“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
School resumes today, which means I’ll be updating the blog less frequently from now on.
This semester I am doing a course named ‘Baynesian Analysis’, teaching an Electronics Lab, and working in the x-ray lab, initially on my oral exam. If this sounds like a big workload I fear it is…
I have a mail folder named ‘saved’ into which I dump all sorts of random emails, and have been doing so for about 7 years. I was cleaning it out today and found this beauty, which I sent to several recipients about 5 years ago:
The best line, IMHO, is the second last one (where I project how long it may take me to code).
And even though I titled this entry Vaporware the product most certainly came to fruition. It would ultimately be called Mercenary King Infinity and retained all the features mentioned in this email. Of course it took me several months to complete.
Mmmm…I wish I knew someone who could write a robust roguelike game engine to which I could tether my robust roguelike gameplay ideas 🙂
Our carpets were replaced Wednesday. It took two installers about 6.5 hours to completely remove the old carpets and install the new ones. In total we had about 800 square feet of carpets replaced, which was all the carpet in the house save the ‘fireplace room’ downstairs.
The old carpets were worn in the heavily trafficed area’s, and were a bit too deep pile for our liking. They also had 20 or 30 years of use in them:
< Old Carpets
Tearing out the old carpets revealed a disgusting amount of very fine, silty dirt beneath them. Once that was vacuumed up, the hardwood floors underneath were in pristine condition:
The last shot above shows the stairs. My guess, based on appearances, is that initially the stairs were left as hardwood and only the upstairs was carpeted (with a blue carpet; traces remained). And then at some point the orange carpet was installed over the stairs as well.
In the middle shot above, mildew is visible on the piece of padding thrown across the padding still on the floor. The staircase shot above shows the new padding. The new product is mildew resistant, and apparently such technology wasn’t available back when the old carpets were installed (estimated to be about 20-25 years ago).
The total cost was quite expensive, but we had a good feeling about the company we chose. The installers (who averaged about my age) were professional and friendly and – I’m glad to say – worked with care and finesse. They did an especially good job with the detailing on and around the staircase.
And here are some shots of the finished product. Note that we hadn’t finished reorganizing everything in these images:
And yes Bernard, that is a Morning Musume calendar visible through the door at the end of the hall in the last shot 🙂