Zzz: July 3, 2008

Trivial Observations on the Nature of Time

I can't do anything in the past because it's already happened.

I can't do anything in the future because it hasn't happened yet.

I have similar observations on the nature of space, but David Simpson said it better.

Another Tedious Excursion into Vainglory

It occurred to me while debugging yet another problem that only manifests in an optimized build that my facility at deciphering assembly language depends to some extent on doing arithmetic in my head, and also having trained myself to read hexadecimal and start counting at 0 in high school. It can be awfully handy to immediately know that mov %ebx,0x10(%edx) is equivalent to somestruct.field5 = whateverexpr.

<-- -->

Peaches and nectarines are in season, so I made a point of picking up a bunch of them at the Mountain View farmer's market on Sunday. They're not very calorie-dense, and if I were to use them as my sole snackage I would need to haul an impracticable mass of them to work every day, so I've been augmenting them with cookies or whatever's in the vending machine.

Previous Entry Index Next Entry