Entries from April 2002
Language-recognition algorithm
This is fascinating. Italian researchers have found a way to identify the source language of a text just based on how that text has been treated by a compression algorithm. It gets better:
The scientists performed a further test of their technique by analyzing a single text that has been translated into many different languages — [...]
Blogging & hate speech
The kind of conundrum only a blogger could face: Blogdex recently removed a hate-speech website from its index. A discussion ensued, in the course of which the person who originally complained about the website in question accidentally outed himself. Now, here’s the thing: I really want to dislike this guy for being such a cringing [...]
Ultimate bad date…?
Now this is what I call a bad date. Not to be cruel, but the clue-phone was ringing for a long time before this woman got around to picking it up. I’m signed up on nerve.com too, and I’ve gone on some bad dates (including a comically bad one this past Wednesday), but I haven’t [...]
Eeyore’s Birthday
Eeyore’s Birthday was held this past Saturday. I went for a couple hours, saw some of the usual suspects. Big hippie-freak fest.
I debated bringing my own camera, but it’s hard to just enjoy yourself when your trying to document everything.
This whole OS X upgrade
This whole OS X upgrade thing is still consuming way too much of my time. I need to go for a bike ride.
Installing the update from 10.1 to 10.1.3 was a huge pain in the ass, since I had had the audacity to move some apps around. The updater couldn’t find them, and so installed [...]
I upgraded to Mac OS
I upgraded to Mac OS X today. I have been in maximum geek-mode for about 6 hours now. You know its maximum geek-mode when you forget to eat, then you remember your hungry, and even then decide to defer dining.
OS X is…different. It’s very disorienting in hundreds of little ways, not to mention the fact [...]
So I was making a
So I was making a fire-baton a couple days ago, and because I’m a klutz, jammed a phillips-head screwdriver into the web between my index finger and thumb. Ouch. Yesterday I went to the ER at Brackenridge to get a tetanus shot. (Interesting aside–I called a general practitioner’s office to ask if I should have [...]
Movies recently viewed:Y tu mamá
Movies recently viewed:
Y tu mamá también: very good on multiple levels.
Five Corners: written by the same guy who wrote Moonstruck (which had a great script), this is quite a bit darker and more surprising.
Ghost World: Very, very good in so many ways. Funny and kitschy and serious and sad.
Perhaps the best explanation of
Perhaps the best explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian situation I’ve seen.
I knew there was a
I knew there was a reason I used Macs, but I didn’t realize it was this: “Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism”. Those wacky creationists. I don’t know whether to burst out laughing or run screaming in terror.
