sness

Sunday, February 10, 2008

kirk

Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."

-- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3

math and music

Using algorithms to restore the only known live recording of Woodie Guthrie. A fascinating article.

functional

Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures - A blog post about the book Purely Functional Data Structures.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

I just read a google horror story about how this guy got his gmail account phished and lost his email, blogs and all other google things.

I use gmail, but I forward my mail from my domain to gmail and keep a copy on my server.

I also just backed up my blogger blog with the command:


wget 'http://sness.blogspot.com/search?max-results=100000'

phantasmagoria

I learned a new word today:

phantasmagoria [fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee-uh, -gohr-]

noun

1.a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.

2.a changing scene made up of many elements.

3.an optical illusion produced by a magic lantern or the like in which figures increase or diminish in size, pass into each other, dissolve, etc.

assembly, gathering; see -ia][Origin: 1795-1805; F fantasmagorie, compound based on fantasme phantasm; second element perh. repr. Gk agor

Friday, February 08, 2008

get fit

17 Fitness Truths To Get You In Great Shape. Some great tips here. One really important one that I found worked for me was:

12. Focus on your diet first.

This is so essential, working out is really important, it is what gives me so much clarity and makes me feel so good, but to lose weight, you have to eat less. You just don't burn that many calories at the gym, so I've reduced the amount of food I eat by a lot, and have given up the foods that I was addicted to, like chips. It's hard, I know, but believe me, it is so much more fun to be in good shape than eating snacks that you won't miss those treats at all.