http://nebupookins.net/ Nebu Pookins personal blog. en-us nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:03:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/982488838 Saw good jazz trio last night. The drummer had a surprisingly large variety of sounds for just 1 snare, 1 tom, 1 ride, 1 crash, 1 kick. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/982488838 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:21:11 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/981501286 OMFG HFS. "Nu Nu" by "Avishai Cohen" Album "Continuo". If I iTunes could give 6 stars, this is THE song I'd give it to. Latin Jazz Heaven. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/981501286 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:41:05 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/973048462 @mtbk_tokyo ありがとう！ [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/973048462 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:54:24 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=417 One of the annoying things about being autistic is that I am compelled to categorize things. In my specific case, my obsession seems to be ensuring that all my mp3 files are tagged properly. While the merely neurotypical may be satisfied with song name and artist (and many NTs probably don't even care enough to tag that much), I try to also get the album artist (which may differ from the track artist), the date of release (not just the year), the current track number, the total track number of the album, the current disc number, and total number of discs, and the BPM. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=417 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:03:36 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/971741994 Today, I actually managed to read and understand The Least 100 Sec. I didn't pass it, but I could read it, at least. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/971741994 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:39:30 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/969553701 @msanford I'm at Inbox 241, and that's only counting the unread stuff! [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/969553701 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:16:21 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/966882947 All of 古川もとあき's songs sound the same: Listen to "Get Ready", "Music Break", "One More Time", "Captain's Voyage" and "アノヒノカゼ". [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/966882947 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:11:17 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/966881466 @mtbk_tokyo what does it mean when Japanese people put many "w"s? Example: "DCポータブルwwwwwwwwwww" [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/966881466 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:09:43 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/966879403 @mtbk_tokyo Paradiddleはdrum techniqueです。http://tinyurl.com/66hurv 僕はdrummerです。http://tinyurl.com/5wbser [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/966879403 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:07:36 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=416 Read part 1 first. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=416 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:41:42 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=415 I get home and I realize my whole room is re-arranged (and now that I'm awake I realize that the room in my dream is not my current room, but one of the rooms in the house when I lived on Roselyn). I used to have this pretty huge beige desk with two LCDs for my computer, and now it was this little kid's white desk with a single LCD. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=415 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:59:34 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/929395472 I tried to put my phone in my pocket, and then I realized I wasn't wearing any pants, so my phone fell on the floor. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/929395472 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:38:46 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/926213514 I really regret not practicing my paradiddle now. I need to be 3 times faster to play ラルクアンシエル 自由への招待。 [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/926213514 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:08:03 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/921547772 One good iPhone feature: Plays a tone when the other party hangs up. Great for people with poor etiquette who forget to say 'bye'. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/921547772 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:05:37 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/908482620 "Sons of the empire" by "Xang" uses the same samples as "Drop out" from DDR: "One Magazine!" [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/908482620 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:57:21 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=414 A while ago, I wrote about how I was considering killing myself. People responded to that post. I had started writing a response to their responses, answering the questions that were raised and all that... but I never finished writing that response. My reply was too long, and I didn't have the energy to write it all down. I probably still have that unfinished reply stored somewhere on this computer. I feel a bit guilty about having never posted my response, because it felt like I was just ignoring all the people who bothered to write to me. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=414 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:27:50 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=413 Back when I was doing telemarketing, there was this girl who helped me get the job. I’ve completely forgotten her name now, unfortunately. Anyway, one day at the job, I got pissed for some reason I didn’t remember, and I went on the lunch break, we went to this restaurant in China town, and I took the tea-cup that they use in China town, and I was kinda twirling it around my finger noisily. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=413 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:55:32 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/899462866 @mtbk_tokyo 「UNICODE」です。Maybe I should have written 「ユニコード」。Encoding to represent non-ロマジcharactersです。 [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/899462866 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:00:55 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/896967367 Made a change to the way my blog handles ユニコド, so this is a test tweet to make sure it's all still working. