Life in the geek lane

random ramblings.....

2.3.02

arrr, im a nerd... Its friday night and im at home, with my ibook and cocoa programming book.. and to be quite honest absolutly loving it! *burp*
I get more productve at night, i dunno why, i think maybe cause i get a little tired and start to ramble, which in some way makes me do more. mmmm ill have to think about that.
Got an email from my phd supervisor giving me a run down oh what his impression of my phd will be, it looks find cool... im looking forward to it, sure there will be times when it is boring and a pain in the arse, but the benefits far out weight the bad points.

mmmmm

1.3.02

yay!, Its friday... two days off to do what i want *thinks i usually do what i want anyway* mmmm, i think ill get into the cocoa programming stuff this weekend, its cool. I also have to do my phd application and get it in asap.
Feeling pretty good, very motivated... its cool
I think i need to update my mp3 collection, its kinda getting to be annoying instead of enjoyable.

*yawn* - a bit tired, but ive got too much cool stuff to do!

28.2.02

dum di doooh dah..
mmmm,. sitting at work, trying to fix a cold fusion bug, sheesh, bloody web server is set to american date format and cold fusion is chucking a hit when i try to format it correctly for australian... mmmm
Ordered a book off the web this morning about cocoa programming after hebba recommended it. mmm, ive also been reading the oreily "Learning Cocoa" book, which is better then i thought it would be.
Im lookin forward to coding a few OS X apps ive got stored away in my head... mmm

oh well, better work.. only about 1.5 hours to go...

27.2.02

*yawn* Well im back in townsville again, seven hours of driving is oh soooo much fun :P
As usual spent the whole time thinking... and pondering, and singing like an idiot to all my cds.
At one stage i got a bit sleepy so i pulled up in the middle of nowhere and had a bit of a chat to the cows... they didnt seem very friendly... mmmm
Got lots of little rhymes and poems in my head, gotta try to remember them and write them down... damn...
Sooooo, i should be up here for another 10 days or so, then i head back, gotta fill out my phd application form and get that in ASAP... LOTS TO DO... mmm, its gotta be in before next week, the ultimate plan is to be able to go to WWDC again, missed it last year, but went the year before and it ROCKS!!...
whew... *tired*

that will do for now...

26.2.02

*rush rush rush* sheesh, you have really slow days and then all of a sudden everything has to be done at once... damn... oh well it will sort itself out somehow. Got my car serviced and cost me $250!!, but i guess its going good... mmm thinking about doing my PHD, sooo much shit to do for it... but i wanna do it so i will go through the whole process, will be a bit hard being in townsville, but ill have to deal with that. Head back up there tomorrow.. for a few weeks more (hopefully), i really wanna get back to rockhampton and get stabilised again... mmmm

oh well...

25.2.02

Life, Love, Pain - stories for the soul

Every story begining must have and end, without it the next story cannot start. Each story has chapters that must be finished before the next can be started, without finishing these chapters the whole story does not make sense. Skipping chapters just means that the next chapter makes no sense, and you end up having to go all the way back to make sense of it.

Finish each story before starting the next. Whenever there is and ending, a brand new story is just around the corner. Dont be afraid to close the book, as the next one is sure to be better......

ok here it is:

Take a grid (computer screen) say of 1024 pixels by 768 pixels (786432 pixels total) with a color depth of 16bit (65535 colors).
Now... If you raise 786432 to the power of 65535 you get some really big frikken number, but this is also the toal number of images that you can view on the described screen. Wouldnt it be possible to write a program that will automatically cycle through each of these combinations, and in theory it should display pictures of everything. If you think about how many pictures can display on a screen, it is pretty much anything.. So in that large number of pictures is a picture of everyones face, everyones house, everything!, and of course lots of screens of mumbo jumbo..

mmm, *ponders*, would this friggen work!?
mmm, read somthing kinda cool this morning... but i left it at home and now i cant remember the details ... grrrrrr, oh well ill add it later. At the moment im sitting at 'work', typing a few emails and stuff out, not doing a great deal...


*yawn*
Amazing things happen at predetermind stages of our lives, for no reason, fired off by what seems like unrelated events. Its these things that make us take a look and realise somthing about ourselves in a way we have never seen before. Realising these things starts off the firing of other seeminly unrelated events, yet overall the whole thing is staged and already predetermined.

mmmm *ponders*

24.2.02

Been trying to update my dodgy webpage, but havnt been going that well. Im finding myself just copying other peoples web-pages, but i dont wanna do that.. grrrrrr

I guess i just have to wait for the idea to hit me and go with it... arrrrrrrrrr..

mmmm *burp*
mmm, got up late today, Had to call my mum, its her birthday, my phone here has STD calls cut off due to a slight problem LOL, so i had to message my mum to call me back :)

Feeling really weird... all groggy in the head, i think its because i slept in late, i usually get a headache if i sleep in, which is weird, mmm, will have to sleep early tonight.

mmm, feel like playing a game, mmmm

*yawn*