Month: March 2003

Finally got my camera :). Watch out for updates to the picture page. Still figuring out how to get things done with this thingy. For the impatient, I’ll soon put up a few, with a quick page describing the pictures.

Success, in a way. Got the “Shooting method” working for solving the differential equations. Now I can get it to solve a BVP of my choice. Nice.

There was an attempt to deliver my camera today when I wasn’t at home :(. Now I’ve got to wait for one more day. Not to mention, if I am not home at the right time tomorrow, I’d have to go to some odd place and pick it up. That’d suck.

Suprisingly paranoid about leaving my computer on the network. Is sad.

Watched two Animatrix movies. Quite cool. Especially “Program”.

Pretty event filled week. Most importantly, my computer was charged with a DCMA violation, for some hacker using my computer to host a movie on eDonkey. I had to format my drive to prevent further such “hacker” attacks. Damn laws. I am an angry man. But on the plus side, if there is one, I got to clear tons of junk from my hard disk which I didn’t really use.

It’s been getting warmer. There were a couple of days in which mostly everybody was in shorts and tee’s, but it’s a bit colder now, so that’s not happening at the moment.

Needless to say, there is a lot more skin being shown, and should increase exponentially with temperature. That’s a good thing.

The “war” has begun. Actually, it began a while ago, but I haven’t had a machine to really post anything. It really isn’t much of a war, it’s more of a display of millitary might by the (above average violent ?) Americans. Since I don’t really care too much for either of the warring parties, I don’t really condone or encourage the war.

Then again, senseless death and destruction is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s fun in games, so it should be in real life as well. Yes, games tend to make people more violent. I was just trying to make a point.

So, is their “Shocking and Aweing” in pursuit of “I-rack-ee-freedom” begun at the “Target of Opportunity” a bad thing? I don’t really care.

So amidst fixing my computer and avoiding an overdose of news on the exact locations where the coalition (U.S and probably reluctant British) troops dropped their warheads, I’ve been doing a ton of shopping this month. Camera, music, memory, books, speakers… and such. I just completed some of my accounting and yes folks, I’ve spent a grand, and that’s before the real expenses like the rent, utilities and food. But, it feels good. I feel good.

Damn I wish my camera would get here.

I need to get back to installing stuff and bringing my computer back to a state in which I can get some work done.

Ahh yes, finally ordered my camera yesterday. I had to do some stuff like stoop down to a shady online store to hopefully save a couple (or more) bucks. I am hoping and praying now it’s not a mistake.

Or I’ll be poorer by some 700$ with nothing to show for it.

On another front, it’s been much warmer over the past few (ok two) days. I didn’t leave home for anything yesterday and was beginning to feel a bit bugged (gasp). I took a small stroll down to the park and a creek that’s now flowing. Saw some cute ducks doing their thing. Nice.

Saw a lot of enthusiastic people happily jogging, cycling, walking their dogs and such. Makes me wonder why we couldn’t be more naturally athletic.

Then again I feel smarter.. so things average out in the end.

Things looking better on the RA work. It was pretty scary for a bit last week when I had no clue and tests and such minimized my working time. But, it’s all back on track now.

Can’t wait for my camera. Not that I love photography or have something specific to shoot, but just so that I know for sure I haven’t been conned. That should hopefully result in some decent pictures to dress up my site with. Also thinking about those photography lessons, but they’re like $50 for a couple of hours. Damn.

In a moment of boredom (probably associated with the not leaving home in a while) I decided to play around with Pi. Play around as in generate the number upto a million decimal places, color code the digits and stick it into a web page to snare an unsuspecting netizen and crash his/her browser attempting to render the huge page. But then again, if they’re smart and using a gecko based thingy, life should go on as planned for those folk.

Had another one of those First Year Doctoral Students Meets. Was fun as usual. Got to meet some interesting people from different fields. From biochemistry to nursing to engineering to mass media communications. (WHAT? you say? I know, I never knew of such a thing before this.)

Of course, I, like most others, went for the food, and it was decent.

Warmth is good.