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/896967367 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:52:20 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/896185574 I'm super pissed off, because iTunes 7.7.1.11 corrupted my mp3s. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/896185574 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:13:30 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/894660585 With the 140 char limit, Twitter really doesn't encourage quoting passages from web pages and commenting or expanding upon the ideas there. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/894660585 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:02 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/888909189 I am not a doctor, but you're probably eating too much pasta if your urine smells like Alfredo sauce. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/888909189 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:14:30 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/885964903 @mtbk_tokyo perhaps, but the reason I am worried about AI is that it is the name of a friend of mine. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/885964903 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:18:22 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/885944035 @ringdingbing an actuary calculates the probability of bad stuff happening. You got to be good at stats. If you hate math, wrong job. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/885944035 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:55:02 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/885937685 I just received spam from a "Ms. Sanford". I hope it's merely coincidence and not smarter AI/data collection. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/885937685 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:48:11 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/884492089 Enterprise vs hobbyist programming: working on a project that will be thrown away in a year, because its replacement is not ready yet. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/884492089 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:33:52 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=412 I've been reading this book called "What is the name of this book?" and it has inspired me to come up with this riddle: Suppose you have two buttons, labeled "A" and "B", and you know that pressing one button will release something bad (e.g. anthrax) and pressing the other button will release something good (e.g. a million dollars). Furthermore, each button has an inscription on it, and you know that exactly one of the two inscriptions is true. The inscription on "A" is "This button does not release something good" The inscription on "B" is "Exactly one of the two inscriptions are true." If one must press exactly one button, can one figured out which button one should press to release something good? [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=412 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:19:22 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=411 I used to think that people who felt Microsoft was “evil”, or that Microsoft took pleasure in fucking people over were abnormally stupid. Microsoft is a corporation. It’s not a sentient being. It doesn’t feel pleasure. When I say these people were stupid, I really do mean “stupid” and not “ignorant”: If they were merely ignorant, then after I educated them, they’d no longer be making this dumb mistake. But they keep making it. They have this emotional attachment to the idea that Microsoft is evil, and they refuse to consider rational arguments. I’m trying to make this blog post short, so I won’t get into my arguments why Microsoft is not evil (not anymore evil than any other corporations, or even not anymore than the concepts of “gravity” or “thermonal dynamics”, at least), but if you want to try to work it out for yourself, I recommend you read up on: the Buddhist concept of “dharma” or “nature”; Joel Bakan’s “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=411 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:53:06 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/880666724 Learning the 音 and 訓 readings in isolation is too difficult. It's much easier to memorize that 天子 is tenshi and 犬子 is inuko. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/880666724 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:25:21 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/873212858 Sorry that my RSS feed broke. I didn't know the Japanese was corrupting it. Also for not tweeting lately. Twitteriffic crashes on my iPhone. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/873212858 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:15:34 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=410 I went to the Otakuthon Anime convention, and goofed around on at the DDR section. Me being who I am, I immediately tried to find the hardest song, and start off right away with it. The song was called "Pluto" or something like that, and I failed miserably. Despite this, this guy came up to me and started chatting with me. He asked me if I wanted to try the other mix of Pluto which is on this game. I asked him if it's harder or easier than this song, and he told me it depends. The mix I played had a lot of freezes which, if you didn't know the song, could really throw you off. If you know both songs well, though, then the other mix was harder. So I agreed, and we tried the other song, and he wasn't kidding. It had like 16th beat streams at 400BPM. Crazy. I tried the first mix of Pluto again, just to see if I could remember where all the tempo freezes were, and I got further, but still failed. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=410 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:04:50 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862770509 @mtbk_tokyo ポードカストは「Comedy Central Stand Up」とコミヂャンのなまえは「Blair Butler」です。 [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862770509 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:02:27 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862250541 My grammar is horrible: お母さん新しいSHOESお買え、でも小さいです。足痛い。Mom bought me new shoes, but they are too small. My feet hurt. http://twitpic.com/4l69 [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862250541 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:43:46 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862206844 @mtbk_tokyo そう、PS3のグラフィックはきれいです。 [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862206844 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:41:25 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862201299 I spoke too soon. The PS3 is still broken. Couldn't get pass the first save point in MGS4 without crashing. