$ tail -f /var/log/optometrist
tail: /var/log/optometrist: No such file or directory
Just another way in which TWNU (The World’s Not UNIX; see also).
Tag: geeky
You know how, the first time you get a two-way videoconference going in iChat, something deep inside you compels both parties to act ridiculous?
Oh.
Maybe that’s just us, then.
So Jason gets a new job, and I have to hear about it from his blog. Bah.
Since I’m already elbows-deep in gnuplot, here’s a graph to explain what’s going on here:
Fig. 1. Cumulative distribution function of friends, co-workers, and acquaintances working at Google, as a function of time.
Update: Chris points out that my data collection has been sloppy, and that the graph above actually represents the function of friends who have gone (or will go) to work at either Google or Apple.
In honor of Link’s 20th birthday, here are some wallpapers for the Z520a I crudely slapped together: [main, front]. (For his 21st birthday: pictures of potions, naturally.)
Wikipedia may not be authoritative, but it sure is current:
On the January 12, 2006 episode of Jeopardy!, host Alex Trebek read an answer in which he quoted Sean Connery’s line “You’re the man now, dog!” from Finding Forrester. This reference, coupled with a reference to popular YTMND subject Leeroy Jenkins on a 2005 episode of the show, has led some to believe that Jeopardy!’s staff are fans of ytmnd.com, and the suspicion is supported by the aforementioned answer being in the “Easily imitated” category, potentially referring to the manner in which the original site was imitated soon after its conception.
So I’m grading some exams for the intro CS course. (Really just about a quarter of the exam, but even that took at least a couple of hours.) By the time I get to the end, I’m pretty annoyed that the exams aren’t sorted; I keep thinking, “wait, so-and-so had this same problem—how did I score it there?” Unfortunately, it’s a linear search every time (with some slight hints about how recently I’d graded that test, what color pen I used, etc).
Well, the next TA to look at these exams shouldn’t have to suffer this. “I’ll sort the tests,” I think. Simple, right? People alphabetize things all the time, right? No, I have to make it complicated.
I decide to implement physical quicksort.
(continued…)
