News on Teh Block
That’s right, I just said ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’. Because that’s what cool people do.
So, as far as news is concerned… I’ve begun the arduous journey of cleaning my room. Not because I want to, but so we can get some carpet upstairs and hopefully scourge this house of the last remaining poor-quality flooring (ie. plywood!). So far I’ve managed to remove 3 large pieces of furniture from my room; however, I’ve left all the stuff in them on the floor, so not much progress there. I’ve discovered just how many books I have on programming and computers as well! They’re basically all the same as well, “Learn C in 24 Hours!”, “C++ Demystified”, “The Art of C”. Yes, programming is my other hobby.
Since I have to clean my room, I’ve decided to destroy my piggy bank (in a stylish way, of course) to get at the money:
I had $57.93 in assorted change in there. The one thing we forgot when filming this is that it’s the middle of June in Arizona. And it’s concrete. And metal change. So when we did finally break it, Mr. Forbes ran off to the house and left me stranded trying to pick up very, very hot change off some very, very hot concrete. Darn you, Mr. Forbes! Needless to say, I managed to rescue most of the money. When you put that with the other $17.50 I found on my desk when I moved all the crap off it, you get about $74.39 in change. Now, add in the other $50 I got for my birthday and the other bills laying around, I almost have enough to get one of these:
http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=763
Which would be, of course, incredibly awesome-o.
Several more things. Tomorrow the robotics club (did I mention I’m an officer in the local robotics club?) hosts the second session of it’s 3rd Annual Summer Robotics Camps! w00t (that’s a word now!)! Thirteen kids are signed up and it should be plenty of fun. Also, … goddangit, I can never remember what I was gonna talk about… oh, yea, random numbers! What fun. I just started randomly thinking about (pseudo)random number generation algorithms. Wikipedia (oh, great God among us) mentioned a simple well known algorithm:
where m is the maximum numbers the function can create. Ahh, gotta love recursion! I also though about the distributions of random number generators (that’s a long phrase, I’m gonna use RNG now). Here’s a good Delphi article on it:
http://logicalgenetics.com/showarticle.php?topic_id=893
Wouldn’t it be neat to have a RNG that randomly generates a distribution first, then attempts to follow that distribution? Pretty stupid idea, huh?
That’s it. Bye.
EDIT: more stuff:
Looks like Steven and Thomas hacked and installed the Homebrew Channel on Thomas’s Wii! yay! Also, I forgot to mention the NERDS were mentioned (myself included :^P ) in the SV Herald, seen here:
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2008/06/20/news/doc485b64a8cc769314620007.txt
Now that’s it. Bye. Again.
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