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I am sitting here, reading about Steve Jobs, watching videos, viewing tributes. I am immensely sad. And I think to myself, “Why?! Why is this so painful for me?! I didn’t ever interact with him, and he sure didn’t know me! Why am I so affected by this? ———- I was busy with school and hadn’t heard about his passing until my wife mentioned something about “my hero” on facebook. At first, I was a little put off by the word . . . → Read More: Confessions of a fanboy Today I hit 5 million points earned for Folding@Home. It’s a distributed computing project run by Stanford that is working to research how proteins work in diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many cancers. Proteins fold up in order to become a certain shape that allows them to perform specific functions in the body. And when they do not fold correctly, they can cause disease. So whenever I’m not playing games on the graphics card and . . . → Read More: 5 Million The little brother is going to get a PhD. This ruins everything. EDIT 10:50 a.m. Dec. 15: Be sure to read this for background. EDIT 1:40 p.m. 12/16/2011: Awesome comments over at the wife’s blog, which is way more famous than mine. Includes this gem from anonymous, who presumably is my mother: “I remember this exact conversation when you were 5 and Braden was 3. I had asked you to read a list of words for someone and you . . . → Read More: Going to get a PhD Whereas recent and frankly obnoxious intra-room conflicts have arisen regarding the temperature of the room; the reading of the thermostat, and it’s functionality; the state and usability of manual digits, specifically of the females present; the frequency and intensity of air conditioning and, unsurprisingly, the disturbing fact of its unwillingness to be regulated; the number of layers of clothing required to achieve a comfortable body temperature; and the various fluctuations in office temperature that create conditions varyingly described as “freezing,” . . . → Read More: Temperatures, surroundings and perceptions: A consideration of the complaints So I sold an item on eBay. Or rather, someone, somewhere, won the bidding process. eBay sent me an e-mail within a few hours saying that the user had been removed from eBay for fraudulent activity and that I should not ship the item. Of course I had not shipped the item. I am not dumb. But Shaun Roy thinks I am. Shaun Roy spent all morning trying to convince me that he had won my item and that it . . . → Read More: You have got a cash It is long past time to upgrade the cooling on my heavily overclocked pc. My Q9300 is running at 3.5ghz, and when folding proteins at 95% load, temps reach 70 degrees C. So I bought this. The Themaltake Frio. Obviously much larger than the Xigmatek 92mm model I had been using. It has seen lost of use and lots of dust. But unfortunately the Frio does not use the same attachment method as my old cooler. You can . . . → Read More: Operation Cooldown, phase I |
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