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David Romano
2006 May 18 (Thu)
Definition of Windows
I'm pretty sure I've seen this before, but it just came up again on the Catalyst mailing list:
Windows (n.): 32-bit extensions to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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My Star Trek Character
Thanks Louis :-) I see it as
surprisingly representative of my personality too.
Your results:
You are Chekov
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Brash, rash and hasty, but everyone loves you.  |
2006/05/19 09:30
Angelo
Call me Welshie.
"An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 50%"
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2006 May 16 (Tue)
Saw a link to this on Julie's homepage (congrats on going to UPitt for grad school!):
| D | Dysfunctional |
| A | Appealing |
| V | Virile |
| I | Inspirational |
| D | Dirty |
Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com
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2006 May 08 (Mon)
So I went to this website referred to from this blog and realized how little I have traveled.
Luckily I stepped foot inside Canada when I was up in Montana with the family, and also went down to Mexico a couple times. The two countries in Europe (France and Italy) I just happened to visit just this past year. Unfortunately, both of them are small compared to all three of the countries I've been to in North America. Even though the European countries are small, I find them absolutely beautiful. I recommend anyone to go if they haven't been already. Anyway, I hope to travel to Asia, Africa, and South America within the next three years to make the map more decent.
create your own visited countries map
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2006 May 06 (Sat)
Just a few weeks ago, I started solving some of the problems on
projecteuler.net. The third problem
asks you to find the largest prime factor of 317584931803, which I did
by modifying the sieve method that I picked up from the second chapter of the
Perl Cookbook (2nd Ed.).
I've been reading a few pages from the Perl Cookbook (2nd Ed.) for
the past couple months, and so I was glad that I was actually able to use
some of it for fun. Tonight, I just read recipe 6.16, which discusses
detecting doubled words. I had almost skipped chapter six entirely because
I'm already half way through reading Mastering Regular Expressions (2nd
Ed.), but I'm glad I didn't. I found these two little gems (not very
practical, but interesting) in recipe 6.16:
for ($N = ('o' x shift); $N =~ /^(oo+?)\1+$/; $N =~ s/$1/o/g) {
print length($1), " ";
}
which calculates prime factors when given a number as an argument, and
# this solves the equation 12x + 15y + 16z = 281
if (($X, $Y, $Z) = (('o' x 281) =~ /^(o*)\1{11}(o*)\2{14}(o*)\5{15}$/)) {
($x, $y, $z) = (length($X), length($Y), length($Z));
print "One solution is x=$x; y=$y; z=$z.\n";
} else {
print "No solution found.\n";
}
# One solution is: x=17; y=3; z=2.
which solves for Diophantine equations of order one. The regex can be modified
to give different solutions:
('o' x 281) =~ /^(o*?)\1{11}(o*)\2{14}(o*)\5{15}$/
# One solution is: x=0; y=7; z=11.
('o' x 281) =~ /^(o+?)\1{11}(o*)\2{14}(o*)\5{15}$/
# One solution is: x=1; y=3; z=14.
Now I'm not sure which shocked me more: that others experimented with regexes
like this or that I actually understood how and why each worked. Either way,
like I said, I'm glad I didn't skip over this chapter. :-)
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2006 May 05 (Fri)
Someone on irc.perl.org#catalyst posted this link. A guy thought he could outrun the police because, allegedly in his own words, "I've been playing a lot of 'Grand Theft Auto' and 'NASCAR' on PlayStation. I thought I could get away." He ended up injuring an officer and dragging his girlfriend's 11-year-old daughter when she was attempting to get out of his car. Since he's most likely going to jail, I'm wondering if he'll be able to brush up on his GTA skills...for next time.
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