The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

We’re all just fumbling in the dark — for a heart of hearts

Month: March, 2007

MCP

I just watched Tron for the first time, and I’m amazed at how influential a film it has been. I picked up references from SO many things, South Park to Family Guy…it was great. My bed is covered with stuff, as usual, and I don’t want to clear it off. I feel profoundly alone. Christen’s [...]

f@h

I just wanted to mention that I still do Folding@Home, that distributed computing project to solve cancer and such. I just wanted to say that a month or so ago they FINALLY released a client for Intel-based Macs. With all due respect, they had never made a folding engine that worked on multiple-cored processors, and [...]

whoa. I have found the smartphone of my dreams.

It’s called the HTC Advantage. They have it on T-Mobile Netherlands, why not in the U.S.? 8GB hard drive. 8 hour battery life. 3G, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi Full keyboard. Dual stereo speakers. 5″ VGA touchscreen. Built-in GPS with TomTom navigation software. *orgasm*

what am i supposed to do to keep from going under?

I’m happy to report that my speech-recognition program is back up and running. It’s never the speech-recognition program itself that dies, it’s Parallels Desktop, my virtual machine application, that is finicky. I really wanted to write last night, so I just had to suck it up and Advil my way through a post. But today, [...]

so.

This morning I found myself in front of Adrian’s house. It was so surreal. I took off my helmet, took out my phone, and called him. He had just woken up, and he came to open the front door for me. We made small talk while he made coffee for us, and we went down [...]