taxman
I spent the majority of last week doing our taxes and working on my thesis. I got the taxes done, and am now maybe 50% done with the thesis.
That stupid thing is proving to be a exercise in futility because my adviser is out of the country. He said, "it will work out, because you can just email me your thesis document as you work on it, and I will read it and provide feedback from Scotland".
Yeah, that sounds like a great plan, if you answer your email. If you don't it's just me writing and babbling on, not sure if what I'm doing is even close to what is expected, so I'm flying pretty blind right now, and loving it.
During the week, we had a typical Aubrey breakdown due to math. It is a subject that he consistently does poorly in, not because he doesn't have the ability, but merely because he doesn't like it, and therefore doesn't put in the effort. During the outbreak of frustration, he mentions something about how Nostrdomus predicted the end of the world soon, and I laughed out loud.
It just so happened that I had been downloading episodes of Penn & Teller's showtime show - BS!, which I love. I love The Amazing Randi and anyone who can easily call out the idiots who claim to have extrasensory powers that any sane person knows they cannot. (I will have to say that I was a little disappointed that Penn went on that Dancing show, but whatever).
So I just so happened to have the episode titled "The End of the World", which addresses all the nutjobs who "predicted" the end of the world, including Nostrodomus. It also has much about how people "prepare" for living in the nuclear fallout / aftermath, which is great.
So anyway, since it's a cable show, it's got lot's of gratuitous swearing, so I spent the better part of the weekend learning some video ripping and encoding tools to rip the audio track, and hand edit it with bleeps in the appropriate spots, and then build the video with that audio track instead. It turned out pretty good, so I thought I'd try to setup my site with it's own embedded video player to show it off.
I've got some code that is supposed to do that, so hopefully the next post will contain a pretty, youtube-style embedded player with my masterpiece.
That stupid thing is proving to be a exercise in futility because my adviser is out of the country. He said, "it will work out, because you can just email me your thesis document as you work on it, and I will read it and provide feedback from Scotland".
Yeah, that sounds like a great plan, if you answer your email. If you don't it's just me writing and babbling on, not sure if what I'm doing is even close to what is expected, so I'm flying pretty blind right now, and loving it.
During the week, we had a typical Aubrey breakdown due to math. It is a subject that he consistently does poorly in, not because he doesn't have the ability, but merely because he doesn't like it, and therefore doesn't put in the effort. During the outbreak of frustration, he mentions something about how Nostrdomus predicted the end of the world soon, and I laughed out loud.
It just so happened that I had been downloading episodes of Penn & Teller's showtime show - BS!, which I love. I love The Amazing Randi and anyone who can easily call out the idiots who claim to have extrasensory powers that any sane person knows they cannot. (I will have to say that I was a little disappointed that Penn went on that Dancing show, but whatever).
So I just so happened to have the episode titled "The End of the World", which addresses all the nutjobs who "predicted" the end of the world, including Nostrodomus. It also has much about how people "prepare" for living in the nuclear fallout / aftermath, which is great.
So anyway, since it's a cable show, it's got lot's of gratuitous swearing, so I spent the better part of the weekend learning some video ripping and encoding tools to rip the audio track, and hand edit it with bleeps in the appropriate spots, and then build the video with that audio track instead. It turned out pretty good, so I thought I'd try to setup my site with it's own embedded video player to show it off.
I've got some code that is supposed to do that, so hopefully the next post will contain a pretty, youtube-style embedded player with my masterpiece.