Contemplating a Name Change

I was think that since I kept the nickname 'rei' for so long, I should consider changing the blog name to R.E.I. That way, it might be interesting. With the name change, you can also expect new redirects like rei.cfgt.net and if I know how to rig it, cfgt.net/rei might also be possible. I was thinking of it as a pretty good idea, since a lot of people also know me by the name 'rei' as well as 'cfgt'. In case you didn't already know, Googling for 'rei' and 'cfgt' does result in my blog. Of course, the name change should be reasonable and the new name should make sense.

Possible candidates: Random or Entertaining Ideas Random Erroneous Ideas Random Echelon of Ideas Random Enigma of Ideas

After that, I decided I should change the R and I. Keeping Random Ideas together with the name change was pretty difficult. So I pulled of another few candidates: Random, Entertaining or Irritating Random, Erroneous and Infallible Really Explosive and Imploding Random Extrapolated Ideas ( ^ You are watching my thought process at work. Suddenly a new random idea shows up.)

Rei's Entry into Intelligence Ridiculously Entertaining Issues

and so on...

Got a good idea? Shoutbox or comment it. I'm getting a little sleepy to think about new meanings for the acronym R.E.I. to take on the same name as my nick.

And The Answer Is?

And the answer is C. Erratic Internet. And no, I'm not going to rant any longer about how bad or how good my Internet. The point is that it's working now. With that said, I leave you with an equation I like and many of you have seen.

Edit - changed the GIF to a slightly better looking one than before. The old one had awful jaggies along the equal sign. :P

The name of the GIF gives a clue to Google for if you have no idea what this equation is.

Guess Why There Wasn't a Post Yesterday.

Guess why there wasn't a post yesterday. Quite obvious right? Let see if you can guess what it is. Answer tomorrow. :D (yes, this is a lame silly post, but I'm not feeling all that well today, so I'm in no mood to post a proper one.) A. Got dragged off by friends. B. Busy with assignment. C. Erratic Internet. D. Powerbook behaviour anomaly. E. WordPress suddenly didn't work in Opera/Safari/Firefox. F. Computer was busy doing my assignment for me. G. Too busy chatting until 1am, so I forgot to make a post. H. Incessant http://bash.org/?random1 reading. I. Others, please specify in the comments area.

Yes, it's a multiple choice question.

Exploring Stupidity

Humans are supposed to be clever creatures, but their stupidity is pretty interesting too. Where else can you find beings who will completely ignore instinct in favour of their own stupidity? The Darwin Awards obviously list idiots in their greatest achievement of stupidities. A lot of stupidities listed on the site generally lead cleansing of the human genome of their existence in the inheritance line.

How stupid can people get? Ignoring the bleeding obvious can be one of them. I am among those who are among those incapable of seeing the obvious. I am the kind of idiot that takes the tutorial sheet, blast my entire way through, and then sees the easier way out later. It's so interesting see my stupidity occur.

Of course, there are many kind of stupidity. Mine seems to come from lack of common sense to begin with. That is, I lack fundamental logic within my mentality. It might sound odd, but I do lack quite an amount of what people would call 'common sense'. A lot of my common sense is emulated - hence there will be a lack of 'common sense' in certain situations when emulation will not function. If you know me, there might have been times when you would've noticed such anomalies. :D

However, there are also a lot of cases where people with common sense are willing to ignore them. It would be incorrect to say I envy some of these people, since I would consider it foolish to push aside basic human knowledge in favour of something else more desirable to them.

In my opinion, stupidity is when a human being lacks or refuses to heed common sense in favour of his or her own agenda. Since I'm getting sleepy, and I should go to sleep, I'll stop here. No point ignoring signals from my body to go to sleep. As for my agenda about stupidity, it'll have to wait another day. :D

(For the record, lacking common sense is OK. Refusing to use it is another story for another day.)

A Busy Day Filled with - Waiting

Despite my concerns, I had three pretty nice lectures today. I had a productive first lecture as I finished a sizeable amount of my tute sheets while my lecturer was yammering away. I do listen - mind you. It's just that Maths lectures can be kind of dry, especially when it comes to all these obscure theorems you will never use and never should care about. (of course, they aren't obscure, they're just boring). It's important, of course. It's just that I was kinda bored. My second lecture was interesting. I love probability. Probability is king of the maths world to me. Especially since a lot of proving 'probably' begins with you guessing which is 'probably' the right proof method. Probability is also full of vague proofs I cannot begin to even fathom the reason people would notate in such manners. That is, of course, until I write it down, and suddenly everything makes sense.

The third lecture was fun also. C pointers. Yay. (Do note the tone of sarcasm.) It was boring. Until the lecturer decided that my seat would become an example memory address. Then, I had to feint interest to make sure I would be active when my 'pointer' address was called upon. :D

After that, I had lunch. A burger from the kebab shop served the purpose of filling me up until I could barely walk without risking throwing up my lunch as well as any other meals I had before that. Then, came a period of waiting for the next class. Being as 'hardworking' as I was (in layman's terms, bored), I sat in the First Year Centre study room and finished another large chunk of tute sheet work.

Then, I went to the lab to refine and comment my program for my assignment in gory detail. (Trust me, commenting is important when your programming practices are foreign, even to your tutor. It happens when a programming n00b goes into a subject where everyone else can't even be called n00b because it just isn't possible.)

After that was tute. For some reason, I seem to pick the wrong table all the time. Everyone is very quiet for some damn reason. Fortunately, I seem to work well with what we have in the Intro to Programming tute, which is still pretty fun. :D

I waited until my lab session ended to see what would become of my question. Apparently, I would have to take it to the lecturer. Phooey. And I was hoping to erase that assignment off my to-do list today. I'll just be doing some testing before closing the door on the story. I can't get my program to achieve that maximum loss number!