The Robot's Thoughts

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I told Jon to clean something (a dish I got as a Christmas gift) and he actually did it.
Perhaps he's not a total asshole, and just lazy.
Still, it says something when you have to threaten someone just to keep their word.
Welcome to the George Bush America.

I talked to an orthopedic specialist about my wrists, and he says that I'm really not showing any serious signs of RSI and/or carpal tunnel syndrome. He recommended that I get wrist braces to immobolized my wrist if I'm going to be typing for several hours (aka working), and get ergronomic wrist pads with which to rest my wrists. He says your wrist should be in the same posture as holding a coke can. A neutral, normal position.
So naturally I spent some of my hard earned cash on this kind of stuff.

Ironically, they only had left handed wrist braces, so I've only got one. But I got a gel pad for my mouse and one for my keyboard. Let's hope they actually do something.

Also, I bought "I love America" temporary tattoos. Stay tuned!

OS X.3 uses very aggressive caching in its I/O subsystem. The result is that my AAC import speed has jumped from 2.4 to 3.3 simply because I upgraded my RAM a week or two ago!

I know I'm nowhere near close to a top of the line Dual G5 server. And I've had some ambitious upgrade plans. I think because of how much money is going to be spent with respect to relocating, paying off my credit card, and paying Pitt, I'm probably going to scale my upgrade plans down to something a bit more feasible financially, and something a bit more modest. Realistically something like a 700 or 800MHz G4, and a Radeon 9000 AGP or a NVIDIA GeForce 4.

Eh, this is probably boring everyone. Peace.

This is something i've started running at work, now that I have a beefy enough CPU to actually make a dent in the kind of workload they have.
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project trying to research protein folding. When proteins misfold, you end up with diseases like Mad Cow, or memories like Regan's.
So if you've got the CPU cycles to spare, give it a shot. It helps science.

My computer at home is too slow to do this and make any difference. And I'm using all my cycles right now to compile an AIM bot.

I was wearing my scrubs today, and was totally enjoying their comfort. I remembered thinking, "I wish I could wear these all the time. If only I had another pair."

Well, I had another pair, but I gave it away. To Abby.
And that thought led to "I miss Abby."

So I guess I said it. I think its stupid that we're not talking. I was worried for her, despite knowing she's a big girl and can handle herself. And my blog post about it all was flying off the handle.

I can't and don't want to be the pillar of stability my entire life. It seems to mediocre to be that stoic.

So here goes nothing:

Abby, if you're reading this, I assume some part of you still considers me a friend. If you miss me, call me sometime and we'll hang out like old times.

And if you're not reading this, just know that I wish you luck at Chatham and hope you find happiness and success with all that you do. I mean that.

I'm having wrist pain. Bad enough to seek medical advice on what to do. I'm thinking that I've got minor carpal tunnel syndrome -- and I know its only going to get worse. My wrists are my livihood. I need them for programming.
I might have to get fMRIs, and I don't have health insurance.
It kinda freaks me out. Not the fMRIs. The thought that I'm going to be crippled or in need of surgery (where success isn't guarenteed) right when I get out of college and get started on a career.
No doubt you'll all be updated.
If i can type.

New Jersey has about as many good drivers as it does clean beaches.
Couple that with the blantant fact that most people don't really improve at driving. You're either reckless or less reckless. In a bind, few people know enough about physics and how their car works to avoid an accident (if it is indeed really a bind).
And then all that really matters is if you're an organ donor or not.
Doctors can save up to 7 people with your organs if they do CPR until you reach tissue harvesting.