Sometimes I feel like my brain is a branch predictor. I only know what is gonna happen next by keeping count of how many times it happened before. Sometimes my nerdiness amazes me…..but the analogy holds pretty true. If my brain is like a branch predictor, what is my ALU, and how did calculus manage [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in February, 2004
Well, here it is….T-minus 2 hours to the comedic movie of the retardation (at least for the moment) and we are preparing in true male fashion. I just ate my fill of good red meat, and fries….and I’m currently drinking a beer. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is playing on the DVD machine, and [...]
So lately I’ve been pretty on edge for a whole host of different reasons. I’m a little run down by the fact that Lauren is sick, cuz that is hard to deal with, and there is not much I can do to help her feel better. I’m glad my Mom came to help out for [...]
Rob, Seth and I (and possibly others) are going to forgo the large crowds this weekend who are out to see “The Passion of Christ” and see a funny movie by the Broken Lizard comedy troop called “Club Dread” This should be a hilarious movie, since it is by the same people who made “Super [...]
Well, I don’t know if I have mono yet because I didn’t get a chance to head to McKill-me yesterday, and today Lauren called me early in the morning (read before 7 am) to come pick her up from the emergency room. She had Liz take her in on her way to work because her [...]
So, I was looking up some stuff about personality types with Seth today and we ran across this paragraph in an ENTP description. ENTPs are basically optimists about life. Major setbacks in life, ENTPs tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determination.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and [...]
So sometime today I have to go get tested for mono. I was really beat for a good part of yesterday, and I went to bed around 11ish, maybe fell asleep somewhere between 11 and 11:30, and I looked at my clock after 7 this morning, and thought I’ll just nap for a bit and [...]
ENTP – “Inventor”. Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population. Take Free Myers-Briggs Word Test So, I took the beta version of the “word association” version of this test, and low and behold….on the nose. I am never anything but an ENTP. Once in high [...]
So, I was listening to the planet the other day and I heard a song called “Absolutely Wasted” by a band called Abandon. And I was thinking that this is a pretty funny song. Then I got to thinking about all the funny songs I’ve heard about being drunk or high, and I got to [...]
Did you ever wonder if this is really as good as it gets. Did you ever feel like you should be feeling something but you don’t know what to feel. Have you ever bounced between being very apathetic and hypersensitive. Have you ever got tired of the people around you for no apparent reason. Or [...]
Cingular bought AT&T wireless today, and I think this might be a good thing. First off, AT&T was already in the process of upgrading it’s networks to the new 3G stuff (I think it is called EDGE) which is for higher data rates making wireless video streamed to your phone possible, and better wireless internet [...]
I am taking a day at home, since I had a sore throat when I woke up and I was generally exhausted, so I am working on a paper about Love based on the dialog in Plato’s “Symposium” and watching the movie “A River Runs Through It.” I don’t know exactly what it is about [...]
Well, I just finished a test, and I think it went well. I didn’t study my transistors very well before this class and it only had two problems on it and one was a transistor problem. If you don’t know anything about MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) transistors, they can be in three regions of operation: cut-off, linear/triode, [...]
