June 2010
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TODO
Write bot
Database population
PHP pages to edit database for TA use only (so it doesn’t have to be … super pretty)
Student edit and reset
Student inventory lookup (public)
Automatic calculation of credits / credits remaining
Store pages with descriptions of everything
Badge/achievement system descriptions / implementations
Comes with its own bit of database pulling that...
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Dev: Have you seen [student name here]'s class index? -__________-
me: no...
me: ......... ::l o l::
me: Just looked.
Dev: Ah. Yeah. 1995 wants its website back.
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Toy Story 3
Gonna say straight out that Toy Story 1 and 2 were only “meh” in my opinion… I’ve liked other Pixar films much more. Having said that, TS3 has definitely ingrained itself as one of the better Pixar films… I absolutely liked it more than 1 or 2… though I don’t think it quite topples Ratatouille as my favorite.
Aggravatingly enough, the whole film was...
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The Karate Kid
Saw this with my parents the other day. Thought it’d make a good Father’s Day flick, since both me and my dad are closet (or not-so-closet maybe) Jackie Chan fans and we’ve both seen the original. He also reacted positively to the trailer when we went to see… uh… oh, How To Train Your Dragon.
Summation? I quite liked it! Sure there wasn’t a whole lot in terms...
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Firsts
Not going to write much, since I’m quite tired and I still have to wake up early for badminton.
First day of ATDP, first time in many years where I was only teaching one section. Felt really weird breaking for lunch and not feeling the pressure to be back by 1:00pm. First time eating at the Brazil Cafe.
First time giving a placement test to students, first time working with two...
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What Is I.B.M.’s Watson? →
It’s a long article, but it’s pretty awesome. At least watch the video. :x
For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer....
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Holy crap, I can see the floor of my room.
Heeey. Let’s write.
I neglected to mention how much a pain in the ass moving is; packing up our 3-year apartment on Ellendale and trying to stuff the lot of it (sans furniture, which was donated to Salvation Army — we think -_-; ) into my tiny Prius… not the least bit fun.
Less horrible was finally pulling into Castro Valley and moving boxes out of the car and into the...
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Weight
It’s been a while since I publicly vented about something so personal (i.e. a public “flogging” of a person I care about), but I’m really struggling with this. So, time to get it all out… in the only way I know how.
My mother is becoming intolerable.
She was hospitalized a while ago, can’t remember how long exactly. Since I wasn’t in town when it...
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WatchJohn Underkoffler on G-speak at TED.
This presentation actually was not NEARLY as impressive as the one he gave at USC, when his company gifted USC with a G-speak system (which lived in Flowerspace). He had most of the functions of the gestural system, but didn’t really demonstrate them specifically… and projection would have only covered the stage area, whereas in Flowerspace, the...
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I am certifiably insane.
[01:28:17] DITTO: WELCOME TO TIC: THE RPG.
[01:28:18] Kass: !challenge kass
[01:28:18] DITTO: kass has challenged kass!
Challenge will expire in 1 minute.
[01:28:20] Kass: !accept
[01:28:20] DITTO: kass has accepted the challenge.
Duel is beginning: kass vs kass!
kass rolled 2 for initiative. kass rolled 2.
kass goes first.
[01:28:25] Kass: !hand
[01:28:25] DITTO to...
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Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Google Tributes of the... →
Some of these are really awesome. The Echochrome one even went all out and did a video. >_>;
But the Bomberman one is the only one I could really see working the same way the Pacman one did. ;x Maybe Donkey Kong too. ::lol::
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Context is overrated.
Quadoshock: TRYPHONESEX
lloydinmaui: lol. are you sure? ;p
Quadoshock: look at it
lloydinmaui: Makes sense. But why on earth would Dev choose such a phrase?
Quadoshock: in engineering, the most elegant solution is usually right
Quadoshock: it makes you go >_>
Quadoshock: at least, I can imagine Kass giving the biggest sideward look ever
lloydinmaui: Well, Dev says that's not it. But it's "hilarious"
Quadoshock: oh, hahaha
“And now you have to deal with JELLYFISH SEX.”
– Dev
(context? of course not.)
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IT'S A TRAP (cont.)
Soooo, I have seriously lost nearly all faith in internet commerce, especially on craigslist. I’m sure it’s still a wonderful service for some things, but as far as housing is concerned… it’s just painful.
It’s probably partially my fault for being attracted to entries that have low rates, but still. One particularly elegant scam involves filling out an application,...