| 00:05.00 | scanline | darth_mall: they're doing another round of employee evaluations? |
| 00:05.33 | scanline | hmm |
| 00:05.41 | darth_mall | apparently |
| 00:05.55 | scanline | I should go ahead and GObjectize what I have so far in rtgraph and pythonificate it, so I can write test cases in PyUnit |
| 00:06.10 | scanline | but first.. dinner, trying out this CD burner, and maybe some studying |
| 00:06.52 | scanline | wow, they really meant bare drive |
| 00:07.00 | scanline | no box, it's just a DVD burner wrapped in bubble wrap |
| 00:07.38 | scanline | mmm.. 1TB of blank media... |
| 00:08.05 | darth_mall | wow... these guys are great at writing hw questions... "Look up how far is Mars from the sun. Calculate this distance from the results above."... really easy since Mars does not have a circular orbit... |
| 00:09.35 | hardwire | I would dig a treo |
| 00:09.42 | hardwire | but there is no service for it up here. |
| 00:09.42 | purple_cow | darth_mall: that's because it's an introductory class |
| 00:09.50 | purple_cow | it's the standard modus operadi for teaching science |
| 00:10.05 | purple_cow | first you teach a bunch of bogus stuff, then as you get higher level you start learning less bogus stuff |
| 00:10.06 | darth_mall | purple_cow: the table in our book gives distances for all the planets both at aphelion and perihelion |
| 00:10.16 | darth_mall | this is the table they tell us to look it up in |
| 00:10.34 | purple_cow | like electron orbits |
| 00:11.06 | purple_cow | where first you learn that they orbit, then you learn about energy levels, then you learn about orbit configurations |
| 00:11.22 | darth_mall | even in an intro class I don't see how you can look at a table, see there are two distances for each planet and not say which distance |
| 00:11.58 | darth_mall | I mean, if there were an average distance from the sun in the table I could understand the question, but there isn't |
| 00:15.00 | hardwire | kergoth: was it me that wanted and tried to keep GRE networking in the Z? |
| 00:15.07 | hardwire | cause I was slightly crazy. |
| 00:15.14 | darth_mall | hmm... this sounds like James Taylor |
| 00:17.08 | darth_mall | he has such a great voice |
| 00:19.22 | kergoth | hardwire: heh, dont recall |
| 00:19.28 | hardwire | ok |
| 00:19.28 | hardwire | well |
| 00:19.32 | hardwire | the new OZ is pretty |
| 00:19.37 | hardwire | I like the style |
| 00:19.44 | hardwire | needs my old background ;) |
| 00:20.47 | kergoth | heh, opie's backgrounds are still busted wrt alpha. doesnt let the background color bleed through still |
| 00:20.57 | kergoth | since sandman broke it as an optimization |
| 00:21.56 | hardwire | where are my old backgrounds |
| 00:22.00 | hardwire | shouldn't they be somewhere !! |
| 00:22.00 | hardwire | hehe |
| 00:29.44 | scanline | wow, my new drive's manufacture data is september 2004 |
| 00:29.56 | scanline | guess it really is pretty new |
| 00:29.58 | kergoth | heh, cool |
| 00:30.07 | kergoth | damnit,. who stole my motivation again |
| 00:30.13 | scanline | what's weirdest is it doesn't have a Sony logo anywhere on the front |
| 00:30.17 | scanline | just on the top sticker |
| 00:30.27 | scanline | must be some weird OEM deal |
| 00:30.32 | file | kergoth: motivation? what's that? |
| 00:31.25 | kergoth | i dont remember :( |
| 00:31.33 | file | well ic |
| 00:32.29 | file | these McDonalds commercials are amusing |
| 00:37.15 | purple_cow | mmm, food |
| 00:40.52 | darth_mall | sweet, only about 1.5 problems left on my astro hw |
| 00:50.26 | darth_mall | hmm... this num comp doesn't actually look too bad |
| 00:50.34 | kergoth | hrmmm |
| 00:50.43 | kergoth | woah, where'd the day go |
| 00:51.35 | kergoth | ooh productivity |
| 00:51.38 | kergoth | you should lend me some of that |
| 00:51.49 | darth_mall | heh, problem is I need it all and then some |
| 00:52.03 | kergoth | heh |
| 00:52.22 | darth_mall | purple_cow, scanline: don't forget, this thursday is that animation thing at IFS |