There's nothing like spending hours hammering on hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ code to get it to compile with a 64-bit compiler, only to realize at the very end that you can't link the code because it relies some 32-bit DLLs that you don't have the source code for ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was messing around with 64-bit coding using Win XP x64 and the Platform SDK... After slaving away at writing a double-precision Mandelbrot loop using the SSE2 intrinsics, it turns out that the simple C++ loop was 30% faster ( Read more... )

"The idea that Mars was alive was a perfectly respectable position in the '30s. Even scientists who declared Mars a "dead" planet admitted that there were probably mosses and lichens to be found. Mosses and lichens! Today, we are calmly told that finding a fossil bacterium on Mars would throw us into an existential shock from which human ( Read more... )

Fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies are proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

Yay, I have a girlfriend now, and she's awesome! I haven't died of cooties yet, but if this is my last post, you'll know why.

P.S. I love you Lesley! :)

The problem with the Intelligent Design debate is that it eventually ends in an arms race, where simple mechanics look like subtle design.

"People willing to trade their intellectual flexibility for temporary emotional comfort deserve neither and will lose both." - Benjamin Franklin

(Ok, he didn't really say that... but he could have!)

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

Mail-in rebates are receipts for interest-free loans to manufacturers. Then they act like THEY are doing YOU a favor! Be they ever so wiley, and customers ever so stupid...

HARDCORE METAL!!!

Women take lots of time and energy to reach their own acceptable level of being-paid-attention-to-enough. So, in a way, a relationship is always tangibly expensive. On the plus side, love is technically free, which is how much I like to pay for things ( Read more... )