Sacramento in Late March 2009

Perfect weather:

• 21 C (70 F)
  
• Sun is shining
• Everything is green
• Birds singing
• Blossoming trees and plants

By June it will become 100+ F (38 C) outside; spring and fall in Sacramento are just right, in my opinion. A sort of electricity in the air as weather patterns transition.

CSC 130 Has a Night Class

This is good news on my way to a graduate degree: CSC 130 has a section that meets M, W from 5:30-6:45 p.m.

Section 02-DIS(82746) Status Session Regular Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates MoWe 5:30PM - 6:45PM Riverside Hall 1002 Chung Wang 8/31/2009 - 12/11/2009

This semester, I have to take time off from work to attend a M, W 9:00-10:15 a.m. class.

Radio Songs

Heard on KDVS 90.3 out of Davis, CA on Friday:

Liverpool, UK-based LadyTron's "He Took Her to a Movie" from their 2001 album "604" on the Emperor Norton label. Video.

MIT Switches Away from Scheme

But you can still take the course for free:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm

Lactose Intolerance

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerant

Surnames

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+ Hustig      72 117 115 116 105 103
          83 171 221 232 224 221 225
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+ HUSTIG       72  85  83  84  73  71
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:P

Four Variable Karnaugh Map

Failing to find a four-variable Karnaugh Map that looks like the version in Mano and Kine's Fourth Edition "Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals", I created my own version:

Source Inkscape SVG file available here: http://kevinschultz.com/four-variable-karnaugh-map.svg.

I am releasing this image as a public domain work. Hope it helps.

VHS Cassette Repair

Spent 30 pleasant minutes today learning how to take apart and put back together a VHS cassette:

http://www.inspectmygadget.com/2008/01/23/how-to-repair-a-vhs-tape/

SxSW 2009 Songs

Going through the torrent of music from the South by Southwest festival 2009.

Songs I like:

Baltimore, Maryland-based Adventure's "Battle Cat" 

Alaska in Winter's "Berlin"

Alela Diane's "White As Diamonds"

Alex Smoke's "A Moment to Myself"

All Tiny Creatures' "To All Tiny Creatures"

Allison's "Algo Que Decir"

Ana Silvera's "Gardenias and Cigarettes"

Anchorsong's "Set the Bears Free" 

A-Trak's "Say Whoa"

Baddies' "Battleships"

Bang! Bang! Eche!'s "4 to the Floor"

Beausoleil's "I Spent All My Money Loving You"

Belladonna's "Black Swan"

Big Sam's Funky Nation's "Up in Here"

Black Cherry's "Radio"

Blackstrap's "Rough Parade"

Bleeders' "No Hope Left"

...

and it goes to the L's ;) So it will take a while.

Link: http://sites.google.com/site/sxsw2009torrent/

Engaged

Heart-shaped, natural purple sapphire, 2.175 carats, on a white gold band. The deep purple color comes from trace elements of vanadium.

I proposed to Dawn on Saturday, March 7 at the Muir Woods National Monument, an old-growth stand of coastal redwood trees in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The sun was shining, a lone unseen songbird greeted us, and Redwood Creek rushed to our left. At Cathedral Grove I kneeled and proposed, and Dawn said "yes."

We spent the remainder of the day visiting Ghirardelli Square for chocolate desserts, riding cable cars, visiting Japantown and Chinatown, and eating an incredible dinner at Chez Panisse in Berkeley.

Dawn requested I include a link to the wine we had that night, the 2007 Bandol Rosé, Domaine Tempier. The waiter explained that the woman who makes it served as a mentor to Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters. Highly recommended by our waiter, deservedly so.

Verilog + IKEA Instruction People

Dawn suggested that the Verilog manual should include pictures of the IKEA people if/when it gets stuck in an infinite loop:

vimrc

se nohlsearch
se ic
if (&term == 'xterm' || &term =~? '^screen') && hostname() == 'my-machine'
    " On my machine, I use an old Konsole with 256 color support
    set t_Co=256
    let g:CSApprox_konsole = 1
endif
se nu
se tabstop=2
se shiftwidth=2
se sw=2
se expandtab
se nosol
se showmode
se autoindent
se wrapscan
se wrap
se nobackup
se smartindent
se title
se ruler
se scrolloff=2
se shortmess=at
se showcmd
se showmatch
se paste

syntax on

highlight cComment ctermfg=2
highlight cCppOut ctermfg=7
highlight Comment ctermfg=2
highlight Directory ctermfg=2
highlight NonText ctermfg=White
highlight Preproc ctermfg=7
highlight String ctermfg=6
highlight Number ctermfg=3
highlight Character ctermfg=6

highlight tclComment ctermfg=2
highlight tclLineContinue ctermfg=2

highlight makeComment ctermfg=2
highlight vimComment ctermfg=6
highlight shComment ctermfg=2
highlight idlComment ctermfg=2

colorscheme koehler

map 0i/* $A */

inoremap # X^H#

UPDATE 2013-02-24: added term color wrapper (via)