Checksum Arcanius

A while back, I created a map of the states and countries I had visited. Since I visited Georgia as a part of the Titan Robotics Trip to the FIRST Robotics Championships, I thought I should update that map. Here it is:

This time, I decided to include states that I’ve been on the ground in, even if I’ve only been in the airport terminal. Doing it this way adds Illinois, Missori, and Wisconsin to the mix, which makes me feel a little bit better about my travel accomplishments. There is still too much white in there, though.

Up until about 6 hours ago, I hadn’t seen any of the Olympics this year. I more than made up for that tonight, by watching almost 6 hours straight of NBC olympic coverage. Sure, I channel surfed during the breaks, but most of the time was spent watching the athletes. Of Course, some athletes I watched more closely than others, but it the things they all do are amazing.

Today’s highlights for me:

• Men’s Swimming Medley Relay: US Team continues its dominace with a world record time.
• Women’s Beach Volleyball: Hot US women (Walsh and May, see above) defeat China. Take that, commies!
• Men’s 100m dash: Three US athletes advance, each winning their heat in under 10 seconds.
• Men’s Soccer: Iraq wins 1-0 to advance to semifinals. Shi’ites, Sunis, and Kurds in Greece all cheer together.

Too bad I wasn’t sleeping. My sleep schedule has got to be one of the most erratic out there.

Last night, I decided to set up the new wireless router I aquired, a process which included me accidently tripping power to sf2 twice, which, needless to say, wasn’t exactly what I intended. The result is that Silverfir experienced a bit of completely unneccesary downtime. Combined with the fact that I forgot to start up MySQL again, it was a bad day for the server. Oh well, all is well again.

Today, I played frisbee, a process which saw my team get owned again, but I had a great time. Also, the TRC had a hack session which involved generally uninterested kids and a very cool demosration by Jim Wright.

I didn’t know what all the Quicktags in WordPress did, because I’m out-of-touch with HTML, so I decided I’d figure out what they all mean and look like.

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Today, after work and dinner, I picked up a SMC Wireless Router at CompUSA, based on Dan’s suggestion, a solder station at Fry’s, along with 100 CD-R’s for $9, and some Cat 6 ethernet patch cables. I took a picture of the loot, but right now I’m feeling just a little too lazy to get it from my camera and upload it. Maybe tomorrow you’ll get lucky. As for right now, its about 100 degrees in my roo because of all the computer equipment thats on in here.

11:51 and I just got up… Bah…

And now, for some comic relief:

“Now basically, the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it’s produced by the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance. the original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing, in such a way that the two swerving bearings run a direct line with the panametric fan“

One of my resolutions this year was to be “early to bed, early to rize.” Yes, I spelled it with a ‘z’, I don’t really know why. I haven’t really kept that resolution, but today it actually happened. The boss is doing a demo, and I wanted to make sure everything was together before he left – so I came in at 6:00 to meet him as he picked up the material thatI prepared yesterday. It seems like everything is hunky-dory, and I’m fulfilling a resolution to boot.

In other news, Gmail seems to only update every 10 or 15 minutes , which is plenty fast unless you are expecting something. So IM it ain’t. And speaking of Gmail, why haven’t I seen any invitations in, like, 10 years? I mean, comeon, I have a faithful public to service.

Otherwise, things are going well. FlicConf rocks my socks, and now it has a contact form too (thus the 10-15 minute delay in Gmail was discovered).