[Colonol Dekker]

Just been to the Army careers office in blackheath with my 24 year old bro. He's going regular Royal Engineers. Quite proud, in the pub with him buying him a pint.

[Polpolion]

Battle of Leyte Gulf, WWII. Specifically, Taffy-3 vs. Central Group. I just watched a documentary about it in US Military History. Holy crap.

One destroyer pretty much charged a 23 ship Japanese battle group, and took out 2 cruisers. Then later, a destroyer escort took out another cruiser.

Seriously. The Japanese tonnage for a single ship (Yamato) was more than the combined tonnage for all US ships in Taffy-3. Sure, Taffy-3 lost about twice the amount of ships as Central Group, but given the fact that taffy-3 was both outnumbered, outgunned, and ill-equipped,  they did a lot of damage. They ended up forcing the Central group to pull out.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

She hot?

No.

My feet are getting cramped.

[Dark Hunter]

I am finally getting a decent grasp of ELF format files to disassemble with my disassembler.  Which is good, because the biggest kind of headache I'd been having is the input to the program and how to handle it.

Also trying to sign up for next semester's classes, and having a hell of a time doing that... soooo many scheduling conflicts.

In other words, typical end-of-term stuff (the disassembler is my big project for CS). It makes me tired.

[portej05]

Trying to complete my enrolment for next year (final year + honours!)
Trying to understand my final year project: "Successive Mean Quantisation Transforms for Speech and Image Processing"

[Bob-san]

I need to figure out a widget, so I can get an honors credit from my Marketing 1001 class. It's due in about 9 weeks, so I need to figure out a product and how to market it. I was thinking of marketing "bare" motherboards or something.

[blowfish]

I saw this

[Stormkeeper]

Battle of Leyte Gulf, WWII. Specifically, Taffy-3 vs. Central Group. I just watched a documentary about it in US Military History. Holy crap.

One destroyer pretty much charged a 23 ship Japanese battle group, and took out 2 cruisers. Then later, a destroyer escort took out another cruiser.

Seriously. The Japanese tonnage for a single ship (Yamato) was more than the combined tonnage for all US ships in Taffy-3. Sure, Taffy-3 lost about twice the amount of ships as Central Group, but given the fact that taffy-3 was both outnumbered, outgunned, and ill-equipped,  they did a lot of damage. They ended up forcing the Central group to pull out.

... Deja vu. I just played that mission in Heroes of the Pacific.

I'm feeling like crap atm. No idea why.

[Rick James]

[Gortef]

Trying to rebuild a CMOS battery to my old 120MHz Compac laptop... just out of curiosity.

[tinfoil]

I went to a Rise Against concert last night. My ears were ringing for hours and my clothes smell like stale cigarette smoke but damn it was good.

EDIT: also my government has gone insane. the sepratists and the nutcases are stageng what amounts to a non-millitary coup and there isn't a got dang thning anyone but the governer general can do about it.

[Bluecap]

The entirety of my state's unemployment office doesn't have enough workers to handle the massive influx of calls that the EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) plan Congress recently enacted; calls are being disconnected, heck the phone line circuits are maxed out from opening till closing.

You'd think a viable solution to this problem would be that the unemployment office would hire more people directly from the unemployment pool to countermand this, wouldn't you? But that'd be too logical of a solution.

[pecenipicek]

doesnt that sound damned familiar

[Bob-san]

I dropped my Accounting class in favor of taking an exam instead. In addition, I'm taking Honors Economics.

[Colonol Dekker]

My Dog's dying

[tinfoil]

that sucks.

[Mars]

Poor dekker & dog.   

[Bluecap]

I have a migraine the size of Jamaica and the intensity of the People's Republic of China military.

[pecenipicek]

i'm on the verge of laughing my ass off.

cleaned out the pc yesterday, added another fan, rearranged the wires for max airflow and such, and thanks to it being almost freezing in my room... PC's temps..

CPU: 22°C
ambient temp: around 30-ish°C (inside the case, outside, i'd be amazed if it were more than 10°C in my room...)
graphics card: 41°C but i think that its reporting it incorrectly, since its always around that temp when inactive apparently...
HDD1: 26°C
HDD2: 22°C

the cpu is a OC-ed phenom 9500 (stock 2.2GHz, OC-ed to 2.4), on a ECS A770M-A mobo, with a ECS 9600GT(stock settings, i'm not OC-ing it...) and the HDD's are one 320GB Hitachi and one 320GB Seagate. Seagates are weirdly silent and cool.

normal temps?
CPU: 35-ish
ambient: 45-ish
GPU: 45-ish
HDD1: 37
HDD2: 27

[ShadowGorrath]

At the powerplants. Before this one, I've been to the hidro-acumulation? powerplant. Now it's the heat/steam/whatever one.