Signed up three weeks ago for a computing experiment--digital image processing. My partner and I are supposed to be the first pair doing this experiment in some time, so we're sort of supposed to be guinea pigs for the reintroduction of this experiment. It shows--the sample code provided for this experiment is in QBasic. Argh. So we set to ( Read more... )

Coming up on the end of the first round of experiments this term. No more straining my eyes looking through a microscope at micrometric images of stars crammed into a miniscule area trying to figure out whether I've counted this particular star or not. No more tedious record-keeping ( Read more... )

The whole sordid mess from below had been posted to Fandom Wank. *sigh*

In other news, Gmail appears to be acting up--stuff I'm sending to my Gmail account keeps returning "Message Undeliverable" messages.

Hope it isn't something I did...

Just came from looking over a nasty fight on Godawful Fan Fiction. Name-calling, religious slurs, strawmanning, ad hominem attacks galore. It may have begun a few posts before, but here's what I can make out of it:

archonix: There is truth in all things! Especially in the Bible! Noah's Ark was true, you know!

Alma Geddon:The Wizard of Oz is ( Read more... )

Whoa. It's taken me nearly a month to get this done. It's turned out to be a LOT longer than I expected, and frankly, it sometimes felt like I was never going to get it done. But it is done, though, and I'm glad I got it done.

( Sara, Chapter 2 )

Yesterday was the 39th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Singapore. In a couple of days time, the current prime minister steps down, and a new one takes office, only the third man we've had in the position in nearly forty years. That may seem like an awfully long time to have had only two governments, but that's the way things ( Read more... )

Just got back on Sunday from a week's vacation to find things have gotten...interesting online and at home as well. Firstly--the good news: while I was away, my exam results arrived. Joy of joys, I passed. Two years of undergraduate physics under my belt, two more to go. YesAll things considered, had a great time in Australia. Brisbane, to be ( Read more... )

...to be have enough free time to write and draw (well, practice drawing, anyway), and it's a wonderful thing to share those things, too. Though not as much time as I would have liked, in the present case. I'm heading off on a holiday for the next week. Sure, I expect it'll be fun. The thing is, I wasn't planning to make a new entry until I'd ( Read more... )

Here it is, as I said yesterday--the first chapter of the story mentioned in the post below. All the caveats I mentioned below apply, of course. Now, here goes:

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Excuse me for a moment while I rant. My examinations took place last month--I've said this before on posts earlier on in this journal. I had average scores on some of them, did quite well on several--and nigh abysmally on one. Now, I should theoretically pass the last one, but the margin of error's high enough for my estimation that nothing's ( Read more... )