Testing, testing one, two three....

Interesting....[click title]

This is interesting, kind of odd, but interesting idea. Clicking the title should take you to the bbc news site.

Life in Slow Motion

New David Gray album is great. If any music snobs sneer at this, you ought to know that he is influenced by Sigur Ros, and so am I so that makes us both cool. Ok!

Best TV show, don't have too much time for TV, but I made an effort to watch House. It's awesome, kind of dark and funny at the same time. Best show ever. Not just saying that because it has Hugh Laurie either.

Been making beer recently. Think it is going to turn out well. The only problem with making beer is that one has to drink lots of it to get bottles enough for the fruits of ones (and the yeasts, ,lets not forget the yeast) labors. Drinkable in about four weeks if the bottles don't explode or if bacteria don't get in and turn into vinegar.

This confused the hell (sorry 'bout the pun) out of me for about ten minutes. Can you see where I had gone wrong?

http://radix16.blogpsot.com/

Radix

Yep, busy some more!

Assembly language programming sucks! Stinks big time! It's all LDA and INX and STAA! Have to keep referring to a ten-page list of cryptic instructions to find out what the hell kind of branch I need to do! There's a reason they invented high level languages! Soooo, of late I have been rather busy alternating between writing useless programs in java to prove I can (don't you just hate case-sensitivity!) and programing (in assembly language) the M68HC11 microcontroller. The only saving grace is that the simulator we use to do the debugging is on the HC11 is called 'The Wookie'. Wife has been very sweet and very wonderful these past few days while I have been a grumpy git dealing with this stuff! She is a very patient woman, especially seeing as though when I complain, she has absolutely no idea what I am talking about. Kind of like most people reading this :) I keep getting the urge to put a semi-colon at the end of every line, but I will resist;

-Radix, RX, Radox...whatever...

Pork Luncheonmeat

I got my first spam! I feel so honored!

Goin' down to St. Louis this weekend, should be fun. People we are staying with have a cat, that as a kitten was known as Freddie, now as an adult he is known as Fatty. Tom-cats suffer from the male condition, that's the problem. Males like to lie around all day in a warm, soft spot, maybe sleep a lot and watch some T.V. Cats get to actually do that! They don't get shifted out of their place of comfort by a woman! They don't have to work, do chores (so-called honey-do's). 'S no wonder tom cats can get a little on the porky side!

Not feeling too self-indulgent at the moment, so have no need to pontificate at length today...Besides the news is too depressing at the moment. Have some strongs views regarding how fragile civilization can be. Might go away and re-read Lord of the Flies...

Here's a link in case I have not satisfied your blog fix for today.
http://jj-sac.blogspot.com/

(careful, he may copy-edit any comments you make ;)

Hope you all have a nice long weekend.

And my name is not Radox! Git!

-Radix

Busy again!

Have not posted anything for a while - have been too busy! I had to work two jobs this week, also it was my wife's birthday and I had mass preparations to take care of. Besides all that, I have not had much to complain about, and as my dad used to say "If you 'avent got nuthin' negative to say, then don't say it!". At least I think thats what he said...

...wet jet

Before anyone asks. The reason I continued to use the terrible device for so long is as follows:

This thing cost me money. They give you a bunch of cleaning pads with the swiffer and several gallons of goop in special plastic bottles that it squirts out when you clean. Now, the cleaning pads run out before the goop. So now I have an expensive cleaning gadget, a bunch of goop in special bottles and no cleaning pads. So to make me feel like I am recouping some of my losses I purchase more pads so I can at least use up the rest of the goop (and the free batteries) before consigning it permanently and exclusively to its most useful role as a telescopic ceiling-bug squisher. Problem now is that the goop has run out, but I bought more pads before it did, so now I am stuck with a bunch of cleaning pads and this stupid stick with a foot on the end. Do I buy more goop so I can finish up the pads? You see, I am trapped for life! The only person who thinks this device is great and would take this crap off my hands, is in South Carolina! Damn!

No time, no time...must dash!

Have been busy today. Professors making us do homework and write computer programs and stuff. One lovely professor has us doing binary arithmetic and base changes by hand. You can only see so many 10001110's before your eyes go funny! Hex is real fun because once you figure out what the equivalent number is (0-15) you then have to decide if it is 0-9 or A-F. Next thing you know they will be expecting me to take tests and stuff! They should be paying me!

Decided to avoid the dance today and find a computer somewhere other than the library. I decided to go to the lab in Middlebush - big mistake! I ended up next to the guy with the plague or SARS or something - the one that hacks and splutters constantly. This dude didn't cough into his hand, but instead had the novel idea of burying his chin inside the neck of his t-shirt. Then at the back was the guy with big hair and even bigger headphones. This bloke looked like he had two trashcan lids strapped to either side of his head! Oh well, at least I did not have to listen to the usual tinny tsh tsh tsh that normally comes out: these headphones transmitted a bit of bass across the room also.

Got another weird person in one of my classes, kept looking around and muttering something about the Tab-key, very disturbing...

Anyway, I am back in the library now, or for some students- the University Doss House. On some days I see more people sleeping in here than working. Maybe it's like the people who sleep through lectures, I often wonder if they take that subliminal learning idea a little too seriously.

Got to work this evening, though I only have to work one more time and this is the last time I have to work till nine! Happy! My current job is not too bad, I just don't like doing boring work when I am tired and hungry. I could be using that time to be doing something fun like binary arithmetic! At least I get to do that on a full stomach...Maybe I should invent a device to do binary arithmetic for me. Hmmm, maybe if I make it out of tiny electrical circuits formed by doping silicon...It would be tiny and process numbers for me....I could name it a microprocessor. I could make millions...

Finally, I heard a rumor that someone I know has been hailing the virtues of a device known as a Swiffer Wet-Jet. I have been conducting (forced) product testing of this device at least once per week for some years now, and have concluded that it sucks. Well, actually, it doesn't suck, that's the problem. It blows might be a better way of describing it. In fact, rather than removing particulate matter from my bathroom floor, I think it initiates some kind of atomic conversion using the vinyl floor and the vacuum energy of space, resulting in the creation of new particulate matter. Said matter coalesces via some kind of mechanism resulting from electromagnetic force into dark blue fluff that can only be removed by placing a hydrated kitchen towel in right hand and holding body parallel to floor, then moving ones hand in a circular motion.

If I have to get on my hands and knees and scrub after I have used a so-called ‘time saving’ device, whereas before I did not, then the device is clearly not time saving! Those things should come with a warning “For use on clean floors only”. Maybe I’m the timesaving device?! Oooh, deep man…!


-Radix