If you want an explanation of how it works, you come talk to me. Basically you dump as many mentos as you can into the bottle, and coke comes shooting out the top. We got a 10 foot gyeser a couple of times. Quite a good evening.

Tomorrow is Hooking up the water in the fridge day, and then going downtown with Todd and RA, depending on how soon I finish the fridge, I may go with them to either Come as you are, or the sex show which I hear is on this weekend. I've always wanted to go to that, i'm sure it's very interesting the stuff they have going there, but for some reason never went. That trend may continue this year, we'll see. After that we're going out for dinner with RAs Dad and getting him nicely trashed. That guy is a lot of fun to party with. =o)

Sunday no plans yet, so it may just turn into a work on PCDEP day, which needs to happen this week if not sunday. Or maybe try to find costume stuff for hallowe'en.

MOT is next friday, I'm leaving work early, anyone who's in TO and needs a ride to Waterloo for that (or would like to come), let me know before then.

Finally, if anyone has a penchant to buy a nice watch, Seiko-Epson (That'd be the company I work for) is offering me 50% off any seiko watch, but I need to order before Nov 2. So if you want a watch, let me know. You can see them here. Have a good weekend all.

If Lord of the Rings was World of Warcraft

You're probably only going to think this is funny if you've played WoW, but if you have, it's fucking hilarious.

Once upon a Sunday

11 deg C is the perfect temperature. It's blustery outside, the leaves are Burnt Sienna and Umber and Flaming Red. They flutter about in the breeze. Jackets are worn, and scarves are wrapped around the neck, and it smells of pumpkins and turkeys and magic. Animals and plants are getting ready to have a long, long nap. And it makes me smile.

Matt Good show was awesome. I'm without sunglasses for a week due to my own scatterbrainedness, and things are coasting along just fine for me.

Welcome to the All Angus Weekend.

So in lieu of anyone telling me what game to buy, I spent 45 minutes in EB perusing. Not shoes or shirts for me fellows. Video games.

The choice was obvious.

So this weekend is going to be spent in Angus Time (with the exception of tomorrow night, which is Angus/Kate Time @ Matt Good). I'll be consuming large quantities of diet cola, sitting on my couch, playing Morrowind 3: The Elder Scrolls. Game of the year edition (i.e. with both expansion packs). I've heard nothing but good about this game, so I imagine i'm about to have a really good time.

I'm planning to see Serenity on Sunday (After playing a lot of MW3). So far nobody has offered to come with me, and since i'm the only one I know who's actually seen the show, it might stay that way. Beyond that, maybe my dad will want to go. If anyone, by some wild chance actually wants to see it, you're welcome to join me sunday night.

Oh. And my fridge exploded. So probably i'll be getting a new one of those. Better have an icemaker in it.


That's the deal. The total deal.

New Game

Alright, I need a new video game. Any recommendations?
Any System except Gamecube.

Have to hand it to apple

They do know how to make a sexy UI. iPod Video is going to sell like crack in harlem.
The new G5 is also sexy. Too bad it still doesn't run any decent software, is expensive, and is useless for programming.. Bitches! Muhahaha.

Friday Night

Jon Stewart was hiliarious. Half way through the show he started asking people it was time to start drinking yet, and got the staff to bring him out a beer. Nice.

The rest of the day was also quite awesome, Had a meeting this morning, got paid and am now quite square with all my creditors. Additionally, hanging out with Cas and going for dinner, also quite good. I am now covered in glitter which seem to have teleported onto me through the air. And now to sleep, perchance to dream.

Goodnight Moon.

Google Declares war on Microsoft

Google and Sun Microsystems (The guys that make Java) have been talking for the past few days, and have just announced they're collaborating on a free, internet based Office suite based on Open Office (one of sun's products).

Since MS Office is where Microsoft makes all they're money, this is basically full scale war.

I can just hear it now... We will fight them on the beaches...