A long day of coding…

You know you’ve spent too long that day writing code when you start working on a term paper and ending sentences with semi-colons instead of periods.

Tags: programming, writing

Navigating a Changing Universe

Something my wife and I were talking about the other day inspired me to think about navigating the cosmos. I don’t remember our conversation, but I do remember wondering
How can we travel to a star a million light years away if the universe is constantly expanding? It wouldn’t be there once we arrived!
Which led to […]

Gum

I’ve never liked gum. I did eat the stale pink stuff sticks that came in Topps baseball cards years ago, but since then…yuck.
Today I had a piece of my wife’s gum. Ick.
Chewing gum is like brushing your teeth for thirty minutes.

Tags: food, Humor

Bad Random Functions Redux

I had talked before about the random play function in my car stereo, particularly the playing of Arlington every time I drive past Arlington National Cemetery.
It happened AGAIN. This is the 5th time in a row. I haven’t heard the song, otherwise.

Tags: bugs, music, programming, random

2-D Arrays versus Structs

I had a situation the other day where I needed an array of two values and the thought occurred to me: which is better? A 2-D array or a 1-D array of structs. I decided to come up with a quick test to see.
Here are my results:
2-D Arrays : 55.9376 cycles/row
Structs […]