I went and saw the movie Burn After Reading this past weekend, and I absolutely loved it. Now, if you don’t go in for the slightly darker fare, you might not like this movie, but as someone who enjoys a “dark comedy” better than a “light comedy” (also fun, but “lighter” comedies don’t keep me [...]
It is currently 12:20am and I have my first exam of this semester in 8 hours and 40 minutes. It’s for my Data Structures CS class and covers the basics of C++ and touches a tiny bit on Vim and GCC, as well. Earlier this evening I was kinda freakin’ about this all since I [...]
Today has been eventful weatherwise here in Northern Indiana. Last night the remains of Hurricane Ike merged with a cold front while in the Ozark area and began picking up speed moving toward the northeast. By this afternoon the combined extra-tropical low (although my parents tell me that the air felt pretty warm, humid and [...]
2 weeks ago I found the wonderfulness that is The Online Comic Space Opera Schlock Mercenary (I believe I may have mentioned it at the time, filed under Cool Stuff) and began reading the 8-year, 3000+ comic archives. Tonight I found it necessary to stay up waaaaay past my bedtime and complete that reading of [...]
Over the last couple of hours it seems that a new inner eyewall has formed in Hurricane Ike that’s about 60% the size of the old eyewall. I wonder if this will translate into any higher winds…. Gotta go now. -j P.S. the NHC reports at 7pm EDT that winds are up a bit to [...]
Yesterday I was hit with a 100-ton Mac truck of a head cold, a result of general life stress (you may have figured out by now that I’m not the most low-key type person), the stress of the first 3 weeks of the fall semester, lack of sleep (gotta start getting more than a weekly [...]
I wrote the following two sentences from 7:30pm to just after 9pm during breaks in my evening CS class, some of the data is outdated now that the 11pm advisory is out, but I think it’s a cool “stream of conscience”/”live blogging” sort of thing, and I think some of the analysis is sound. In [...]
Fall is here, and I couldn’t be happier. Normally I don’t like to see the end of summer, but this year, for some reason, I feel different about the cooler weather arriving. Maybe that has something to do with the mini heat wave that we had here in Northern Indiana just before the cold fronts [...]
As I suggested might happen earlier this morning, Hurricane Ike’s refusal to turn toward the west-northwest (as predicted by both the model consensus and the NHC) and instead continue west has resulted in the storm’s center emerging back over water in the far northern Caribbean as seen on Cuban radar (it’s kind of hard to [...]
Well, I haven’t posted about Hurricane Ike in 4.3 days for reasons that can only be described as “laziness” and or “tiredness,” I’ll let you decide which. Anyway, the storm made landfall in eastern Cuba last night as a category 3 storm, the second major hurricane to make landfall in that country in as many [...]