2006.02.28 11:01:46 EST Principle of Least Dog Action An article in ScienceNews reports that a mathematician at Hope College observed a curious phenomenon: his dog seems to know calculus. Tim Pennings (is/was) the chair of the math department at Hope Col
2006.02.28 00:12:24 EST Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Through fifteen winters, springs fourteen, Their love this orange cat had glean-- Deserved we all agree. For he's not just a pretty boy: With brains and brawls he oft brought joy, Or preys caught from
2006.02.27 19:08:17 EST French exam I met with Professor Nelson today to take the French language exam. He asked me to bring with me a book or a paper that I would like to use, so I brought Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat's Distributions, Th&eacu
2006.02.25 19:41:08 EST Acroread slow start-up Argh. The problem with running closed-source software. Adobe's Acrobat Reader for linux, version acroread-7.0.5 and higher has a nasty problem (at least on Gentoo) with an extremely long start time (o
2006.02.25 15:52:50 EST Einstein sayeth Now that 2005 (the centennial of Einstein's miraculous year) is over, we can go back to our normal irreverence for big Einie. Hetemeel.com has a cute little script that lets you put words under Einste
2006.02.22 08:09:45 EST Airport blues; rant on pc-tude Just drove mom to Newark Airport. Two things were learnt. The first: computer systems are bloody stupid. It seems that some time between last summer and the winter past, United Airlines, among others,
2006.02.16 17:57:52 EST More on Gaming with WINE Hum... funny thing: apparently WINE looks for the joystick device at /dev/js0 instead of /dev/input/js0, which was why it couldn't see my USB joystick. To get WINE working with a joystick is, apparent
2006.02.12 19:16:51 EST Journal: NAQT SCT + Blizzard Quite a blustery day. The Princeton area has over a foot (home has more like 15-18 inches). EWR just reopened a bit earlier. JFK and LaGuardia are still closed. New record snow fall in central park (2
2006.02.08 03:27:46 EST WINE + XvT ....... failed This is curious. Wine 0.9.{5,6,7} would compiles with gcc 3.4.5 but would always segfault on startup. But if I switch back down to gcc 3.3.5 to compile, it seems that the program would run fine. Now a
2006.02.07 11:15:39 EST I blame it on the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry from Taiwan What if, on the SAT, you see the following question? 1. LOL :: :-D == a) OMG :: :-O b) ROFLMAO :: :-( c) WTF :: :-P d) TTYL :: :-) e) J/K :: :-X Ridiculous? Sacrilege? Perhaps you'd be thinking about
2006.02.01 22:06:23 EST Emil 周華健, a.k.a. Emil Chow, is one of my favorite Mandarin singer. The release of his CD Emil and Friends coincided with the end of 8th grade for me, immediately prior to my leaving Ta