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I want to become a multi-million dollar rap star so I can get on national cable TV and wear two pairs of glasses and pink feather things. Can you imagine what would happen if you wore that to the mall? Those silly rich people
Space.com ran a poll for the 10 best Sun images, and the winners were announced last week. My personal favorite one is this one, which is my background at the moment. There was a time when I wouldn't change backgrounds for a year at a time, and now I've changed my background about 6 times in the last 2 months. Maybe I'm getting fidigity on the computer. My homepage is still Slashdot, same as it's been for probably 4 years now.
I finally saw Sleeping Beauty tonight, as they were playing it on Disney for some reason. I knew the basic plot and I'd seen parts of it just from being around Disney so much, but I'd never seen the whole entire movie. And whilst mentioning good movies, I've heard very good things about Les Triplettes de Belleville, which while it has not real dialogue, is supposed to be one of the best movies of the year because of it's animation and the way the characters convey their actions. As it was recommended by a guy who loves Amelie as much as I do, I think it'll be a safe bet I'll like this one as well. Too bad Gainesville isn't big enough to get much art house movies quickly, but maybe it'll come to the Hippodrome at some point.
I finally completely finished my microprocessor's board, so I took some pictures to show the completed thing. It was a really fun class, and while the labs took a while, it was interesting and I learned a lot. My TA was cool too, though I gotta say my TA for Digital Logic last year wins out if only because I swear he sounds just like Samuel L Jackson. The pictures:
The board almost brand new
Top of the completed board
All my wire-wrapping on the bottom
When I bought it at the start of the semester, the only thing on there was the black microchip in the center in the first picture. Everything else was soldered, wired, and put in by me. We added a keypad and switches for input, LED and LCD for output, threw on some extra memory, some latches, and a serial port. Add a speaker and a Digital-to-Analog converter (which is what the battery is for, it gets power from an adapater plugged into the wall) to make sound, and it's a mini-music player. And for good measure the extra credit is to read the data from an remote, so there's a wireless IR sensor on there as well. I spents dozens of hours over the semester on it, but it's nice that you can actually have something to show at the end for all the hard work that's done. Besides, I heard that "I have a microP board in my room, want to see it?" is a GREAT pick-up line.
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