Happy Halloween

So things have been pretty busy around here lately. In no particular order, I have 4 midterms this week (a 10 page philosophy paper, a 3 page book of mormon paper, a physics rotational motion exam, and I already finished my mission prep exam). Talk Radio launched earlier this week without being ready (we were assuming it would be online this weekend) so I’ve been busy converting about 75 thousand records into improved formats (GMT offset 0 conversions for all the times, determining the timezone offset of every one of our radio stations, teaching a computer to translate something like “9a12p” into “9AM” and “12PM” and then from there into 24 hour GMT time, thinking about getting a halloween costume, putting off doing my laundry (that’s priority 1 tomorrow), getting my normal homework done, and getting Juicy Development.com whipped into shape (I think it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself).

That’s basically where things are at right now. I’m working on a few super-secret projects as always that are always fun to do, and I’m excited for the up-and-coming weeks. Oh, Social Dance is going well. We’ve so far done foxtrot and cha-cha with a bit of exposure to waltz and three step swing (more waltz than swing for sure). Waltz is a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to learning more of it. ChaCha is cool, but I have trouble remembering the steps all the time. I’m getting better at it though.

By the way, I’m downloading Ubuntu 8.10 right now and it’s streaming in at 800Kb/s. Over wireless. In a crowded chem classroom with about 200 people accessing the network at once. I love the infrastructure around here, they’ve done a great job with it. And running it on a 4GB RAM laptop with plenty of CPU and disk space is bliss. I was editing video on Ubuntu the other day while programming, compiling, emailing, running safari…by battery didn’t even take a hit. This computer rocks. I’m excited for when I get back from my mission and settle back into the groove of things. Prediction: Laptops will sport more than 10GB of RAM, at least 500GB flash drives, 8 cores per CPU with 2 CPUs per laptop, at least 1 GPU per laptop if not two, Apple having full blown OpenCU protocol implemented, and maybe even location aware technologies in every laptop. Who knows?

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Scratch that: We're up to 1.4M/sec