Another Ramble

[danalwyn]

Early this morning (4:05 by my clock), I was having a dream that was fairly long and complicated-the part I was stuck at involved a young boy jumping like a frog and appeared to have no connection to real life, when I was unfortunately awoken by the unique feeling of my apartment building doing the tango. Since I am a California native I simply opened one eye, looked to see if anything large was going to fall on me, listened for the sound of something heavy falling on someone else, and then rolled over and went back to sleep. This is sort of disturbing because I could have been feeling the side effects of something that killed hundreds of people in Los Angeles, or wiped out the population of Tijuana, but I'm not much of a benefactor to humanity at 4:05 in the morning. Besides, something that can't even knock over my bookcases isn't even worth getting up for.

Still, that makes the second earthquake that was actually detectable in San Diego in a bit under a year. That probably means that a real big one is on the way and the entire city is going to sink into the ocean in a few years. Well, that's the price you pay for living in California. I'd still take it over Chicago any day of the week.

Not much happened on my trip, except for another weird dream which involved a supercomputer center, a hillside, forest rangers, the Air Force, blowing up a damn, killer berserker robots from the future come to unleash the ultimate evil, a sentient computer virus, brave college students, and an ancient supercomputer built to contain the ultimate evil. This just goes to show you that the inside of my brain is weird.

I need to work on my Go as well. It's been getting sloppy. I was playing a friend of mine (one of my main competitors) on Monday, and a 1-dan I know had a field day making fun of my fuseki/joseki. Either that or I've got to stay awake when playing.

Not much happening at work these days, except for coding on Python. I've learned not to code on the old machine in my office. It behaves a bit funny sometimes when you ask it to perform floating point operations. And it's never been the same since that time when we accidentally opened an electronic copy of the Necronomicon on it and summoned Dread Cthulu into the downstairs computer lab, which resulted in the Dread One guzzling all the beer in the graduate student refrigerator, and clogging up the drains when we flushed him back to dread R'yleh. Boy was that a pain. Anyway I tried some Python on it, and the code mutated into a giant snake which sprang out of the computer screen and tried to bite my head off, which was actually quite amusing because pythons normally constrict their prey-their teeth aren't that dangerous to a full grown human. After a while I managed to wrestle its head off and shove it in a waffle iron, and finally managed to bake its brains out. After this exertion I tried to play solitaire, but remembered that I forgot to install it with the rest of the Linux system I'm using. This put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

All right, I'm lying. But only about the floating point operations.

In other news I've finally posted a review of a Naruto story to GAFF-after four weeks of hemming and hawing over it. I don't think it's that good-but I need to post something before I start going crazy and feeling that I'm not contributing. I wonder, is it a sin to post reviews that still need more editing, or should you depend upon other GAFFers to add their own editing?

Comments

[saraswathi-rani.livejournal.com]

*snicker* My my, who'd have thought Californians were so jaded? Do you have any idea of what the earthquake actually did, now?

I live in DC, and I remember feeling a very small earthquake sometime last year. It lasted all of two seconds, and the only reason I noticed it was because my computer monitor shook a bit. I didn't even realize that it was supposed to be an earthquake until the next day, when everyone was talking about it.

But then again, you don't get very many earthquakes and suchlike around here. Just various diseases. ^_~

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

The Earthquake did nothing. It was actually smaller than I thought it was, but it was much closer. It was only a 3.9, and I thought it was about a 5.6-but it was fairly shallow and very near to where we were as opposed to most earthquakes, which are a good distance off.

We're probably as jaded about earthquakes as midwesterners are jaded about tornadoes.

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

...So, if California sinks, and I'm a California resident living in Virginia, woll my residency to California no longer apply? Could I become a Virginia resident without being screwed over any more than I already have been?


And I'm willing to bet Californians are as jaded about earthshakes as we on the East Coast are about hurricaines. They're never a problem until they occur.

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

Will, not woll.

Mi spel gud.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

All of California won't sink. Only the expensive part. The rest of us will finally afford to be able to live there.

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

Cool. Would college be affordable?

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

Wishes we grant. Miracles however are slightly beyond our ability level.

Actually, it's not so bad. College is affordable in CA if you know where to look. And if you pick the right major. Just like everywhere else.

[virgi.livejournal.com]

Hey, nice GO board ;)