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Cake day: July 31st, 2024

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  • Hmmm…

    Enter Sandman, and The Unforgiven (Metallica)

    The Phantom of the Opera in Tarja’s and Marko’s version (Nightwish). Also Storytime in Anette’s version.

    The Keeper of the Seven Keys, and Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)

    Chop Suey (System of a Down)

    Dance With the Dragon (Dark Sarah)

    Ace of spades (Motörhead)

    … A bunch of stuff from Guns’n’Roses, Black Sabbath, and Poison (maybe my definition of metal is wider than yours…)

    Other days I’d have listed something by Evanescence, Edguy, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Korpiklaani, Alestorm, Nanowar, Dragonforce, …

    Yeah, I tend to be biased towards power metal, symphonic metal, and various '80s groups that are somewhere on the border between “hard rock” and “metal”. I know that’s not everyone’s cup of tea.




  • That’s soo my wife.

    Friends coming over for dinner, and we want another two seats available at the table? I’d better make her clear off that table because otherwise there’ll be another round of “NOOOO, you moved stuff, now I’ll never be able to find anything again”. “Sweetie, it’s all on the side table. I moved the stuff pile by pile, didn’t mix the piles” “It’s forever gone!”







  • It varies so much from day to day, if I even notice that I skipped a meal (not breakfast, mkay? I literally can’t skip breakfast). Sometimes I’m in the zone and don’t notice that lunch time was like 4 hours ago. Other days I can get really irritated that I haven’t had lunch yet and it’s another hour until I’m supposed to take that lunch break.





  • Which of the cups?

    The one that’s in my cabinet? The one that Wikipedia lists as “this is definitely the cup, there’s no doubt about that”? The cup that’s also called a “coffee cup” as opposed to the cup from which I drink my coffee, which is very different despite also being both a cup and a coffee cup? The volume that my coffee maker defines to be a cup (or maybe that’s supposed to be a cup, sorry, coffee cup, but not the same coffee cup that the standard coffee cup - which still is named a cup)?


  • -50C is real cold - about as cold as regular humans will ever be exposed to, and survive, anywhere (outside of Antarctica). +50C is real hot - about as hot as regular humans will ever be exposed to (and survive).

    Nice and symmetric.

    Of course there’s a little bit of flexibility in these descriptions. I believe both Baghdad and Yarkutsk have surpassed their respective “50”-lines without killing their complete populations.


  • It’s significant already. If I get the math right (warning, I’m on my phone in bed at 3am and it’s been 10 years) I think that a 1 inch chip running at 3GHz clock rate could, if you aren’t careful with the design of the clock network, end up with half a clock cycle physically fitting on the chip. That is, the trace that was supposed to move the signal from one end of the chip to the other, would instead see the clock signal as a standing wave, not moving at all. (Of course people has (tried?) to make use of that effect. I think it was called “resonant clock distribution” or some such)