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862201299 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:34:00 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862041357 @msanford show up around 2PM. I won't know if the others show up until they actually do. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862041357 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:18:51 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862013898 @mtbk_tokyo すみません:iPhoneにコピペわかりません。I don't know how to paste link on iPhone. まっておください、あっとでにします。please wait, I will post it soon. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862013898 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:49:03 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862010419 @mtbk_tokyo 僕think夏is almost over、でも僕のたもだちbelieves it will continue. It was あつい、then cold. He thinks the cycle will continue, but not me. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/862010419 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:45:35 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/861420543 Finally, my PS3 is fixed. Playing MGS4. 楽しいですか？ [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/861420543 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:49:06 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860874180 Comedy central stand up podcast: it's sad when a commercial for a bank is funnier than the main content of the comedian. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860874180 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:35:23 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860174421 Loader @mtbk_tokyo おやすみ. You had me confused because I didn't know you could insert 少し inside of あとで like that. ありがとう for teaching me! [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860174421 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:55:19 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860121339 @mtbk_tokyo even with かな, you can represent a syllable in 1 to 3 chars rather than 1 to 7 chars. Compare "through" with 「とるー」. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860121339 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:47:00 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860060167 あなた も 十二時? Actually, I am trying to sleep earlier, but むずかしです. It'd be better if I didn't need to sleep at all! [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/860060167 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:34:16 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859507594 When I said "porn forum", clearly, I was referring to Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ewqjz [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859507594 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:00:43 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859483795 The EULA for a porn torrent forum: "you agree not to post any vulgar or obscene content." [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859483795 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:25:38 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859471792 It's amazing how much more semantic content you can squeeze into a日本語tweet vs an English one.Way to go, ideograms!1-3 char per word vs 3-10. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859471792 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:07:48 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859394341 @msanford bought new mouse 9 days ago: old one broke after years of use. The new one broke within 30 minutes. Arguing with cust. service. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859394341 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:23:28 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859148573 @mtbk_tokyo it was, での いま 「あした」 です。it's "tommorow" now. 何時にねるしますか？what time do you go to sleep? 僕は十二条。for me, it's around midnight. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/859148573 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:35:08 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858584962 @mtbk_tokyo そう です: いま これ は ばん です。ありがとう ございます for you help. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858584962 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:05:02 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858465970 @msanford care to give me a hint what the other songs might be, or were you planning on testing my improv? [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858465970 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:01:24 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858464256 @msanford post video of your improve, please. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858464256 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:59:06 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858462170 @ana360 こちらこそ。よろしく おねがい します。 [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858462170 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:55:39 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858458951 @mtbk_tokyo ありがとう、でも I think I added too many. I will need to remove those who are using kanji that is too advanced for me. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/858458951 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:50:59 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/857668876 Wonders if subscribing to a bunch of 日本語 twitted feeds and trying to figure out what's being said is a good way to learn. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/857668876 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:01:20 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/856787677 Got more things done today than in the last 2 years. Thank you, David Allen. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/856787677 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:32:16 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/856703112 Got a new iPhone and a new phone number. Call me to find out my new number. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/856703112 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:52:03 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/845344253 Learning Java3D. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/845344253 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:23:14 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/842858636 Okay, now I'm writing a song in 23/16 and it's a boss battle for an RPG. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/842858636 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:14:11 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/834823455 I'm writing a song in 13/8 that doesn't sound like shit. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/834823455 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:25:55 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/830144017 I've been unable to update my blog, Facebook, etc. because I've been too busy in Quebec City. