Walking in the Snow

I got a call that my blu-rays for The Expanse came in, today. Realizing I didn't have any other afternoon plans, aside from connecting and testing the OctoberProject fire logic, I decided to take the walk.

The walk to Bay Video is roughly 40 [...]

Re: Ill Again

I definitely find less excitement in wanting to watch it. I watched the first episode and thought it looked pretty good. I should continue but my mind doesn't settle on it. With Lexx, that was never an issue as it was something I found I could [...]

Something to look forward to

I really feel like a big problem I have is that I have nothing to look forward to.

On the work front, I don't think I have real prospects. Combine that with the lack of in-person work going on, the lack of problems worth solving, and how so many [...]

Re: New Draft - 1798108309

While I always thought the world could use more melodramatic wording (I am a goth, after all), I know that I tend to be very to the point in text (partly due to SMS limits but also my dislike of touchscreens for typing).

Ill Again

This is strange. Historically, I only get a bad cold once every 2-3 years but this year I got one at the beginning on January and now at the beginning of February. I blame the lack of normal human contact: Either being alone or sometimes in large [...]

Fitness for Human Interaction

For some time, I have been noticing that I am becoming "stranger". I blame this on general isolation and lack of humanization. I don't really know how to interact with people, these days, so I just seem to intensely babble or just generally act [...]

Re: This hits close

I do wonder how we got to this place where they needed to make such dramatic and sudden changes to international student enrolment. I wonder if the issues had been growing for a long time, were sudden, or were not directly related (like if it was a [...]

Re: Licensing

I hope that this is progressing well and that you get this licensing issue sorted out. Good to hear that the MRI results were normal.

Re: Silly Meme

Congrats! I hope that getting started goes smoothly and that the job is good.

Re: Illness finally caught me

Ear was really plugged so I went to get it flushed on Thursday. That seemed to work (I feel "clearer") but I still can't really hear out of my right side. Not sure what that is about. They did say my other ear looks like it is still slightly [...]

Re: Silly Meme

When I looked it up, I found a song called "So Sick". I haven't heard it and that doesn't sound very promising.

Re: Excited about Job Prospect

Hopefully that goes well. Good luck!

Re: 2024 in review...

That was a big and difficult year for you so hopefully 2025 is off to a better start.

Illness finally caught me

After weeks of just sort of being tired, but not actually getting sick, I think it finally caught up with me, last night.

A few hours before I planned to head out to a monthly event I like, I suddenly felt excruciating ear pain. I tried flushing [...]

Re: All of us Strangers

Hard to get much of a sense of it from just the trailer but it looks potentially interesting.

Re: This new-ish (2 month old) playlist rocks

Ha, not bad! I hope that your holidays are going well.

Re: Such tiredness

I was wondering that, too. It seems like a bunch of people I know have been sick with something pretty rough within the past few weeks.

I assume it is either that, a lot of overcast days leading up to the shortest day (which I guess is today), or [...]

OP on track

Managed to get a lot done on OctoberPeaks, today. I think all the work required for the RC0 build is complete so I should be able create the release, tomorrow. I hoped to get it done today until I realized I planned to introduce a sky in this [...]

Back on track

I managed to find a way to take of the aforementioned "short-cuts" and that seemed to provide a big win (that benchmark is now down to 17.6 seconds). I suspect that the real-world benefit will be even greater since it involves removing a [...]

Re: Such tiredness

Still feeling oddly tired, all the time.

On top of that, I think that the initial results showing an 80% win seemed to have been a bug related to a bogus write-back in a prototype resulting the algorithm exiting earlier without being complete. So [...]

Such tiredness

I have no idea what it is but I have been so tired, these past few weeks. Yesterday, I hardly managed to do anything since I kept just feeling like I needed to sleep. After sleeping in little stints throughout the day, I still managed to get more [...]

Re: An interesting conversation should be had here

The cross-section of the species represented by social media discourse is very troubling, much as you pointed out, and would lead the most optimistic person to assume we are dying out.

Honestly, I don't really know all the ways people could [...]

Not of this world

I met a former coworker to talk about a potential job, today. Despite it sounding somewhat interesting, and not completely outside of my domain, it is another remote-only position and that just doesn't work for me, these days (unless it is in the [...]

Re: Hang yourself upside down.

Good news that things are improving since getting out of the chair. I have heard that the lack of mobility is only the tip of the iceberg, when confined to one of those, so it is good that you were able to get out.

It is hard to believe that all [...]

Tired days

Work on OctoberProject has been slow-going since I spent the past few days agonizing over how to approach this network optimization (since none of my ideas seemed both elegant and containable) only to eventually just quickly hack in one approach to [...]