Conversation Starter #6

As a child I...

Always enjoyed playing out in the street, riding my bike and such... Loads of fun...

Faster?

Ok, little tid-bits of news for all you lucky readers (there is a few of you!).

First, I started and finished my longest ever assignment on Sunday. Thirty-two pages! A lot more writing than I am used to! A graph here and there. It was on frequency and spectra, so all the graphs were either from the oscilloscope, or created by me in MATLAB (i.e. There was writing behind the graphs too!). Solid effort, hoping for a nice mark on this one. Looks good too...

Next, my car accelerator had been sticking to the floor. Obviously, that could be a bit of a safety issue. It is in for service today. I did, however, find and fix the problem before I dropped it off. Turns out it was being caught on the car mat. I removed the car mat to solve the problem. It is having a service anyway, it was due.

I am playing around with the BIOS in my computer again (surprise, surprise) after reading an article that the stock Q6600 can be over clocked easily past 3.0 GHz while still using the stock cooling system. Moreover, thanks to ASUS' easy motherboard tweaking stuff, I can either just set the percentage and let the motherboard do the work or I can adjust it all manually. I am currently testing stability at 10%; 2.64 GHz. Sitting idle, it is at 29 degrees, and at full load 45 degrees; which is plenty of headroom to bump it up to 15% at the next test. In addition, I am now dual booting Windows 7. It is so pretty... I am sold already (Anyone who points out I was sold before I even bought my computer is both completely correct, and a smartass).

So clearly, with all these assignments, and acceleration problems, and over clocking, I have been running a bit fast recently, which explains this sickness I am getting. Time to slow down again...

Conversation Starter #5

The last dream I had...

Ok, this might sound completely random, but the last dream I had involved Ricciuti playing soccer and accidently knocking out the umpire with the ball... Yeah... I know... Random...