Never been one to let the carrier drop

Still climbing. Passed another milepost.. it read ‘Bhudda Dance’. 😉

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It’s all it takes

To change your life, to lose your place in time

Contact

Asleep or awake

Coming around you may wake up to find

Questions speak

Within your eyes

Now more than ever

You realize…

And then you sense a change..

And nothing feels the same

And all your dreams are strange

Love comes walking in

Some kind of alien

Reached for the opening

Simply pulls a string..

Another world, some other time

You lay your sanity on the line

Familiar faces, familiar sights

Reach back, remember with all your might

There she stands in her silken gown

The silver lights shining down..

And then you sense a change

And nothing feels the same

And all your dreams are strange

Love comes walking in

Some kind of alien

waits for the opening

simply pulls a string

love comes walking in..

Sleep and dream

That’s all I crave

I travel far across the milky way

To my master I’ve become a slave

’til we meet again

some other day..

And then you sense a change

And nothing feels the same

And all your dreams are strange

Love comes walking in

Some kind of alien

waits for the opening

simply pulls a string

love comes walking in..

I can not remember the last time I was this happy.

Christine’s depression never seems to end

Cause she’ll never be as skinny as the girls on friends

She’s got fat lips and thin lips, she’s jealous of a Q-tip

She’d take stupid over fat

She stuck her fingers down her throat for the very last time today

And she walked away..

Malcolm’s got his image, his rock and his glock

and if he lives to be 20 he will have beat the clock

he’s got his ride and his pride and girls by his side

He makes stands with his gun in his hand

He saw his best friend lying on a stainless steel tray

and he walked away..

and the destination’s clear

anywhere but here

(chorus)

Doesn’t  matter that you’re lying in the gutter

Doesn’t matter that your brain’s all cluttered

Doesn’t matter that you’re covered in scars

You’re never in the gutter with your eyes on the stars

So walk away from the boyfriend bruises

and the shame of the game that your brain knows you’re losing

and that job that you do it just robs you of who you can be when you’re free from this mentality

So you’re home by the phone getting stoned all alone with your chat room friends, your Korn and Ramones

but the phone don’t ring and Joey just sings ‘Sedated’ – you got to learn to hate it!

(repeat chorus)

Since memory and CPU are very nearly free, why don’t programs compiled in debug mode keep a copy of the entire stack & state so that it’s possible to step *backwards* from a breakpoint as well as forwards? It seems like this would be extremely useful especially in failed assertions..

So, I’m tempted to revisit my brute-force primefinder, now that I’ve discovered that I can buy time on a supercomputer* for next to nothing. I looked into Amazon’s EC2 cloud a couple of years ago for a project I was doing for a client, found it wasn’t a good fit, and then never really thought about it any more. However, recently I started a project for another client that *is* a good fit, and as a result I’ve been putting EC2 through it’s paces – and I can see that doing things like brute-force testing a large problem space for potential solutions to the p/q problem is something EC2 would be *very* good at. (Any problem that can be broken into small chunks and would therefore run well on a cluster). And, CPU on EC2 is relatively cheap. Storage and bandwidth cost money, but we don’t really need either of those.

I know – just what I needed, another pet project. 😉 [actually, revisiting an old one]

* = well, very large cluster anyway

So, here’s a list of movies that I *wish* were encoded on high res formats. Incidentally, this may also be a pretty good list of my favorite

1) Pump Up The Volume

2) Hackers

3) Who Framed Roger Rabbit

4) the Animatrix

5) Pink Floyd: Delicate sound of thunder

6) U2: Rattle & Hum

7) The mind’s eye series. (I know, this would be a major undertaking since they were originally rendered for NTSC and would have to be rerendered)

8) Groove

This didn’t actually take me that long to figure out, but I can easily see how it could take someone a while, so I thought I’d include a code snippet for the benefit of our Googling friends:

URL url = new URL(“http://whatever”);
URLConnection urc = url.openConnection();

urc.setRequestProperty(“header”,”header-value”);
urc.connect();

InputStream in = urc.getInputStream();

http://www.geeks.com/pix/2009/900M.html.

Granted, I already have one tiny laptop I don’t use very often (it’s a P-II).. and I’m trying to not make too many frivilous purchases.. so I probably won’t be getting one, at least not in the next few months. But, I drool..

A unusually well written overview of query optimization and indexing in mysql – http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=377652.

Has anyone seen a much more hairy, technical article on the subject of indexes in mysql?

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