Hey everyone.... um, tomorrow's gonna be a busy day for me. I happen to have a big final in math tomorrow, and also a job interview. I would like to ask for your prayers for strength, courage, and that i may be able to but all my hope and trust in God that He is in control of both the outcome of my exam and also the interview. May His will be done in what ever happens.
Thanks
Drew
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Rant of Internet
There it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information Superhighway." The don't know JACK about the Net. It's NOTHING like a Superhighway. That's a BAD metaphor.
Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran the OTHER direction. Suppose the HIGHWAYS were like the NET.
All right!
A highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. most with potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whisltes. 500 member VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection. NO SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws. Some lanes would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant vehicle a CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on your car phone.
AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing DEAD WOMBATS and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn NITROGLYCERIN and IDLE at 120.
No license tags. World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES. Bumper-mounted MACHINE GUNS. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks with ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down the Traffic Watch helicopter. A little kid on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled with HYDROCHLORIC ACID.
Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
source: http://spiffy.ci.uiuc.edu/~kline/Stuff/internet-rant.html @ March 24, 12:26
Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran the OTHER direction. Suppose the HIGHWAYS were like the NET.
All right!
A highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. most with potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whisltes. 500 member VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection. NO SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws. Some lanes would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant vehicle a CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on your car phone.
AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing DEAD WOMBATS and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn NITROGLYCERIN and IDLE at 120.
No license tags. World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES. Bumper-mounted MACHINE GUNS. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks with ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down the Traffic Watch helicopter. A little kid on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled with HYDROCHLORIC ACID.
Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
source: http://spiffy.ci.uiuc.edu/~kline/Stuff/internet-rant.html @ March 24, 12:26
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
So... server's up!!!
I hope.
There is a little bit of a website there, check it out at adh88ca.hopto.org. and if you get errors or anything leave me a comment or something.
and also to note, don't expect to see any updates on it too soon either, do to my own personal time restraints as it is quite low on the priority list...
I hope.
There is a little bit of a website there, check it out at adh88ca.hopto.org. and if you get errors or anything leave me a comment or something.
and also to note, don't expect to see any updates on it too soon either, do to my own personal time restraints as it is quite low on the priority list...
Monday, March 16, 2009
projects...
Well, as of late i've started a few small projects to fill in some of that extra time that i don't have. They are as follows:
-I've gotten my hands on an older computer, Pentium4, 1Gb of Ram, 2 160Gb harddrives, that i am working on making my own little personal server to back up files, and such stuff as a server is used for making all my data accesible anywheres where the internet is accessible... I am using Ubuntu 8.10 server edition to do so, and its all in command line so its fun to learn.
-I found some really cheap Atmega8-16PU on ebay that i bought. these are small 8kb microcontrollers that i can program using the computer. At the moment i am designing an interface so that i can use the serial port on a computer to connect with the AVR(microcontroller), and then use them for some interesting small projects of which i haven't decided yet. Seeing i'm a big fan of open sourcing, i will be uploading schematics, source code, pictures, and such when it comes available.
so yeah other then that, i'm spending many hours in a week doing lab preps, which consist of alot of programming in C and assembly... the C stuff is fine but the assembly is torture because it is so anti-intuitive... but i'm making it through quite well in these courses, and the other classes are just lots and lots of math, and algebra, and some calculus, some circuit analysis and design... so yeah lots of fun...
well enjoy...
-I've gotten my hands on an older computer, Pentium4, 1Gb of Ram, 2 160Gb harddrives, that i am working on making my own little personal server to back up files, and such stuff as a server is used for making all my data accesible anywheres where the internet is accessible... I am using Ubuntu 8.10 server edition to do so, and its all in command line so its fun to learn.
-I found some really cheap Atmega8-16PU on ebay that i bought. these are small 8kb microcontrollers that i can program using the computer. At the moment i am designing an interface so that i can use the serial port on a computer to connect with the AVR(microcontroller), and then use them for some interesting small projects of which i haven't decided yet. Seeing i'm a big fan of open sourcing, i will be uploading schematics, source code, pictures, and such when it comes available.
so yeah other then that, i'm spending many hours in a week doing lab preps, which consist of alot of programming in C and assembly... the C stuff is fine but the assembly is torture because it is so anti-intuitive... but i'm making it through quite well in these courses, and the other classes are just lots and lots of math, and algebra, and some calculus, some circuit analysis and design... so yeah lots of fun...
well enjoy...
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Haven't you noticed??
"Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?’ In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even ‘lame’ is kind of lame. Saying ‘You’re lame’ is like saying ‘You walk with a limp.’ Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he’s done all right for himself."
— John Green
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