SubscribeRed Bull Gives Me Wings!
Unlike the care free celebrations, exciting festivities, and home-room parties of elementary school, the end of the semester in college only brings a suffocatingly large amount of work followed by an relentless battery of exams.
My status? Well, with ¾ of a Red Bull making its way through my guts, I’m continuing to charge ahead into [...]
New Laptop and Blood and Stuff
I recently fixed my roomate’s old laptop. It’s a hefty Compaq Presario 2200, with a 1.3 GHz Celeron M and 480 MB RAM. It’s underwhelming power in no way justifies the 5.2 lbs of flimsy plastic, but for working on my C and VHDL programs anywhere, it does the job.
The thing is, it would overheat [...]
E-Penis Contest
It’s inevitable:
Put more than two engineers in the same room for a short amount of time, and without fail, the conversation will eventually turn into the classic engineering equivalent of a penis length contest.
By that I mean, the untold competition that is having the most amount of shit to do in the next week or [...]
Questionable Coding Practices
As I’m trying to finish up one of my programming projects, I was scanning through some of the code I had written and found something that was rather… interesting.
Normally, I consider myself a good programmer, but sometimes I have to take shortcuts and cut corners.
Here is a snippet from one of my recent projects in [...]
Computer Zombie
This semester, four of my five classes are based on programming. A compilers class (hard), a computer architecture class (very difficult), a Python class (moderately time consuming), and a VHDL design class (time consuming… and hard). This translates into me having about 1.8 projects due a week that involve a heavy amount of coding… as [...]