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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
10:42 pm	blagh went 1-3 at club again dropping me out of 1st. i think i'm done writing about club for a while, it's just gonna be the same i suck because i don't study crap. i: - chickened out on KELLY and almost tried KELTY# - let ANTRAS* go - challenged LADER - missed PULSANT - tried SHOGGER* so i'm done complaining about the same old stuff again.. should make most ppl happy! gonna go learn the dictionary now. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
3:37 pm	aerolith, note mostly to self dammit, i have to rewrite another chunk of aerolith because the database access is too slow. before i was just loading all the words into memory and doing the quizzes that way on the server (this is the way it's being done on the currently running server right now). but if i want to expand to multiple lexica then i should access quizzes thru a database. so i did that on my own working copy, and now it sometimes takes too long to load each set of 50 questions. so i should have a thread that gets data from the database so that the server doesn't freeze every time someone starts a new quiz. if i want to grow aerolith this latency will cause more problems. memory-based vs disk-access based.. this seems to be a dilemma everyone faces. if aerolith gets REALLY big, wouldn't it make sense to go back to memory-based access to decrease latency overall? argh. any suggestions welcome. i'm fine with doing memory-based access if it was just a server and a client, but i'd like to develop a stand-alone version so people can quiz without an internet connection. i basically ALREADY have one of these if people wanna spend the extra time figuring it out, but the new version will make it easier. it's just much more elegant to have several lexicon databases and have it work that way. but perhaps if aerolith gets big enough i'll have to get back to memory-based, or some sort of hybrid. sqlite kind of sucks. while worrying about all of this i realized that i'm going to do terrible at dayton if i don't cram like hell, so i started studying ~15,000 bingos again. if i am disciplined enough i should be done within about two weeks, and that'll give me a couple more to study the 4s and 5s again plus top 6s. wish me luck... (7 Comments |Comment on this)
3:27 pm	biden stop being an idiot (Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
3:42 pm	lol ah, the "liberal" CNN corporate shills, making us afraid of having Canada's healthcare system: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/06/canadian.health.care.system/index.html?eref=rss_topstories what about the stories of the millions of people in the USA who don't even get that surgery, or have to choose which finger to keep when they have an accident, or ___ (fill in the blank with horrible for-profit health insurance company story). if that woman had lived in the USA and not had a good job with good health insurance (and this is a big IF, because health insurance companies will use any reason to deny care), she could have been dropped for something like not declaring that she had ACNE as a pre-existing health condition, or like many millions of americans she would have had to pony up for the surgery anyway. the canadian system may not be perfect but it tries to take care of its people, and with more doctors and health care professionals, the better it will be. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
10:45 pm	now i've gone and done it and registered for TETRAHYDROFURAN - AEFHRRRTU. boy, i sure can't wait for DORSOVENTRALITY - EILORRSTV! (8 Comments |Comment on this)
9:19 am	dammit i actually wanted to go to this jftsoi tournament, what with all the scrabble talk on cgp/lj/twitter/etc, but i totally slept through or turned off my alarm in my sleep. :( (Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
11:20 pm	number of combinations with blank does anyone know how to calculate the number of ways to pull a word like TRAINEE out of a full bag, *including blanks*? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
11:21 am	scrabble break not going to club tonight (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
3:09 am	asdasdaskdkasd moving is such a pain in the ass . i'm almost done but unpacking is gonna take like another week... (Comment on this)
Monday, June 29th, 2009
1:01 pm	go zelaya solidarity (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
1:55 pm	awww poor dempsey (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
3:31 am	aAaAaaaaaaAaaA sdasdadasadsdsadasdasdasdasdasdasdasdas (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
12:58 am	look what i just found while sorting thru stuff to throw away... OLD scoresheets! there really is not much point to keeping this other than memory sake.. i guess i could but there's really not much to learn from them. here is my campbell game vs conrad from may 2006!! NOW NOW http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=4026#0 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
10:55 pm	well that was dogshit for more reasons than just going 1-3 tonight. 1) vs opponent number 1: none / PLUMaGE / L 330-337. ARGh. i thought i was gonna win this, but i mistracked and blew the endgame because after retracking i didn't have enough time. 2) vs opponent number 2: PANNIERS / ABVOlTS / W 392-389. i barely won this, and only because my opp messed up in the endgame. i tried EQUITAGE*, apparently combining EQUIPAGE and ECOTAGE.. horrible word knowledge nowadays. 3) vs opponent number 3: DiAPHONE SUDARIUM / TOAsTER YOGURTS / L 403-441. he bingoes with YOGURTS/O(GIVE) after i set it up for him. then at the end i have adiorsu and there's one in the bag, and i have a 3/8 chance of picking residua or sudaria but i would probably still lose. i also saw the possibility of sudarium to a M, and then i immediately realized if i fished off the O i would of course draw a second U, since that's the kind of crap i've been drawing all night, so i went ahead and that's just what happened (and he'd just bingoed so it was a 1/8 chance anyway). 