JP Sugarbroad

First session with personal trainer today. Ow. Took me 45 minutes and 4 glasses of water before I could reliably stand up again. I'm pretty sure I managed to tank my blood volume with all the exercise. Still, great endorphin rush! :-)

I tried to gamma-adjust the display... bad idea. Apparently the gamma varies based on viewing angle.

New video card: eVGA GTX 260 (not the Core 216 version, unfortunately)
New monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2233sw

OMG fun. The GTX 260 is a monster!

"Basically, play[ing] EVE is exactly like using Windows - except instead of selecting Cut, Copy and Open With, you're selecting Target Lock, Orbit, and Activate Acceleration Gate."

(source)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/from-the-academy-the-end-of-privacy.ars

(via)

FF7 done. All weapons dead, end completed. *yawn*

FF8 in progress.

And now Cloud has an 8-inch cannon...

http://taral.dreamhost.com/stupid/

Soooo funny...

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/77909774/m/515008526931

(via wmf)

Inbound aircraft was almost 3 hours late. Finally leaving for Montreal. Looking forward to a good night's sleep.

30 minute security lines. Not too bad. People camped out here due to Horizon and Alaska canceling flights whole day at a time. Looks like I got lucky -- leaving yesterday or tomorrow would have been quite the unpleasant experience based on what I'm hearing here.

Warhammer Online. I hear good things.

Poll #1280690 Warhammer Online
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Buy it and try it while waiting for the WoW expansion pack?

Sold the car yesterday. Market for the car has unfortunately tanked in the past couple months (rental car companies are letting the '07 priuses go now), so I didn't get a great price for it, but at least I'm not paying car loan + insurance anymore. We have flexcar zipcar to cover things like grocery trips &c.

It's actually kind of scary. Just a touch. Despite the fact that I almost never drove the thing, having it available gave me a certain comfort -- I could always jump in the car and drive if I absolutely had to get somewhere right now. I guess I can use a taxi now... still, it's unnerving.

I've long wondered why multicast and push-based data systems (push-RSS? push-IMAP?) haven't happened yet on a wide scale. This wonderful article explains why that is (amongst other things) in economic terms and proposes two effective workarounds (charge for it and polling).

(via wmf)

What if... the many-worlds interpretation is correct, and an isolated Higgs boson has appropriately catastrophic results. Then we'd never see an isolated Higgs boson, right?

*giggle*