A little gem that gipsieee pointed me to earlier this afternoon.

Don't Wake The ProgrammerI never thought of programming like this before, but after thinking about it, and about how it works for me, holy crap he's exactly right! No wonder I get so irritable when I'm interrupted abruptly--or why I can handle little interruptions reasonably well, but as ( Read more... )

This didn't actually happen to me at the time, but it would have been incredibly apropos of my mental soundtrack to be playing Weird Al's "Everything You Know Is Wrong" while I was trying to figure out why my Elevator Simulation Project (the last one for my C++ class) wasn't working:

Everything you know is wrong ( Read more... )

Would you see anything interesting if you were to do signal analysis on the prime numbers ( Read more... )

I have traveled the Woods. I gained entrance with a single coin. One side of the coin was Faith, the other was Frustration. I wandered down several dead-ends. I thrashed through thorny thickets. They tore my trousers, and left my ego bleeding. Many times I found myself at Despair's abode, in the deep shadows surrounded by dank and rotting ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God!

I spent far more time than may have been prudent playing with electronics last night ( Read more... )

I was worried that my Software Engineering class this semester would be analogous to my undergrad Economics for Engineers class, but now I think it has the potential to rank as one of my favorite classes (though I maintain that it also, as a topic, has great potential for being analogous to my Econ class; the instructor and the other students seem ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday I ended up making a trip up to Baynesville Electronics in Towson (northern edge of Baltimore). It was awesome ^_^ I'm not sure quite yet whether I'll be going back there for parts often, but it seems fairly likely. On the one hand it seems like online sites are quite a bit cheaper, but on the other hand I have not actually ( Read more... )

Geekgasm in 3...2...http://www.baynesvilleelectronics.com/index2.ivnu

Fantastic opportunity--I promise, if you are able to complete this job, it will take your career to new heights: http://www.getacoder.com/projects/bug_finder_92913.htmlRead more... )