Leo's Blog

Questions

LK — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

Inspired by this Abstruse Goose comic, here’s an idea for people who like to complete superficial questionnaires on the internet: how about write a list questions that you would like to see answered? Sample questions:

Can robots be conscious?
Why won’t she go out with me?
Why would the Death Star, the gigantic mobile space station that can destroy planets, have an opportune unobstructed exhaust shaft going to it’s core allowing a single missile to blow up the whole thing?

As you can see it is unequivocally buckets of fun. This could also be done at regular intervals, say, once a week, depending on what is on one’s mind at the time.

Additionally, it’s Friday the 13th! Anything unlucky happen to anyone?

It was a shame about the roadblock

LK — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:25:03 +0000

..until they opened it up twenty years ago, that is.

Everyone should watch The Lives of Others and Good Bye, Lenin!

http://tinysong.com/84t7

Memory madness

LK — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:56:24 +0000

In January when I built my computer I got only 2 x 2 GB sticks of this memory, figuring if I needed more later I could always buy it, probably at a cheaper price. Astonishingly though, it did not get cheaper in the 10 months since. Quite the opposite - it cost somewhere around $70 when I got it but the price kept rising and has now hit $106! This despite the rising value of the Canadian dollar. I don’t understand why this is happening in an industry where prices drop by the day, especially when other components are continuing to drop in price. For instance, had waited until today to get my CPU, I would have saved nearly $100.

Of course, now that I’ve decided I need more (since starting working with After Effects), I am limited to one particular model of RAM (matching my current sticks) whose price is more than I’m willing to pay. Why?!

A Flowchart

LK — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:46:48 +0000

A flowchart, AKA Leo tries drawing predictable comic.

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Illness

LK — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:23:29 +0000

I am trying to give the weblog another go.. again.. like so many people. You are lame for reading this. However I have discovered that someone writing a seemingly more serious blog actually found and linked to one of my rare posts to back up his opinion.. creepy.

I am sick and it’s not the swine which is lame - I don’t wan’t to get sick twice. Staying home is boring and lonely and creates masses of schoolwork to catch up on..

Viking Really-Longsword and more

LK — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:13:34 +0000

The Viking Really-Longsword was a dreaded weapon during a siege.

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Scanner problems

LK — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:38:36 +0000

Spent quite a bit of time tying to get my scanner to work with Windows 7. I actually got to the point where Windows was fooled into thinking the scanner was working although it wasn’t. I could keep hammering away at it, or back to the old PC…

Luck…

LK — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:14:35 +0000

Apparently Richard is really lucky in Lexulous.

Green Screen

LK — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:10:35 +0000

I now have a green screen, by far the coolest film-related thing I have acquired. Consisting of a wooden frame, green fabric, and 1500W of lighting, this will make it possible for me place actors in front of another background. The wood was the most expensive part, and it was probably possible to do without it.

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The Great Auk

LK — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:15:48 +0000

“The great auk, a flightless Newfoundland bird, disappeared in the nineteenth century.”

This is from English class when we were learning about appositive phrases. (”a flightless Newfoundland bird” is the appositive phrase there, for your information.)

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