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Infinity

Tinsley — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:11:11 +0000

I suddenly recall something interesting a professor of mine pointed out a couple years ago while on a tangent during lecture. It has to do with the nature of infinity and how accepting something perfectly reasonable as true leads to less intuitive, but equally true conclusions. The following expression is true and most people would not argue otherwise: 1/3 = .3333333333 . . . Assume, of course, that there is an infinite number of 3s trailing the decimal point. The following expression is also true, and even fewer people would argue otherwise: 1/3 + Read More No related posts.

Happy Birthday To Me

Tinsley — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:39:58 +0000

BWI, blogging while intoxicated. Related posts:

WordPress Scheduling

UNIX Life Lessons

Tinsley — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:40:20 +0000

Quoting my professor: When a parent forks a child it waits for it to exit. If you don't find this funny it is because

You arn't familiar with UNIX
Your sense of humor isn't that of child

Sheep Flu

Tinsley — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:29:26 +0000

Symptons include... Read More No related posts.

Organic

Tinsley — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:48:13 +0000

I take no issue with cage free eggs or vegetables grown without exposure to pesticides, but I do take issue with the word organic when used to describe food.

"I can't eat that cheeseburger because it is not organic."

"Really!? Its not relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms? To think that I went my whole life thinking beef was from cows." Read More No related posts.

Semicolons

Tinsley — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:05:02 +0000

You know you've spent too much time programming when you start ending your sentences with a semicolon; Read More No related posts.

Finals Week

Tinsley — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:39:37 +0000

If coffee were cocaine... I'd be Rick James Read More No related posts.

In Over My Head

Tinsley — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:00:16 +0000

Every now and then I sit down for a test that I am completely unprepared for. In that moment of desperation I think to myself "Maybe I can infer the required knowledge before time runs out". Read More Related posts:

I Just Took a PHP Test…

WordPress Scheduling

Tinsley — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:01:54 +0000

Should I ever become terminally ill, I plan to make excessive use of the WordPress post scheduling feature so I appear to be blogging from beyond the grave. By the way... I wrote this on the 8th, but it wasn't published until the 13th. I might be dead already. :o Read More Related posts:

Happy Birthday To Me

Adjusting the Curve

Tinsley — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:01:04 +0000

Every time I have an exam, I show up to class and place my scan tron and number 2 pencil on my desk, in plain sight. This is perfectly normal for exams that require a scan tron, but in those that don't it may cause people to run to the bookstore and then arrive once again ten minutes late, clearly exhausted. Read More No related posts.