My med student wife is trying to pimp me out to her fellow med student colleagues as a practice dummy so they can work on their exam techniques on Friday. She says it won’t be anything invasive but I’m still not liking this. I think I will arrange to be very busy Friday.
Dilblog
Scott Adams has a blog, and hosted on TypePad no less.
Should make for some entertaining reading.
My sprintf(“Pentium %d”,rand()) beats your sprintf(“Pentium %d”,rand())!
Tom’s Hardware has a good article today about decoding the apparent random numbers Intel now uses to label it’s processors. Now that Intel and AMD appear to be leaving behind straight MHz/GHz classifications for their CPUs, they’re resorting to model number designations, like Pentium 570, or some other seemingly random number. But apparently there’s some method to the madness, although by the end of the article I was left with the impression that it won’t be long before CPU designations start resembling car VINs. People are going to need databases to figure out just what kind of processor they’re getting.
Buying the next computer is going to take a lot of research.
Time to get off my lazy fat ass
To help burn off some of Nala’s excess puppy lab energy and get me trimmed down, I’ve decided it’s time to start up running again. People say keeping a running log helps keep you motivated. It’s something I’ve only done sporadically, usually as part of my journal writing years ago. I decided this time I would try it out, so I set up my RunningBlog as a place for me to log my runs, thoughts and observations during my running.
I think this is going to be fun!
Where I run
I’m so out of shape it’s pretty pathetic. The house is at the end of along straight cul-de-sac road and using the car odometer, it measured just about 0.7 miles out to the main road, which is just over 1 km. An out and back trip is about 2.2 km, which I’ve done several times walking with the dog. It’s a nice walk. Eventually I’ll be able to do the whole distance and longer without stopping, but for now, I take a walking pause every 300 meters or so. Don’t want to push too hard this early after all. Good way to hurt yourself.
After being cooped up all day, Nala’s pretty enthusiastic about getting out. She’ll trot along pretty nicely on the way out at a relatively decent slow jogging speed, but then on the way back she either gets tired, or bored and slows down to a slow trot/fast walk. Then I end up almost pulling her along (which is almost the opposite of our trip out) and stopping more often to encourage her to keep going. Considering how much running and darting around she does at the dog park and how fast she goes, I’m inclined to think that maybe she’s just getting bored with plain old trotting up the street. I might have to start bringing treats to make it interesting for her.