4) vs opponent number 4: none / GIaOURS GRODIEsT AERATING DIASTOME* / L 314-499. what an embarrassing phony to let go, i did hold for a bit but i think i was too demoralized and then i "remembered" that ATOMISED had an anagram. i'm gonna get lit up like a candle in dayton unless i go on a studying rampage this month. and that's IF i decide to ever play competitive scrabble again. why? well, one of my opponents is a goddamned cheater. this person made a three-tile play, and on one of the few moves that i wasn't closely watching them like a hawk, because they've been known to do this, i hear a weird "click" and i instinctively look over and there are three tiles on the rack. notice they just made a three-tile play. there are no other tiles around. the click was almost certainly them dumping a crappy tile in the bag, and they've been caught doing this precise thing before! i had a couple of seconds in which to react, but i was so shocked i didn't say anything and was pissed off for the rest of the game. i then decided i wouldn't come to club again as long as this person came, and started thinking what if other people do this? what if i have to watch EVERYONE like a hawk in dayton? i already LOATHE playing this person just because i have to watch them all game, i can't concentrate on my own, and it's a pain in the ass. anyway, alan told me he won't match me up with this person anymore. it ruined my whole night and i partly played like crap because of that. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
1:01 pm	man oh man trying to watch soccer game while working. spain is bombarding the us, and the us is leading 2-0!!! (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
1:34 pm	clutch say what you will about the US soccer team, that was clutch. they lost their first two games 3-0 and 3-1, and needed to not only score at least 3 goals against egypt but for brazil to also kill italy. brazil beats italy 3-0, the us beats egypt 3-0, and they're in the confederations cup semifinal! next opponent - spain, which is currently number 1 in the fifa rankings and has won their last 15 games in a row. (and has not lost their last 35 games). you know what? i think spain will choke again. they're the kings of choking. watch tomorrow at 11:25 PT. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
1:22 pm	study since nationals of last year, where i vowed i would learn all the words, i have: - gone through all the 7s once through, for a few seconds each (total ~30 hours?) - that's it??? i can't average more than 5 minutes a day of study!? if someone can teach me to stop caring about a million other things please let me know. right now my new project is to build a MIDI sequencer from scratch. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
2:43 am	i should be sleeping but then i saw the awesome new xkcd comic and i decided that i'd never calculated my Erdös number. i've co-written one paper, while doing summer research at Cornell in 2003, and it'll probably be my only one unless i venture back into academia: http://en.scientificcommons.org/40916167 one of my co-authors, Mark Campbell, is a prof at Cornell that has co-written a whole bunch of papers, indeed I was working on a satellite proposal at work recently and while looking up papers bumped into one that he had co-written.. i shot him an email to see if he remembered me and if he was interested in working with us on the satellite proposal as a consultant - he directed me to another Cornell guy who is now our team member (and was extremely helpful). should we hopefully win it i'll be in charge of building a miniature satellite. woohoo! but i digress... i searched for Mark Campbell in that same scientific commons website and started searching for his co-authors by name on this awesome site that allows you to compute your Erdös number: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html Finally I bumped into Uy-Loi Ly, who has a Erdös number of 4, which gives Mark an Erdös number of 5, which gives me an Erdös number of at most 6! Unfortunately, I haven't been in any movies, but my girlfriend has a couple-second-long appearance when she was like 9, as an extra in Fearless (1993), also starring Jeff Bridges, who has a Bacon number of 2. (She got like 80 bucks for it). So her Bacon number is 3. Now, I'm almost positive she's co-authored a paper, and as soon as I find out which prof her co-author was, I'm computing her Erdős–Bacon number. There's not that many people in the world that have one of these. My new goal is to obtain an Erdős–Bacon number. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
2:11 am	lol cesar: Turn 11 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O tim ------- 295 ------------------------------ -> cesar VILLDPP 381 1|= ' U ' =| --Tracking----------------------------------- 2| - " D " - | YZIDSEIOARTGLMORST 18 3| - F O H - | 4|' - G N O N C E '| 5| m A U | 6| " O B I W E B | 7| ' R O J O ' L | 8|= ' A T W I T C H I E R| 9| ' I A V U ' N | 10| " n " E " I D | 11| E F A R S A E | 12|' - R A X K I T E '| 13| - E G O ' A N - | 14| - M N Y E N E| 15|= ' E S Q U A T| ------------------------------ Tim just played 14N NE 8A VILLA is the only move that has a POSITIVE (>0) equity, something like ~12, everything else is negative, and it basically would have cost me the game if he'd found his winning outplay!!! i don't look forward to the day when everyone is awesome at scrabble and we're playing for thousands of dollars because it'll all be luck then. i'm only half serious. lmao.. this is too funny. after he bingoes with SOLDIERS we have the following: cesar: Turn 12 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O tim ILORTYZ 369 ------------------------------ -> cesar GAMTDPP 408 1|= ' U ' =| --Tracking----------------------------------- 2| - " D " - | ILORTYZ 7 3| - F O H - | 4|' - G N O N C E '| 5| m A U | 6| " S O B I W E B | 7| O R O J O ' L | 8|V I L L A T W I T C H I E R| 9| D I A V U ' N | 10| " I n " E " I D | 11| E E F A R S A E | 12|' R - R A X K I T E '| 13| S E G O ' A N - | 14| - M N Y E N E| 15|= ' E S Q U A T| ------------------------------ and i play 12A GARM*. there's probably a lot of ways to win this, but i'm pretty sure that's not one of them. the more hilarious thing about GARM* is that after he does DOZY 2H i set him up with a perfect outplay of TR(A)IL. can i register for div 3? (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
2:37 pm	i know it's brazil and italy but 1-3 and 0-3.. come on usa invest more in your soccer team (1 Comment |Comment on this)