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/830144017 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:47:07 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=409 I’ve just had this recurring dream. I think I’ve had it something like 3 to 5 times before, and the last time I had it may have been over 2 years ago. But perhaps this sensation of having had this dream before, this sensation of déjà vu, is an illusion, and this is the first time I’ve had the dream. This is one of the reasons I blog about dreams, BTW: to verify whether my memories about having had these dreams before is accurate or not. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=409 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:48:35 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=408 Over the last 6 months or so, I’ve been contemplating killing myself. I’m not contemplating it so much anymore. I didn’t tell anyone about this until today, so as far as I know, no one knew I was thinking of killing myself. Sometimes I felt like commenting on the notion of suicide itself, merely from an analytical or philosophical point of view, but I didn’t want to let anyone actually know I was thinking of committing suicide, and I especially did not want to make it a public confession e.g. on my blog. When people do that, they’re not really trying to commit suicide, but rather are trying to get sympathy and stuff. A cry for help. I didn’t want help. I didn’t want to talk about it with anyone. I didn’t want to make people worry about me, and try to talk to me and cheer me up and all that stuff. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=408 Fri, 30 May 2008 07:31:06 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/822217529 I will gradually thank each person for their birthday wishes individually. I haven't been able to keep up 'cause I've been super busy. Sorry [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/822217529 Wed, 28 May 2008 22:39:38 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/819376894 Don't you hate it when you get toothpaste in your eye and it burns, but also has this minty refreshing sensation? [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/819376894 Sun, 25 May 2008 00:47:41 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/818744391 When I said Super Smash Bro Melee sucks, I meant Brawl. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/818744391 Fri, 23 May 2008 22:03:43 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/818712118 Wow, Super Smash Bro Melee really sucks. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/818712118 Fri, 23 May 2008 21:00:00 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/815050065 Even with Twitter, I can't be bothered up update once a day. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/815050065 Mon, 19 May 2008 11:20:08 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/809680148 I guess it's not, as long as someone can read each post in isolation and appreciate it without needing to read the others to get it. Whoops. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/809680148 Mon, 12 May 2008 16:53:04 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/809678982 Is it "cheating" to break up a Twitter post into two posts to circumvent the 140 character limit? [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/809678982 Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:25 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/809678624 Spent the weekend porting my site from PHP4 to PHP5. And my Patrick said I'm not as geeky as I used to be back in high school. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/809678624 Mon, 12 May 2008 16:50:57 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=407 Earlier, I twittered: "Is it still called a placebo if the main effect is to trick the person administering the medication, rather than the person receiving it?". The specific scenario I was thinking of are aphrodisiacs: a company may market a particular substance as being an aphrodisiac despite the fact that that substance has absolutely zero effect on one's libido. However, you may believe in the power of this substance, and administer it (perhaps secretly) to some target. You falsely assume that the target's libido has been raised, and thus become more aggressive and self-confident, making advances you might not normally dared have made otherwise. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=407 Sat, 10 May 2008 21:50:20 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=406 The Boltzmann Paradox isn't really a paradox (in my opinion), but more of an argument for solipsism: It starts off by talking about the probability of a single self-aware brain forming in the universe (let's call this probability P(brain)). Then, it points out that from a naive inspection of the world around us, there seems to be at least 6 billion self-aware brains in the universe, and perhaps much, much more than that. It then compares the probability of there truly being billions of self-aware brain versus the probability that there is only a single brain merely hallucinating the existence of billions of other brains, and finds the latter to be of much higher probability. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=406 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:47:30 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/808049339 @msanford Brand new HD so no "quick format". BTW, I'm reticent of twitter-usage where you speak directly to someone. I'd rather IM [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/808049339 Sat, 10 May 2008 10:32:25 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/807744945 It takes a really long time to format a 1TB drive. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/807744945 Fri, 09 May 2008 22:16:36 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/807458658 may have Histrionic personality disorder. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/807458658 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:43:07 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/807387260 Is it still called a placebo if the main effect is to trick the person administering the medication, rather than the person receiving it? [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/807387260 Fri, 09 May 2008 12:03:39 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/806556194 Saw girl in metro drawing an extremely detailed sketch in pencil. Probably took her more than 8 hours. Does Twitter support posting pics? [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/806556194 Thu, 08 May 2008 12:32:33 +0000 http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/805633337 I am considering watching "Expelled". [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://twitter.com/NebuPookins/statuses/805633337 Thu, 08 May 2008 11:34:52 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=405 Inspiration hit me today while I was riding in the subway, and I decided to get into a little rap battle. I improvised two passes. When I got to a computer, I tried to remember exactly what I said and wrote it down, and so some of the stuff I said doesn't even make sense. But I couldn't help but do a little editing, 'cause I couldn't remember all the exact words I used. