[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Name: Jiri (George) Lebl
Member since: N/A
Last Login: 2008-10-24 22:55:06
Homepage: http://www.jirka.org/
Notes: Math geek, formerly software geek. This exhibits itself by putting latex code into C programs by mistake, rather than vice versa as used to happen previously.
Credentials: Mathematics: I have
successfully used
the Baire
Category Theorem in actual research. See my UIUC page for
more.
Coder: I have created more easter eggs in gnome
software than anyone else at the time. For example, Wanda
the fish, which appears in more than one place if you know
where to look and what to press, gdm computing square root
of 2 or pi by monte carlo method, asking for coins on login,
killer gegls from outer space,
and more... At various times I was actually paid for this
by Eazel and RedHat.
Below it says I'm a developer in a buttload of projects, but I'm not really anymore on anything but genius, since I don't have much hacking time these days.
yet more cats
The cat is bouncing, but it appears to be bouncing down a staircase.
dead cats, gas prices, and why are republicans socialists
So I thought the dead cat hit the concrete yesterday end of trading. So right after open I buy AINV for $8 (about) and within an hour I am down $1200. Yaikes! This was not a dead cat, this was a stone thrown into a pond … oh well.
And what about gas prices. I thought the election was over. There is no need for low gas prices anymore. Well maybe it’s just momentum. I bet they will be up reasonably soon. Except we won’t have any cars and we’ll be walking to the soup line by foot after we have been scavenging on all the trash that we were so happily throwing out while capitalism and consumerism still worked.
That brings me to socialism and republicans. I find it odd that the people who are most screaming about how socialism is bad and redistribution of wealth is bad are from states that get more money from the federal government than they pay in taxes. Example: Alaska. A through and through republican state and they hate socialism there as long as it’s just a word and as long as it doesn’t mean anything. The moment you’d try to say: “OK, don’t pay any federal taxes, but you won’t get any federal money,” I’m sure they’d be very upset.
Republicans are selective socialists, they redistribute the wealth from everyone to only small percentage of people. Normally that would be called stealing by many (by many “right wingers”, whatever that terms means nowdays), but I’ll be nice and call them socialists.
So apparently a lot of this stuff is not the meanings of words but the sound of the words themselves. Maybe if we start using the word “capitalism” for a working social net, equal opportunity and fair wages, then all the republicans will get on board.
Snow
Yay! It snowed today.
I hope I get a tenure track position somewhere warmer … or colder, I wound’t mind more snow during the winter, I just don’t like much the cold-but-no-snow winters that we get here. Best would be a double appointment, spend the summer/fall somewhere colder, and spend the winter/spring somewhere warmer … Now I’m really being picky.
Ebay math
Somebody should be smacked upside the head. I am not a big ebayer, but sometimes I buy a few things there. Hence I do not have too many “ratings.” Now recently I looked into their page “how are these ratings calculated” because it says my positive feedback rating was 0%. Now this is because I had no ratings in the past 12 months. So far so good, though it does seem arbitrary to then make it 0%, it could have been 100% or any other number just as well.
Now comes the fun part. So they give a formula on how to compute the percentage: 
Hmmm … now I know why the ebay interface is so horrible, it is designed by people who think 
cats, dead
This dead cat’s got a lot of bounce. I don’t think a real dead cat would ever bounce so many times.
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