As I am sure many of you are aware, Mr. Reznor recently released the NIN album Ghosts I–IV. This album is released under the Creative Commons, and as such, may be legally distributed. You may pick up the entire collection in lossless (FLAC) format here. I encourage you to purchase the album. The same download I provided a link to above is a mere $5 US. It is well worth the cost, and you will be ...More »

I have begun the initial steps of preparing my 4th year undergraduate thesis. I have chosen to write my thesis in LaTeX2e because of the simplicity of writing large amounts of mathematical equations as well as the superior layout capabilities offered by the TeX typesetting system. This leaves two problems. The first is "how should my thesis look, anyway?" I have never written one before, and only have my hands on a couple (all but one ...More »

Due to the badness of someone else, we currently have 2 excess Skule Night tickets for March 15th (Saturday). If you are interested, please e-mail me and let me know. More »

Today, Matt Good posted an entry titled Zero Hours. It has since been taken down, though I am not sure why. According to the copyright notice on his blog, Creative Commons licensing applies to the work of contributors, allowing the copying and sharing of the content provided attribution, non-commercial purposes, and no derivative works. As such, I've included the text of this post here in case anyone is interested in reading it in the future. Title ...More »

It is Sunday night here in Toronto, and I'm trying my hardest to avoid schoolwork. I've a thesis meeting tomorrow morning and a midterm (in Aeroelasticity) on Tuesday. Since theses are due (I believe) on April 11th, this leaves me about a month to work on it. In that time I need to Pick a trial function (a.k.a. the Armitage function) Create a function to return the point stencil for any given ordered approximation Modify my B-matrix ...More »

I like to say I can play guitar. I got my first electric guitar when I was 12 or 13, a Peavey Predator. I still have it. When I was about 16 I started taking lessons from John Ellis. John was really into Classic Rock, and thus, by extension, so was I. I learned a lot of the staples, such as Stairway to Heaven, Back In Black, and Thunderstruck, but I also liked to focus ...More »

I have been working on modifying the Minimalia theme by Dale Mugford and Matthew Good, tweaking it here and there to suit my needs. I was planning to wait at least another week before updating the site, but decided its close enough to just work for now. I will continue making changes to it over the coming weeks to smooth things out. For example, I want to implement an AJAX-login/logout to prevent guests from having to ...More »

Is Dexter ill today? Mr. Kirk, Dexter's in school I'm afraid he's not, Miss Fishpaw Dexter's truancy problem is way out of hand The Baltimore County school board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system Oh Mr Kirk, I'm as upset as you to learn of Dexter's truancy But surely, expulsion is not the answer! I'm afraid expulsion is the only answer It's the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane It came to my attention this morning ...More »

I'm not sure whether it is because of my recent insomnia, my continually useless and annoying classes, or my incessant playing of Guitar Hero, but I've been on a bit of a metal kick recently. In the past week, I have acquired discographies for and been listening to several thrash/speed/hXc/epic/[...] metal bands, such as DragonForce, Megadeth, The Locust, and All That Remains. To be honest, this is the first occasion I can recall spending any significant ...More »

Yay, the grades for Structures were finally posted =D I did about as well as I expected, which lands my final semester average at a few percent above the class average of 78%. In other news, we're down to four days until the boat show this Saturday. Yet again, we will be arriving early and spending the morning ogling all of the new displays this year. Around lunch time we'll pause for a tailgate party ...More »