I found something interesting on the first day of my Intro to Fourier Analysis, in my lecture notes (the notes are actually part of a book that Dr. Howell is writing).

These lecture notes are copyrighted according to current copyright laws, and, as they say, “all rights reserved.” Any attempt to reproduce these notes for personal profit and without the author’s permission will be found rather amusing.¹

¹ CRC Press may bee less amused. They have an expert on copyright law enforcement. His name is “Spike.”

ArsTechnica has a great geek discussion going on in their forum: What’s the most powerful spaceship?

My vote, taken from the forum: an overclocked X-wing fighter.

It’s official, Netscape sucks. And not just the annoying-periodically sucking, the huge-archnemesis-crappy-browser sucking. And it can officially bite me. Really. I want it to die a slow and horrid death. That would make me feel much better right now.

Welcome to the sorrows of a web geek. But once I beat Netscape into submission, I’ll have a cool new design for astrogeek.net. Then all will be good, and life can go on. Until I get pissed off at Netscape again.

3ric-kun, teme yarukika? Link highlighting ga suki ja nai… baka yaro!

Something Awful, one of my favorite sites, now has MP3s! Wander over and take a listen.

In the immortal words of Jeff K, “THEYRE FAGOTS!!1”

I love
Kobun. AKA “Servbots.”
Kobun are those adorable, lovable, servient, well-meaning, intelligent, yet completely vacant little lego-men looking robots that serve the equally cute villianess Tron Bonne, in the whole Megaman Legends timeline.
(and also make a cameo appearance in Marvel Vs. Capcom 2…)

Well, turns out that Capcom of Japan’s “Fan Store” is now selling a whole range of Kobun-based Fan goods..
Unfortunately, they don’t ship out of the country, and I am unhappily broke regardless.
But mine own country of residence and misbegotten financial state aside, they’re just lovely little items that are, in all likelihood, the next best thing to actually having one of the little guys.

I’ve just finished reading “When True Night Falls“, by C.S. Friedman. It’s the second novel in the Coldfire Trilogy; sequel to “Black Sun Rising“, and I finished it in a grand total of four days. I’ll go so far as to say that this book is one of the primary causes of my current insomniac zombielike state.

I highly recommend the entire Trilogy to anyone who is a fan of Fantasy or Science Fiction; these books comprise the best of the genre. For more information, check out Merentha.org, the official C.S. Friedman fan site.

Well, I’m here at LinuxWorld in San Jose. It’s very odd – this place has so much of a Comdex-marketroid-brainless-boothbabe feel to it that it’s a bit disturbing. But that’s ok. I am getting some swag, but limiting myself to what I can take on a plane. =] And, I don’t need more tshirts. Gosh knows I have plenty.

PS: Continental Airlines can officially BITE ME. Nothing like running through Houston International, getting from gate B60 to C27 in 15 minutes. Grrrrr.

Son of Update!

I’ve gone through and fixed a few more things, such as the vertical alignment on subpages (like the About page). I corrected the way internal pages open, so the links in the System box now open in the main window. I’ve also changed the php script to serve up dynamically-generated pages. Now, when you click the links in the System, Archives, and Music boxes, you’re sending a query to the server, which serves up different center boxes based on your query. How cool is that?

When Atari Ireland closed, Andy “obtained” about four filing cabinets worth of documents, scanned them, and placed them online, just for you.