I have largely been using my LiveJournal page (stenz.livejournal.com) instead of this page as my journal. But I just finished something sufficiently dorky that it is likely better suited for here for a bit - then will later discuss it more in depth there and then also post up the source code to PerlMonks.

I have been trying to figure out how many possible game boards there are for the game Scrabble. It is a far from infinite number, but it is a huge ass number.

...put on sale?
Polyester Bride by Liz Phair (sp?)

She is a cutie.

I am starting to learn interesting things about fractal analysis of the stock market. Not the Brownian motion stuff fully, but along the same lines. geometric instead of cumulative sum stuff.

I created a live journal.

while I will still read slashdot, I will likely not keep a journal on here any more and instead do so on the live journal.

stenz.livejournal.com

I was going to the bathroom at work and I'm the first to admit that there are a few places where all of my good ideas come to me, and they are all when I'd otherwise be ragingly bored if my mind didn't wander the way it does:
1) college classes - I don't have those anymore, but those were great times for my mind to check out and think of other stuff
2) reading a book - this is unfortunate since it slows me down in actually reading the book when my mind wanders off
3) sitting on the t

http://www.keurig.com/two/index.asp

Those men and women that create that should be worshipped as gods. That is my new religion - we have one of those (the larger office version, not the personal addict version) in the office, as did my previous employer.

As a bonus, it is also apparently bad on the environment since the little K-cups aren't recyclable. They burn everything here anyway... well, not everything - witches they drown. But trash gets burned.

We know that HP, Coke, iTunes, WalMart (or was it KMart), MusicMatch, etc are trying to do online downloads of songs. You pay $N and then get N songs - instant gratification.

I went out and bought a 20gig iPod for my fiancee. Here it cost me $630. It comes with a 1 year warrantee on it, but since they have that known 18 month battery issue, I upgraded it to a 2 year warrantee for $90 more. Lots of money.
If she doesn't like it, I will sure as hell use it, but it isn't intended to be the type of gift where you get it for someone in the hopes that you will get to use it.

My head hurts, my heart is racing, I have to pee.
No it isn't love, but perhaps even better - I've ingested a whole bunch of coffee today.

I think I must have gotten rid of my caffeine mug that I got off of Thinkgeek when I moved here, so I no longer have that and am just using one of the ones here in the office.
I think I had at least 5 cups of coffee today.

I hate this feeling. I know it is in my head, the proverbial tip of the tongue moment. I hate the feeling.

I recall reading about a game that was posted on Slashdot within the past 2 years. It was less of a game than it is just a diversion - a relaxing one.
It used OpenGL and would take blocks and color them and then move them about in virtual 3D space and your movement would then influence how it behaved.

The fact that the only real dilemma in my life right now is that I want to get this phone, and regardless of the costs available to me, I can afford them all - this reminds me that my life is pretty damn easy. It is just a matter of whether I want to pay less and wait, or pay more and have it right now in my grubby little hands. Any complaints I have are pretty meaningless in my life right now. I am healthy, I live in a nice place, and I can afford everything that I need.