Journal FortKnox's Journal: Misery 11
So, I worked with my friend thursday with his integration by parts. The problem he was having wasn't the concept of the IBP, but rather how to take stuff like sine^2 and converting it to something easier to integrate. I didn't help him much, but started breaking down the problems, giving him options, and he ended up working all his problems out on his own.
Thats when the misery happened. That next morning, at like 4am, I got a severe stomach flu. I've had the flu before, I've had it bad, I can even remember when I had it the worst. This was about 100 times worse than that time. I was almost to the brink of tears, I was so miserable. Friday was hell. I'd go on, but A.) It'd be a gross conversations and B.) I'm trying to forget it.
But, on the bright side, Valentine's Day was still spent the way we had planned[1], rented a couple DVD's, got takeout from our favorite restaurant, and ate & watched them while Joey slept (my wife isn't the "flowers" type, and no "chocolates" for the diabetic).
It took until today to fully recover, but I got some time on the new computer (I still need to rehookup the old one so I can copy over all the email stuff and crap... I haven't checked my home email in almost a week). So, of course, I played myself some more DeusEx:IW. One of the most entertaining parts of the game has been the 'dead body physics' (followed closely by people standing too close to fires, catching themselves on fire, then running around flailing about, and catching OTHER people on fire). Firing a sniper shot out of a high powered rifle, hitting the enemy in the face, and watch his body, basically, summersault is just funny to see. And the lines can just be GREAT (I must be dead, then, cause I'm up to my eyeballs in biomodifications!). Then again, I could just be loopy cause of the illness...
So I've been out of the /. look for a bit long, and had to use the 'amigos' trick[2] to try and get back on track.
Anything exciting happen to yens all?
[1] Hey all you "I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, and my wife agrees" types: She may not like the 'hallmark' thing, or whatever, but all her friends and stuff will have Valentine surprises and such, and you'll be the one looking like an ass because she secretly wants a little something (women wanting something, but not telling you or telling you the opposite is just completely unfounded, right?). For quick recovery, do something on a Tuesday (bring home flowers?) just out of the blue for no reason. Thank me later :-P
[2] the amigos trick is simply http://slashdot.org/my/amigos. It lines up all your friends journals in order. Its the best way to check out new stuff, and good if you are one of the first people to reply to a journal (so you can go back and see what other people have said. IE - going back to see all the wiseass cracks at em when he posts a poll) ;-)
Thats when the misery happened. That next morning, at like 4am, I got a severe stomach flu. I've had the flu before, I've had it bad, I can even remember when I had it the worst. This was about 100 times worse than that time. I was almost to the brink of tears, I was so miserable. Friday was hell. I'd go on, but A.) It'd be a gross conversations and B.) I'm trying to forget it.
But, on the bright side, Valentine's Day was still spent the way we had planned[1], rented a couple DVD's, got takeout from our favorite restaurant, and ate & watched them while Joey slept (my wife isn't the "flowers" type, and no "chocolates" for the diabetic).
It took until today to fully recover, but I got some time on the new computer (I still need to rehookup the old one so I can copy over all the email stuff and crap... I haven't checked my home email in almost a week). So, of course, I played myself some more DeusEx:IW. One of the most entertaining parts of the game has been the 'dead body physics' (followed closely by people standing too close to fires, catching themselves on fire, then running around flailing about, and catching OTHER people on fire). Firing a sniper shot out of a high powered rifle, hitting the enemy in the face, and watch his body, basically, summersault is just funny to see. And the lines can just be GREAT (I must be dead, then, cause I'm up to my eyeballs in biomodifications!). Then again, I could just be loopy cause of the illness...
So I've been out of the
Anything exciting happen to yens all?
[1] Hey all you "I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, and my wife agrees" types: She may not like the 'hallmark' thing, or whatever, but all her friends and stuff will have Valentine surprises and such, and you'll be the one looking like an ass because she secretly wants a little something (women wanting something, but not telling you or telling you the opposite is just completely unfounded, right?). For quick recovery, do something on a Tuesday (bring home flowers?) just out of the blue for no reason. Thank me later
[2] the amigos trick is simply http://slashdot.org/my/amigos. It lines up all your friends journals in order. Its the best way to check out new stuff, and good if you are one of the first people to reply to a journal (so you can go back and see what other people have said. IE - going back to see all the wiseass cracks at em when he posts a poll)
Amigos (Score:2)
Another variant on this is
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This presents a listing of your friends and simply the title of their latest journal. I've used that as a step before the amigos for when I've b
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Of course, mother-fscking long JEs can be a PITA, but th
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Stomach flu sucks (Score:2)
So far, the wife and three of the kids have gotten it this year, but pretty mild cases.
Excitement (Score:1)
Worked all day Sat. and got a lot of stuff done. Still having some problems setting up JBoss on our W2K server so I might be in this coming weekend.
Marquette get their asses kicked and then handed back to them. You can't give up 60% in the 3-point range and still hope to win with 30%.
A couple of hours of snowboarding and hanging out with ski patrol. I guess my accidents are something of a legend with them.
Interviewed with a race team on Sunday and looked at some new bikes. I'm leaning toward a Trek Fu
Deus Ex (Score:2)
Nice game in some places, although I was cursing up a storm due to some of the enemies you encounter in the later part.
Took us about 15 hours total, from start to finish, to accomplish this. It was a real marathon session.
Gotta say though, the best part about the game was the "Party level
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