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Ok, I haven't really posted in a while. I'll be trying to get to it tommorow when I have a bit of time. For a partial brief outline of news to come:

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• Movie: The Core
• Becoming a Gentoo Developer
• Computer Hardware
• TekNights ShazBOT v3.0 Games Tournament
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Your alter poet is Thomas Stearns Eliot. For you,
life rocks pretty hard!


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(If you weren't a trapper, you'd be a floating eye.)


I personally think i'm more of an Umber Hulk:

The Psychic Flash Movie debunked, by robbat2:

Those around the net a lot have undoubtedly seen this little flash animation http://www.flashmindreader.co.uk/, which purports to read your mind and show you the symbol that the number you came up with links to.

So many people have been sending it to me lately, that is has seriously pissed me off because it's just some stupid tricks involved.

The mathematics behind it are incredibly juvenille. Come on people, I learnt this in grade 3. Does nobody else know any of the tricks to check divisiblity in the basic multiplication tables ?

The animation has 5 columns numbered decreasing vertically, as:

99	79	59	39	19
98	78	58	38	18
97	77	57	37	17
96	76	56	36	16
95	75	55	35	15
94	74	54	34	14
93	73	53	33	13
92	72	52	32	12
91	71	51	31	11
90	70	50	30	10
89	69	49	29	9
88	68	48	28	8
87	67	47	27	7
86	66	46	26	6
85	65	45	25	5
84	64	44	24	4
83	63	43	23	3
82	62	42	22	2
81	61	41	21	1
80	60	40	20	0

To illustrate this simply, when you subtract the sum of digits from each of the numbers in the table, it leaves you with a multiple of 9, like so:

81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
81	63	45	27	9
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0
72	54	36	18	0

Now go back and look at any reload of the applet. All the multiples of 9 that turn up above 'conveniently' (except 0, see the note in the next paragraph about it) have the same symbol. A little too convenient don't you think?

It seems the majority of copies of the applet out there contain a bug. The digit 0 should have the same symbol next to it as the multiples of 9 up to 82, but it doesn't in many cases. I believe the programmer used a simple multiple check that fails on 0 and so doesn't put in the correct symbol there.

Would people PLEASE stop sending this stupid thing to me now???

heading in to TechBC SFU@Surrey now.

Hmm, my machine is almost up and running now. Just a pile of applications to install left.
But I'll leave that for now after I have one or two things and head to school instead.

got up around 8.15am
went to school
had our signals lab
the instructor ranted a bit on something, and for the third class now, the rant has been indirectly aimed against me
on the plus side, he removed a lot of questions we had to do
before: Prelab #1-#5, Questions #1-8, 12-17
after: before: Prelab #1-#5, Questions #1-4

worked on that after the class for a bit
then i was on my way out
when gord said my bag was dripping
i put it down carefully
since i picked it up from my desk 30 seconds before, a powerade bottle POPPED and messed all over the inside of my bag
stopped for an hour to clear stuff out, junked what wasn't recoverable
cleaned a few things, like my calc, palm, wallet, camera, cellphone
wrap everything else in plastic
went to the luggage store and bought a cheap backpack ($10+tax)
put all stuff in backpack
leave old backpack in plastic bag on desk

went to netlink computers, had to wait 30 min to get served due to long lineups
got my motherboard + replacment mouse for my mother
headed home

sitting in my graphics class atm.
Kay is rambling on about perspgctive transforms

i'm going to play bejeweled :-p

Anybody with a few moments to spare, and not minding critiquing work, take a look at this:
http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/~robbat2/intd214/5.html

Tell me what you think, suggeestions for changes/additions/replacements/removals etc. Telling me that I suck is OK as well, as long as you do it in a constructive way!

You are the Marquis Da Sade. Even stripped of
exaggerations, Your real life was as dramatic
and as tragic as a cautionary tale. Born to an
ancient and noble house, you were married
(against your wishes) to a middle-class heiress
for money, caused scandals with prostitutes and
with your sister-in-law, thus enraging your
mother-in-law, who had you imprisoned under a
lettre de cachet for 14 years until the
Revolution freed you. Amphibian, protean,
charming, you became a Revolutionary,
miraculously escaping the guillotine during the
Terror, only to be arrested later for
publishing your erotic novels. You spent your
final 12 years in the insane asylum at
Charenton, where you caused another scandal by
directing plays using inmates and professional
actors. You died there in 1814, virtually in
the arms of your teenage mistress.
You are a revolutionary deviant. I applaud you.


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