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=405 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:21:02 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=404 I'm in some sort of hotel, and there's a buffet, but the food really sucks. The sushi in the buffet was bad enough that I spat it back out into the garbage. There's watermelon, but it tastes like saw dusts, etc. The ice cream seems okay, though. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=404 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:21:10 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=403 Okay, so I'm having some dream (I forget the details of that dream exactly), but my alarm clock rings (in real life), so my meta-dream is that my dream suddenly stops, and then it's as if my dream was some sort of full screen application, but when the alarm rang, the dream sort of went into windowed mode, and then the folder beneath it, which contained the executable from which the dream was running disappeared. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=403 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:16:57 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=402 Yesterday, while I was walking through the Concordia EV building, a girl in a tutu stopped me and asked me to rub sand paper on her while she danced. She was kind of cute, so I agreed to do it. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=402 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:22:27 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=401 This post contains adult material. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=401 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:13:23 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=400 (This conversation is from memory, so if there are any errors in the Japanese, it's probably my fault and not Yuri's.) [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=400 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:07:09 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=399 A buddy of mine wrote a blog post on the history of video game consoles, and asks for predictions on the next gen. What'll happen after the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox360? I hinted a bit at the future in an earlier post, but I'll make some explicit predictions here. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=399 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:01:15 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=398 GamerHelp has posted "The 8 Most Popular Gaming New Year's Resolution", and I wonder how they determined the "Most Popular" part. All of their resolutions are either complete shit, or something a typical gamer already does anyway. Here's each of their resolutions, and my criticism of them. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=398 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:32:39 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=397 I consider myself to be untrained, uninitiated, inexperienced, etc. in the domain of business analysis. If someone went to school for this kind of stuff (do university courses exist for this topic?), then I'd presume they know more of the theory, and have done more practical exercises than I have in analyzing the future viability of various corporations. But on public forums, where lay-people are arguing about whether Linux will kill Microsoft, or Google will kill Microsoft, etc., boy, is there ever a lack of insight. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=397 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:52:24 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=396 Another topic I've been feeling indignation over was Buddhism. Specifically, the behaviour of saying "Buddhism is such and such", or "Buddhists are like this". Some guy (Buddha) said something, some people heard him say that something, had their own interpretations of what he said, repeated something which was a mixture of what Buddha actually said, and their own interpretation of what he had said to other people, and these other people repeated that process to yet other people, and so on. This happens in most religions, and even happens in other disciplines (philosophy, science, art, economics, etc.) where precise, formal semantics and terminology isn't followed (and so therefore I believe this "reinterpretation" stuff doesn't happen very often in mathematics, but it does happen in computer science!). [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=396 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:32:08 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=395 I've been feeling some indignation over several diverse topics these last few months, but didn't say anything about them, 'cause it's petty. But I need some filler material for my blog. So here's a rap battle between Lotto and B-Rabbit in Eminem's 8 Mile movie. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=395 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:13:09 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=394 There's this article on Wired arguing that scientist should rename the "Theory of Evolution" to the "Law of Evolution". The arguments are basically that the advocates of creationism and intelligent design are playing language games with the disconnect between the scientific term "theory" and the laypersons' term "theory". [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=394 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:38:13 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=393 This long time Linux user posted his first experience with Windows XP, and it's interesting in that I find it very honest, and not hostile. Here's my response to his post [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=393 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:55:28 +0000 http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=392 So this person (I think it's a woman) says the best way to defuse a racist joke is to pretend you don't get it. [...] nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) http://www.nebupookins.net/entry.php5?id=392 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:00:57 +0000