actuality.log

For those not tuning in often enough (you bad reader you), you probably need to catch the earlier piece to figure out what’s going on.
Summarizing the earlier exposé, the prospect of […]

As you have undoubtedly noticed, there has been a marked drop in quality and quantity of the content on this (and sister) site(s). You might have also noticed, there is clearly a lack of real-life-pertinent content, and just a whole lot of arbitrary […]

(Real life details resume soon.)
For those interested, I’ve almost gotten my computer to a state I wanted it to be in. With all the moving data out, formatting, repartitioning, reinstalling OSing, […]

I, apart from being a certified sociophobe, am also what you may call a phonophobe. As in, I don’t really make or receive telephone calls, and more amusingly (to you), I am extremely terrified by the prospect. Therefore, for the most part, my […]

partially. But there have been semi-major data losses (including said posts) with the whole computer not being OK thing. And that sucks.
So, while I was salvaging stuff and waiting for many […]

A few months ago, my computer sort-of-hung as it was booting into the windows partition. I watched the hard drive LED stay on continuously for some 10 minutes, after which it continued to boot seemingly normally. Once I logged in though, things weren’t […]

Stuff I wrote elsewhere, in response to:
You see, science requires proof and rational explanation behind every statement. There may be certain ’statements’ (that have no)/(cannot have any) proof in the language […]

I’ve not done something of this sort in a while, and I’m rather rusty.
I was doodling during a particularly boring talk a while ago, and ended up drawing something that I […]

A ton of things bug me, some more than others. This is just one of those things.
I hate those guys who keep going “my girlfriend” this, “my girlfriend” that.
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Finally returning to our much famed “In grad school…” series.
You view life from extremely warped points of view when you’re born a hacker*. It ends up affecting the decisions you make […]

This post exists “just because”. You have no idea how hard I’ve had to push myself to write these few inconsequential lines. I am … spent. I don’t know what else to say. I arrive home from the lab at some 2 AM […]