- Installs Wine to play Hearthstone.
- Made a gif for a project.
- Double clicked gif to see how it turned out.
- gif opened in IE under Wine.
Life’s Update
I’ve been working on a few things:
- Position-based fluids for my CS5643 class, which is a pain to debug. Normally, I have tons of intuition on what numbers are suppose to be but my intuition is nil here. I’m unsure as we’re guessing the correct parameters or even the right formulas and procedure.It’s a great class, just the project are incredibly tedious. For example, my particles right now just seem to float of into the x direction and stay there. Why would it do that?
Hopefully, what ends up happening is something like the following, except less pretty.
- I finally installed Hearthstone for my Elementary OS Linux box. It was incredibly easy following this tutorial.
- In terms of research, I’ve been reading up on different ways to generate the Krylov basis for GMRES as described in this paper. I’ll probably write up and refined the old “idiot’s guide” again for this paper information (and fix the bad latex in there).
- This soundtrack (not allowed to embed).
- My card handeling has suffered :(.
Love’s Philosophy
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
My Professorship
Looks like I’m a professor at Brock University now… Link
Fun with PIL
After installing Python(x,y), I’ve decided to play around with the various modules and applications packaged. The IDE that came with the package (Spyder) is surprisingly useful and feature-rich, which is helping me immensely with visualizing data from my work (in conjunction with the packaged matplotlib). Just yesterday, I’ve decided to dip my hands into the imaging library (PIL) and see what features it has by making a Adele-esque album cover.
I took an old photo of mine, cropped my face out, and placed it on a transparent background using Photoshop. Next, I cropped out Adele’s hand from the album and saved that as a separate image.
Now using PIL, I was able to copy my head and Adele’s hand onto a new image, rotate the said image, and add text to it. It was surprisingly… easy.
Code here.
Why Brighten cried today
Rough translation: my mommy let me sleep a little longer this morning, but didn’t wake me up before she left. When I woke up, I cried. I also called my mom a ton of times.
Why?
It has been almost 4 years since President Obama has been in office, and the birthers has mostly subsided. But this morning, WFSU reported some crazy Florida raising the issue once again.
According to WFSU:
Klayman [a conservative legal activist] said the president is not a natural-born citizen because his father was not a U.S. citizen.
I guess Mr. Klayman doesn’t believe that Thomas Jefferson is a US citizen seeing that his mother was born in London.
Why Mr. Klayman? Why?
J. Crew
In my effort to be more well-dressed, I decided to go to J. Crew yesterday and spend some of my money. Thing is, there is no J. Crew in Tallahassee.
“No problem! I can just buy this stuff at Cornell. After all, all Ivy Leagues MUST have some sort of J. Crew by it!”
Apparently I am wrong. The closest J. Crew around Cornell is over an hour away. Lets compare that to the other Ivy Leagues (according to Google Maps):
- Brown: 7 minutes away
- Harvard: 10 minutes away
- Princeton: right across the street. (“I have never seen so many J. Crew in my life” – Hellogoodbye)
- UPenn: 10 minutes away
- Yale: 6 minutes away
- Columbia: 12 minutes
I hearby pronounce that Cornell and Dartmouth (~1 hour) officially not part of the Ivy League conference.
The Great Leader’s Secret Plan
We all know that North Korea is pretty messed up. Plucked straight from a 50’s Cold War film, and dropped in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, the country is in shambles compared to its neighbors. It’s no surprise that the “UN’s representative in Pyongyang says about half the country’s children are stunted from malnutrition” (What is surprising though is Kim Jong-un admitting that fact).
What the world doesn’t know is that the North Koreans is preparing for the dark future; a future predicted by Lycerius. By starving its citizens now, the North Koreans has accelerated human evolution. Eventually, the North Koreans will all be more diminutive, and needing less food. In the future of the world covered by swampland, North Koreans will reign supreme in this new world. They have plenty of time to develop the technology, or just steal/share the technology from/with China.
It’s a perfect, cynical plan.
Airplane Conversation
Me: so who are you going to Vegas with?
Him: actually funny story. My buddy just turned 21 and he bought tickets for his girlfriend and himself, but they broke up 2 days ago. So basically I got a free ticket here.
Me: haha, so you are a rebound brofriend?
Him: well, I am gay hahaha
Me: hahaha etc.
Uber-cool