Posted on Tuesday 2008.02.05 at 3:35 pm in
life,
schoolBy Ryan McElroy
Well, last night was all-nighter #2. I struggled at time during the day, but now I seem to be rather awake, and I just finished my computational biology project with an hour and a half to spare!
Hopefully I’ll be able to get a little ahead of the wave and surf rather than my current state constantly almost drowning. Probably this means WoW and life will be put on hold for a few weeks.
This should be the last hardcore quarter, though — both of my Bioengineering petitions were approved, which means, as soon I as get credit for my Neural Engineering class and finish up my capstone, I will have no more Bioengineering classes left that I have to take. I repeat, after this quarter, I have no more Bioengineering classes left to take.
All that being said, I may still end up taking (or at least attending) Synthetic Biology, because it sounds like it might be a cool class.
That, and the CSE capstone. Maybe EE 233. And another CSE elective too, perhaps? Hm, maybe Spring will be intense too?
By Ryan McElroy
Every once in a while I read a paper that makes me think the social sciences are not entirely lost. The most recent, by an FSU professor is titled “Is There Anything Good About Men?” Definitely a thought-provoking read.
Posted on Sunday 2008.02.03 at 8:28 pm in
sportsBy Ryan McElroy
While my pre-game prediction of Giants 0, Patriots -21 (thats negative 21) didn’t pan out, the result was good enough to make me smile — I was pretty tired of hearing about the perfect Patriots. And this way, I don’t have to boycott the NFL for a year (as I said I would had the Patriots won).
To top it off, the game itself was thrilling, with a spetacular fourth quarter, and I was able to watch it with good friends, great food (including some killer Guacamole), and a fun atmosphere.
Posted on Friday 2008.02.01 at 1:20 pm in
technologyBy Ryan McElroy
Progress on WoW has slowed significantly since the early days, but this morning saw a significant advancement. Logins are now supported on Facebook as well as Bebo. From the log:
| type |
name |
timestamp |
message |
| init |
LithiumPolymer |
2008-02-01 12:56:14 |
Hero init Player object for “LithiumPolymer”, a level 36 Automator |
| init |
LithiumPolymer |
2008-02-01 12:56:14 |
Army init {‘pikemen’: 0, ‘soldiers’: 0, ‘total’: 7776564, ‘elites’: 7774388, ‘knights’: 2176} |
| init |
LithiumPolymer |
2008-02-01 12:56:13 |
Land init {‘training grounds’: 0, ‘forts’: 0, ‘mines’: 733955, ‘amplifiers’: 0, ‘barriers’: 0, ‘barracks’: 0, ‘total’: 733955} |
| init |
LithiumPolymer |
2008-02-01 12:56:10 |
Server warbook.freewebz.com gave session id 76453c05449b33ad5f520f257a519e82 |
| init |
LithiumPolymer |
2008-02-01 12:56:07 |
Initializing |
FYI, LithiumPolymer is my main Warbook account.
This is especially nice because it will allow me to do things like this:
p = Player('LithiumPolymer')
p.land.allocate_to_state({'training grounds': 0, 'forts': 0, 'mines': 1, 'amplifiers': 0, 'barriers': 0, 'barracks': 0})
To reallocate all of my land to mines. Currently, this takes about 30 mouse clicks and about 4 minutes. It can now be done in about 10 seconds — and all of that time is server latency.