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Evan P. Mills’ Ramblings

Happy Birthday, Felicia!

Filed under: Personal — Evan at 11:57 am on Sunday, August 27, 2006

Couldn’t reach you on the phone, so the family decided to record you a couple of birthday wishes.

So, in your honor, may I present our two renditions of “Happy Birthday.”

Enjoy!

– E

It’s the Safety Dance!

Filed under: Computing, Personal, Software Development — Evan at 7:53 pm on Saturday, August 26, 2006

Well, my cousin threw down the gaunlet by proposing this quite humorous programmatic rendition of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s indominatable “I Like Big Butts”:

I.like(bigButts) && I.canLie(false);
otherBrothers.canDeny(false);
when (girl.walksIn())
{
if (girl.hasIttyBittyWaist() && roundThing.getLocation()==your.FACE)
{
you.getSprung();
}
}

Which I thought was quite clever. So, I felt I owed him a response comensurate with the length of time I made him wait for a reply.

(Read on …)

New Favorite Book

Filed under: Computing — Evan at 12:10 pm on Saturday, August 26, 2006

“Read any good books lately?”

Well, I’ve got a new favorite. It contains all the elements of a great book: a snappy introduction, intrigue, plot twists and a cliff-hanger of an ending.

As I’m sure you’ve guessed, I’m referring to The Square Root of 3 by Jerry Bonnel and Robert Nemiroff, available on Project Gutenberg.

SPOILER ALERT: The 30,788th significant digit is 4.

In all ernestness, I think Project Gutenberg is a great concept. But when I ran across this, I just cracked up.

My Fingers as of the End of August

Filed under: Personal — Evan at 11:08 am on Saturday, August 26, 2006

Now two months since my famous accident in which I saved the lives of countless orphaned children, my fingernails are making good progress:

Evan's Fingers at the End of August 2006

My middle finger is back to around 80% and the ring finger to around 50%.