Shredder

Need a reason to buy a shredder? This just might be that reason.

Victoria

This has to be one of the strangest basketball games I've heard of. Poor guy.

And Now Winter is Gone (again)

Just the other day it was snowing. And now look at it here.

Captured with Jess' new Canon PowerShot A620, and a beautiful thing it is too.

Slogging in a Winter Wonderland

Just in case you didn't think it could snow in Portland in March.

The Real-life Simpsons

In case you ever wanted to know what the Simpsons would be like in real life.

Deep-fried Brain

This week I spend Monday through Thursday in all-day class 8:30am-5:00pm on IA32 architecture, which for you non-techies is the architecture of about 80% of computers in the world, including (unless you own a PowerPC Mac or still fuel your computing needs with your Commodore 64) your own. Some statistics for you:

Number of chapters in the class textbook: 61
Number of chapters in the class textbook CD-ROM addition: 16
Total number of chapters in the class textbook: 77
Number of pages in the class textbook: 1744
Number of pages in the class textbook CD-ROM addition: 342
Total number of pages in the class textbook: 2086
Retail price of the class textbook, including CD-ROM: $74.99 (paperback)

That's right, 2086 pages in four days. Fortunately, there is no test. Today was entirely spent talking about the Front Side Bus (FSB), which is what connects the processor to the Memory Controller Hub (MCH, sometimes called the Northbridge), as well as to other processors.

Yum. Tastes like deep-fried brain.

Google THIS

On Thursday night I went to the usual monthly PLUG meeting I go to sometimes in Portland. This time they had Michael Still and Trisha Weir, along with several others, from Google. Michael gave a presentation on ImageMagick, a library and set of command-line tools for image processing. Afterwards, as is customary, we went to the Lucky Lab in SE Portland and while there Google bought everyone a round of drinks. Well, turns out it was a Google recruiting event, most likely because of their new facility in The Dalles they refuse to acknowledge publicly.