August 2006 Archives
HPF is the root of all evil
Sun Aug 13 14:45:19 CST 2006
One of the guys in the office here is working on some code written in HPF. I had forgotten just how evil it was. I am considering being a nice guy and helping him rewrite it to use MPI.
A quote from the Mountain Goats is in my head:
And I dreamed
of a camera
looking out from inside the television
and the aperture yawning and blinking
and the headstones climbed up the hill
of a camera
looking out from inside the television
and the aperture yawning and blinking
and the headstones climbed up the hill
If you haven't heard of the Mountain Goats you should have a listen. You can find them on the Internet Archive.
Arts grant application
Sat Aug 12 20:09:01 CST 2006
I am applying for an arts grant from the Queensland government to implement an unusual kind of robot. The paperwork is mostly
done, I'm just waiting on a quote for 3 x 40' shipping containers and 4 paintball guns. Hopefully that should give you some
idea of the flavour of the project :)
Diary resumed
Sat Aug 12 16:22:20 CST 2006
Well, ladies and gentlemen of the aether-network, I'm going to try this blogging thing once more.
This blog is using NanoBlogger, which is a neat
little tool which uses shell scripts to create a static weblog. That way this page can live happily
on the rather antiquated webserver here at Physics.