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Nuclear Power 101 | ScottLog
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January 11, 2009. 8212; numist @ 8:57 am. So, my grandfather (stepmom’s side) was a nuclear engineer before his current job as a retiree. He earned his Ph.D in nuclear physics from MIT, got a 4.0, did a lot of work for GE — and the world. He’s a smart fellow and he’s done things. It’s great to ask him about how these things work, since they’re not very well understood by the public, and nuclear physics is not something I’m going to learn in my degree program to be a computer guy. K: Because it’s dangerous.
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Quick Story: How The Past Can Haunt You | ScottLog
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November 10, 2008. Quick Story: How The Past Can Haunt You. 8212; numist @ 7:18 pm. Sometime last year I was at Lolita’s, alone, eating Carne Asada fries. For those of you not in the San Diego crew, this means that I was really. Hung over, I’d been awake for no more than an hour, and it was around 1:30 in the afternoon. You know, early. As I’m eating, this huge. 8220;I LOVE THAT GAME! So let’s not forget how hung over I am. I have no idea. Shirt from when I worked at Treyarch. Do I know you? Rock on, man...
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October | 2008 | ScottLog
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October 30, 2008. Why Do We Procrastinate? 8212; numist @ 2:53 pm. It occurred to me last night, failing to sleep due to an earlier nap gone wrong, that I use procrastination in a way that differs from most people: without it, I’d never pass any classes. Let me expalin: (I’m going to leave that typo right there.). So I quickly failed out of school. The projects are piling up, and just like in 2002 no matter how I try to spruce it up and rationalize, it boils down to a lack of discipline. damn. Let’...
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Old-Fashioned Fool | ScottLog
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November 18, 2008. 8212; numist @ 12:28 pm. And I repeated this a few times over the next month. She’d been recognizing me as well, and from then on, my food (Meat Lover’s Skillet, eggs easy over, sourdough toast) would be cooking before I’d finished parking, and we’d have a good chat while I ate. In some way, the spell was broken. I’ll be back again, but it really feels like an important chapter in my life has ended with the remodel of a Denny’s out in the middle of nowhere. 1 Comment ». You are comment...
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September | 2008 | ScottLog
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September 15, 2008. Managing Your Own Mail: Part 2, Stupid Recipe Tricks and Sending Mail. 8212; numist @ 7:02 pm. So, if you were following the previous article, you now have mail on your server, but you’re still sending it the Old Way. Let’s fix that. In this post you’ll have recipes for rewriting From: headers, marking incoming messages as read, and sending mail for multiple accounts through your server based on the From: header of the message. September 11, 2008. Job Fairs Are A Sham. First, a story.
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Why You Should Minimize Your Program’s Memory Usage | ScottLog
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November 8, 2008. Why You Should Minimize Your Program’s Memory Usage. 8212; numist @ 7:42 pm. Because one day, one of your users will have a problem where their motherboard’s memory controller quietly corrupts their memory, but only for certain addresses. I’m not going to be very active online for a while. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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April | 2009 | ScottLog
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April 17, 2009. Marriage is such a Foreign Thing. 8212; numist @ 8:54 pm. Cindy and I have been thinking a lot about marriage in the recent months, and it’s good to see other people with similar thoughts. My own parents, when I tried to spell out the thought process behind our UnWedding, were understandably confused. “Why not just get married? 8221; my mother asked me. Maybe it’s a result of the decline of family values? It’s tough to say. But one thing is for sure: Traditional American marriage.
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March | 2009 | ScottLog
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March 15, 2009. Using Language as a Crutch: Can’ts, Haves, and Needs. 8212; numist @ 7:14 pm. Consider the phrases: “I can’t do that.” or “I have to do this.”. Yes you can. No you don’t. These are nothing more than crutches of language. What someone is saying when they claim that they can’t do something is that they won’t. Likewise there is nothing you have. To work so you will have money, so you can sleep on a bed. You want. So eating and breathing are reasonable expectations, but not actually needs....
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November | 2008 | ScottLog
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November 23, 2008. The World, It Is A-Changin’. 8212; numist @ 9:26 am. As with most things, neither of us were really in the right, and we both admit that today. For my part (in hindsight) I was a. And would go above and beyond the call of my character flaws to just cause trouble in protest. This reconciliation has happened recently, and I’m really looking forward to getting to know my mom as a person and not as “the oppressor”. It’s got me thinking though. Is this why people “grow apart”? As you all kn...
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More Support for the Correlation Between Wisdom and Age | ScottLog
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November 21, 2008. More Support for the Correlation Between Wisdom and Age. 8212; numist @ 9:42 am. When I was 10, it was very easy to shop for gifts for me. Clothes and LEGO. Clothes are always a good gift for a growing kid. They’re going to need them anyways, and you might even manage to appear “cool”, or at least not “lame” if you pick something that resonates with them. Buying good gifts for an adult (especially a geek) is hard. Gift is something you never expected that managed to improve your life i...
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