Archive for February 26th, 2004
Counting Thunder
Thursday, February 26th, 2004
I actually woke up today, which is somewhat unusual. Usually I get up and walk around, but I’m still generally asleep. And I didn’t get much sleep at all either… had to wake up at 9… had an excruciatingly long and tedious EE lab on operational amplifiers, and did CS for the rest of the night. I even had to skip the PR meeting to finish it, and I feel bad about it because I finished early and might have been able to make it. Still, if some bug had showed up I would have needed the extra time.
It rained today; very hard in the morning, and more showers and some lightning just a couple hours ago. We started a fire downstairs and sat around listening to the thunder and talking. Good times. And, in case you’re ever arguing about how to count the thunder, sound travels at about 1000 feet per second, so it’s (about) a mile every 5 seconds.
I find new things I like about WordPress every time I visit. Like, if you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you’ll notice a little timer that tells you how long it took to generate the page. That’s a PHP thing, and not really useful, but still pretty cool. The link manager is also wonderful — much better than having to edit the main template every time I want to change a link.
Deleting my MovableType blog was a little weird… I had to remember that I backed it up and imported the whole thing here. After that, it was easy. I also deleted my fledgling photolog, which was going nowhere, frankly. It was just way too hard to post. I need it to be a one step no-image-editor process. Maybe I can figure out a way to do it better in WP. Until then, keep checking my Gallery 
::