There was he. His grace was beautiful. I could imagine when he walked in, that I would solely focused on his face, as if he was jaded. Walking barefoot, I saw his toes clutching the carpet gingerly. The body hair was barely visible, but some tufts on his legs and arms. His chest was devoid of hair. His eyes changed color with different lights. Sometimes hazel, sometimes gray, sometimes a shocking azure blue that leaves me trapped, as if I was being studied. His hair was like his eyes, also shifting color between light blond and dark brown. It was most of all a dirty lock, shaggy as the youth once independent, fierce, and wild, and now manifest in a sort of subdued , yet not subdued, a look that says he will play with whoever gives him the time of day. It is  a look that he will have died but Death loved him too much to make him pass before his time. Or perhaps Death has not notice him yet.

today

I titered P1 vir on AB1157 1:100 and then 1:50 to see if I can get enough viral growth to make a lysate.

So I am about to finish math

My friends, I am about to finish Discrete Structures, using a book that is focused on algorithms.

I am excited, my friends, to be close to done with school.

I am somewhat annoyed at the propensity of spam coming up here. I am not sure how to prevent that.

nursing a paper fetish

Since your telling me about A4 paper that you adopted, I am become uncharacteristically obsessed, especially for a paper that I will rarely use (since I don’t print much in the first place). I guess it’s the desire to be ahead of the curve of the rest of the US population.

So, I simply looked up more information. I learned that the ISO 216 standard means that you can turn reduce two A4 sheets to fit on one A4 through multiplying by 71%, equivalent to the square root of 2. Thinking it through, I wondered where the heck they came up with the 841 mm by 1189 mm as the A0 sheet. It turned out that there is no other way to maintain the ratio, and that there is a formula for it.

The US could have used yards, and patterned itself similarly. A US A4 standard would then be 7.6″ by 10.7″. That is quite small. The metric system is larger, 84.1 cm and 29.6 cm. If the US decided to keep one of the two dimensions, but have the other fit the sqrt(2) paradigm, then you could have a 7.8″ width or a 12″ width.

users and groups in ubuntu

In Users and Group under System -> Administration:

Click Manage Groups, click whichever group you would like to make users for, or add a new group.

When you have done so, be sure to log on and in for the new setting to take effect before trying to use chmod 774 and getting frustrated that you can’t edit a file despite adding your username to the group.

defining variables

short and unsigned short use 2 bytes

int and unsigned int use 4 bytes

long and unsigned long use 4 bytes as well

float use 4 bytes

double and long double use 8 bytes

char makes a data type, single quote of letter

bool is a data type to store either true or false

common escape sequences in C++

\n newline go to next line

\t horizontal tab skip to next tab stop

\a alarm beep

\b backspace move left one position the cursor

\r return move to beginning of current line the cursor

\\ backslash print backslash

\’ single quote print single quote

\” double quote print double quote

Shakespeare

I have wondered if Shakespeare was popular worldwide merely because of British and American hegemony of the last few centuries and now, but I’m thinking after watching the Russian performance that Shakespeare is popular because he is good.

Richard III

Richard III engages in self-deception. He wants to believe that he was self-made. He talks to himself about how he was born into the world deformed, unfinished, with hunchback and teeth. When Henry VI prophesied and mentioned the very things that Richard III soliloquized about, Richard couldn’t bear to hear any more and killed him.

That means that he would only hear about his own deformity and character if it was himself that was talking about it, not others. He can’t accept being a failure unless he was talking to himself about being a failure. He can’t accept hearing people talking about him because he wants to believe that he is his own creation.

1.IV

York:

Three times did Richard make a lane to me.
And thrice cried ‘Courage, father! fight it out!’
And full as oft came Edward to my side,
With purple falchion, painted to the hilt
In blood of those that had encounter’d him:
And when the hardiest warriors did retire,
Richard cried ‘Charge! and give no foot of ground!’
And cried ‘A crown, or else a glorious tomb!
A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre!’
With this, we charged again: but, out, alas!
We bodged again; as I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.