Flashing five :-)

[pozorvlak]

I flashed five balls today, which is to say that I threw five balls up in the air, one after the other, and caught them all before they hit the floor.

It's a lot harder than it sounds :-)

In other news, I gave the second half of my abelian categories seminar today. I'd timed it at 32 minutes in rehearsal, so I was rather annoyed when it took over 40 in the actual seminar. Plus we started late, so I suspect I annoyed a lot of the audience. Then we had another hour by one of the professors on monads and comonads, almost all of which I knew :-(

And while I'm here, a couple of links. First, crazy bare-metal optimised algorithms in Quake 3. The Real Programmers are alive and well, it seems... Secondly, some actual English subtitles from Hong Kong films. I may have to nick some of those for the play :-)

Comments

[steerpikelet.livejournal.com]

Hey! Are you coming down to the varsity match this weekend?
Congratulations on your balls.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Well, that depends on when it happens (http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/35099.html)...

[steerpikelet.livejournal.com]

Broken link - or is it on a locked post?

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Works for me, not locked. Basically, I'm leaving at five on the Friday (latest train that didn't involve an overnight journey), so please please pretty please could you have the Varsity Match before then?

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

s/Friday/Sunday. It's late.

[steerpikelet.livejournal.com]

Right; well, in that case, I shall see you if I see you, as I may or may not be down tomorrow evening depending on how tired I am.
Until next time, then? ALES reunion/new year?

[sable-veins.livejournal.com]

"The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?"

Why, indeed?

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

It has a crazy All Your Base-style poetry to it, doesn't it?

[totherme.livejournal.com]

Something like "Eat hot lead, and die in the cold rain", perhaps?

I guess going though translation just removes it sufficiently from everyday forms of speach that it feels a bit otherworldly and unreal - robs it of the grit it may have had in the original language...

[sable-veins.livejournal.com]

All Your Base? Do enlighten me; I'd love to think that people write like this on purpose.

[totherme.livejournal.com]

A quick answer...

And a slightly longer one :)

[sable-veins.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course. ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

I gave my second seminar, on my research project, on Thursday. I mention it here because it's faintly relevant and that saves me whittering on about it in my own post - I'm frankly tired and pissed.

Well done on a talk done. Who cares how well done? Done.

PS on second thoughts maybe will actually update m'own journal when less pissed. Yes.

Re: Flashing five

[dedwarmo.livejournal.com]

I've tried and tried to flash 5 balls, but have yet had no success. Must keep working at it.