Project Amadeus day 2

Posted February 21st, 2012 in General by Bill

6:33am, checked in project Amadeus.

Ruby is frustrating, but is automagical.

I see your little threat email, I reserve the right to write a proper response when I get time, you little fucking bitch. Watch out, watch out.

I saw this meme and it made me laugh a bit…

Posted February 19th, 2012 in General by Bill

That’s all.

Why Beats by Dr. Dre sucks

Posted February 17th, 2012 in General by Bill

Beats by Dre seems to be the latest hype with headphones. But I think it sucks, why?

  1. It needs batteries. It does not work without batteries
  2. It breaks easily, the body feels like flimsy plastic
  3. They are really expensive for what they are worth
  4. Those who are using Beats by Dr. Dre are using their iPods, and the sound quality sucks!

Personally, for my bass needs I have a pair of Sony MDR-XB700, I can feel my ear drums vibrate by the bass generated by these. Also, on the side I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 PROs for my flat responses, and passive noise cancelling needs.

Both of covers my needs for bass and studio quality sounds, each was cheaper than the Beats. Both does not require batteries. And my HD280s has gone to hell and back. I am looking forward to the HD380s soon! And when I get my own place post University, I am picking a pair of HD800 and the PS1000s, with separate DAC, and AMP, running on redundant pure sine wave filtered PSU.

Just a few observations that I have had from the past 4 years

Posted February 17th, 2012 in General by Bill

I am currently in my 4th year at university majoring in Computer Science, as of writing this post I am taking my last 2 computer science courses that I need in order to graduate.

I started school, I went through the first year classes, I did coop, I found jobs, I did assignments, midterms, and finals, I didn’t sleep for days so I can finish my assigned work. So as an undergrad, I have “been there and back.” Now I am going to admit that I don’t like school, I will probably never like it, I don’t have a good study habit, nor do I really care about some of the subjects that I am learning. The only two reasons that I am in it is because of my parents, and personal satisfaction. (Well actually a Masters would be my personal satisfaction, but that will be another time.) Why do I not care? because there are no space on my resume left for education, so on my resume, I am listed as “college drop out”. Regardless, I still get my fair share of job offers and interviews based on my previous experience.

Recently I was involved with the freshmen of 2015/2016  at the University of Waterloo. I had my first hand observing a group of new incoming students. I have to say that you will not be able to have an enjoyable 4 years of school:

  1. If you can’t handle 5 courses or if going to university is too stressful, and you need time off
  2. If you can’t get the faculty policy minimum average in your first year. (This is where you should be getting high 80% to high 90% to boost your 4th year average)
  3. If you can’t study, don’t know how to study, or just don’t study
  4. If you are doing a major because your parents/friends/peer pressure/for the money
  5. If you can’t do examinations. University is course is usually a midterm, a final, and a couple of assignments (<=20%). So a heavy emphasis on the exams
  6. If you don’t have good time management skills

Now to computer science majors:

  1. If you are not interested with code
  2. If you can’t translate the theory to actual code
  3. If you can’t transfer code from one place into another by reading it, understand it, and learning it

Alright, time to get back to the gym

Posted February 15th, 2012 in General by Bill

Alright, time to go get back to the gym and get ripped again.

Hello Lifeline Fitness at Sun Life

Daily intake:

  • 6 meals, spaced 3 hours apart, with 3 being snack supplements, and 3 being high protein based meals.
  • 190 grams of fast acting protein, 60 grams of slow releasing protein.
  • Vitamin A, B, C, E, K
  • Fish oil with Omega 3 fatty acid
  • Nutrient supplement
  • 10 grams of fibre
  • 1 portion of VegeGreens
  • On the go keratin supplement

Plan:

  • Daily abdominal exercises
  • Daily cardiovascular exercise
  • 48 hour round robin exercise on muscle groups
Schedule:
  • 8 hours of sleep
  • 5 am: get up, glass of water, get the metabolism running, [Protein shake]
  • 6 am: get to gym
  • 9 am: breakfast [Protein shake]
  • 12 pm: lunch
  • 3 pm: snack [Fruits and proteins based snack]
  • 6 pm: dinner
  • 9 pm: snack [Fruits and proteins]
  • 11 pm: snack and bed [Fruits and proteins based snack]

Goal:

  • Eating fucking healthy again, to the point my parents bitching at me about eating too healthy, never thought you would hear this one (By the end of this Saturday)
  • Getting back to the point of where I was, before school started (1.5 months)
  • Lose the additional fat gained from school (6 weeks)
  • Tone muscles
  • Gain mass

Ky, Suggestions?

Not sure if college students are getting lazier or UW Food Services is fucking stupid

Posted February 15th, 2012 in General by Bill

All bottle size the same

Coke in Village 1 Cafeteria: $2.00 and change, before tax

Coke on campus (10 meters away from V1) from vending machines: $2.00

Fuze Refresh in Village 1 Cafeteria: $3.25 (?), before tax

Fuze Refresh on campus (10 meters away from V1) from vending machines: $3.00

Is there something I’m not getting, like some sort of secret hidden tax return that dictates I can get extra if I use on campus meal plans?

Seriously, what the hell is a Lagrangian?

Posted February 9th, 2012 in General by Bill

Seriously, what the hell is a Lagrangian?

What the hell is a Lagrangian? What kind of voodoo math is this?

 

Seriously?

Posted February 8th, 2012 in General by Bill

After 4 years of University I:

  1. Integrated equations longer than my hand
  2. Wrote a compiler, assembler, and linker
  3. Wrote a basic operating system
  4. Did graph theory and proved things that I still don’t understand today
  5. Worked at jobs that required highest security clearances
  6. Seen things that I want to unseen
  7. …. and this… Click

What the fuck? I didn’t know BIOL 139 was a synonym for grade 9 health class.

Ruby on Rails

Posted February 4th, 2012 in General by Bill

I was introduced to Ruby on Rails recently by a few classmates, last night I was playing around with rails, boy oh boy, I must say, prototyping in Rails is fast and sufficient. Although I am faced with a transition of the syntax. I’m a C styled syntax person. Coding in ruby ought be fun.

Desire2Learn sucks, continued

Posted February 4th, 2012 in General by Bill

YOU ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT? Yes, this user may not have said which post, but at least UWACE appended the course name to the email.

More reasons why D2L sucks hairy monkey nuts.