Ah! Weekend! Hooray... except for the fact that I have of work to
do. Excel ate the data for a lab I did on the speed response of a
servomotor, so I had to get up super early and go to University to see if I could get it done before my nine am
class, but the labs were all still locked. So I read over other notes
instead, and failed the quiz anyway.
So then I redid the lab, and put the data into Gnumeric instead
of Excel and Gnumeric actually saved the data instead of writing a
zero length file. Gnuplot for the graphs, LaTeX for the rest, and
everything comes out nice! Hooray! It's supposed to be informal, but
once you've got LaTeX figured out, it's so easy to make everything
pretty!
Had an excellent conversation with a friend last night about all
sorts of things. I think it started off with relationships, or lack
thereof, and continued on to intellectual property, napster,
music distribution and economics. After that it got into society,
particularly rave culture, but more generally about how mass
media has the power to influence and control culture. I deftly avoided
a tangent about religion, since this could have added another hour
or more to the conversation, and we ended where we began, on
relationships.
At one point during this conversation, I got off a on a tangent,
and followed up with "What the fuck? Where did that come from? Why did
I just say that?" I literally forgot the remarks that had caused my
tangent, and I completely confused myself. Thanks for following along,
Matt.
This was the sort of conversation that only comes along once in a
while. The kind of discourse that make you glad you can think and
talk. Everyone should be allowed to have a real in depth conversation
now and then, something so much more than idle chatter and so much
more interesting than talking about what kind of day you had.