Major project update
So yea, as most of you know, for CSH, we have to do a "major project" every year in order to be allowed to live here next year. It's purpose is to ensure that house members are active and contributing and whatnot. So these are due by next Thursday, and well I pretty much just started mine yesterday after a few half-assed ideas fell through.
Essentially what I am doing now is creating a reference for crypto people. I want to get some decent information about a bunch of ciphers into a database so you have a quick reference, but then I am using perl modules to implement encryption and decryption with these ciphers, something which is quite scarce on the intarweb. It is looking like the project will be done shortly, then it will just be a matter of tweaking it (variable integrity checking, style, and adding more ciphers). Anyway, what I have available is here. What is hot about this site, which doesn't matter to non-computer nerds, is that it is driven by about 30 lines of php, and a single CSS sheet. All of the data is pulled from a Postgres database, making it easy to add more information. Well I am rambling now because "it's 3 am and I wanna go to beeeeeed." Let me know if there is any feedback on the project, everything is rather beta right now, especially the style.
Oh yea, and I came in second in poker tonight to Tom. But being that short stacked in heads up is almost insurmountable. But I am rather pleased with most of the hands that I played. I can't really remember playing too many of them out to the river, and being blindsided. And we have coined the new term "eeyoring". It is when you call the bet with a depressed Eeyore voice, even though you've had the hand won since the flop. It is the pan-ultimate in slow playing.
I however think that I am playing life a little too much like poker lately. Too much slow playing on some hands, I wouldn't want them to slip away. Bigger risks mean bigger swings right? I could go from average to short stack or chip leader in one move. But do I have the right read on the other players? It's all about the tells right?