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Project Euler

My friend Eric, who is currently sitting over there —-> and playing the PS3 Folklore Demo (warning: if you have trouble collecting souls in Folklore with the PS3 Sixaxis then your controller might be hung… turn it [The controller] off and back on — took us a lot of frustrating jerking the controller around to figure that out) turned me on to the website Project Euler, which is a math/programming challenge site. The problems are mid-level problems that generally require clever tricks rather than any deep esoteric knowledge to solve quickly and effectively. The problems get progressively harder, taking from a few minutes to a few hours to solve depending on what you get stuck on.

It looks to be a good tool for learning or polishing your skills in a given language. Eric is using it to learn python, and I’m brushing up my perl as a result. It’s a noticeable improvement in just a handful of days.

Right now I’ve solved about 60 (out of a growing 171) of the problems. My account is here if you want to check up… it’s taken me a few weeks of spare time to get there, but it’s still addicting.

Anyone else up for the challenge?

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Recent Eventses

I finally got back to Las Vegas, but it was for a conference, so most of my time there coudln’t be spent on the normal debauchery… I did get to see The Great Paul in Second City, and there was mild debauching with the teradata conference… pics are here:
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Also, Happy Birthday to Katie, Dianne, Karen, and anyone else from Angela’s extended family that had a birthday in the last week!
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Ubuntu Upgrade, Websites Back Up

So I upgraded Ubuntu yesterday… from 5.04 to 5.10 to 6.06 to 6.10 to 7.04, or whatever it was. (Hoary, Breezy, Dapper, Edgy, Feisty — sounds like a weird Disney character sheet). Everything was fine until the 7.04 upgrade, where php stopped working. Not really sure what happened; I fiddled with the configs for an hour or so, but what finally fixed it was removing a duplicate (new) link in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. The upgrade added a 000-default symbolic link that duplicated the 1.default link previously installed. I acutally ended up removing both of them and renaming the default config file to chiplynch.com (yeah, I know, but it’s better than “default”). This may have unintended consequences later, but for now it’s fixed my problem.

Of course, I get to go through this again in a few days when 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”)(!) comes out.

Sorry for the downtime — I know you missed me!

Romeo’s Brush with Fame

So, I leave my parrot with a lady at “Wings over America”, or “Wings over the Rainbow”, depending on who you ask (same place, two names. Weird). Anyway, the bird lady occasionally goes to bird-trade-shows and fund-raisers and such. This past weekend she went up to the Columbus zoo and took Romeo, who got to play with Jack Hanna! At least, that’s what I’m told — I haven’t managed to pick up any pictures of the event, largely since I wasn’t there — but I’m told he held Romeo and I’m sure they’ve bonded and become life-long friends. I expect my birdie to be on his Christmas list any year now.

Too (Im)Mature for a Lawn

So, I bought a leaf-blower from a local guy on craigslist today. Seeing as how I have a yard that’s covered almost entirely by very large trees and it’s coming up on fall, this would seem like a nice normal adult thing to do. Obviously if that makes sense to you then you don’t know me, which kind of makes me wonder why you’re reading this, but that is neither here nor there.

You see, in fifth grade, I’d managed to save up enough to buy a used electrolux vacuum cleaner. No, I wasn’t planning for a future career (or even lifestyle) surrounding cleaning… I was going to build a hovercraft. I had plans, I had classmates involved in the project, and I had a vacuum, which was what fifth-graders used to make hovercrafts back in the 80s. Except that I didn’t have the vacuum, I just had the money for it, and I managed to find a store that would sell me one. Trouble was, being 10ish, I needed someone to drive me to the store. That’s where the plan caved in — see, I hadn’t really TOLD my parents that I was building the frictionless people-mover of tomorrow and asking for a ride is when they found out.

For some reason, which remains a mystery to me to this day, they didn’t approve, and the project that I’d been planning for weeks got nixed in moments. I’m confident to this day that this is why I’ve never had the attention to plan a world-takeover.

Anyway, where was I? Right… leaf-blower. Kory came home the other day proclaiming that he was going to build a hovercraft, for school, because that was the project he was assigned. He even managed to produce written proof. Great teachers they have these days. Of course, I think the teacher has something in mind that would fit in a backpack, at least unassembled, but that’s their short-sightedness. They should have sent home some pre-screening questionnaire for the sanity levels of their students’ guardians. Silly teachers.

Of course, this will probably all fall apart again — all I have now is the raw materials and a willing kid, and a school assignment… I’ll keep you posted. Worst case, of course, I’ll be able to blow the half-ton of leaves that’s going to hit my yard in the next couple of months into little piles or, better, into the neighbor’s yard. Hopefully noone will buy the house next door before winter.

Wish Kory and I luck.