Slurpees are never the same..

Bad news: Slurpees are never the same after you put them in the freezer.

Saturday night, I went with some homeboys to the No 10 BYU mens volleyball game against No. 11 Lewis. The game was intense, with a first-set loss to Lewis, followed by a three-game BYU sweep. My friends and I were excited and motivated to play some volleyball ourselves... it's been a while since we've played good competitive volleyball.

At the conclusion of the game, the announcer invited us to return to the "Joseph Smith Field House" for another game next week... then was corrected. It is the "George Albert Smith Field House".. perhaps he did it on purpose for church publicity.

After the game, we picked up Ashley after she was done with work, and went to 7eleven for slurpees. I was feeling pretty bad.. like flu bad, so I came home and crashed after putting the slurpee in the freezer.

Now, as I work on a critique of the faith of my new Civ professor, I'm munching on frozen slurpee while reading Henry V. Here's my thesis so far: "Although competing statements in Henry V seem to portray King Henry as a believer or an atheist, the ultimate assessment of Henry’s faith is a reflection of the reader’s personal belief in God." We'll see how well this goes over with my instructor.

Mac Office

Just so everyone knows, I hate Mac Office. Especially Excel. For some reason, it gets into modes where it will crash on the second time I try to copy values from Excel to another program. It also crashed when Mac moved the window position as a response to my unplugging an additional monitor.

This crashing functionality caused me a lot of grief as I tried to complete scholarship applications, many of which wanted sorted lists of classes to be entered into text boxes on their web pages. Yeah it was a pain.

However, tonight is the first long night of the semester. It's 2 in the morning, and I'm trying to plot some graphs.. yeah, I should be using R or gnuplot, but Excel is good for quick and dirty stuff. Anyway, I'm trying to copy the graphs from Excel to Word. It has crashed a couple times on the copy, but the latest grief was caused when I was trying to change the data labels. Normally, in Excel, you right click on the graph, and click "Select Data" which takes you to a window where you can rename plots and stuff. In Word, the right click menu has "Edit Data" which looked good to me, so I clicked it. Unfortunately, I got this error window:



Hm. I choose "OK"?

Anyway, that's the latest reason why I hate Mac Office.

Yottabyte

I was surfing the internet the other day... actually, I was looking for the meaning of the number in like the third column of the ls -al command to list the files of a directory and their sizes, creation dates, etc. I was curious whether it was bytes, bits, or what.. Excuse me, I digress.

I stumbled across a cool web page that states that a yottabyte is everything there is to know. I thought it was neat, and then I wanted to show Nathan. When I couldn't find it easily, that's when I knew it had to go on the blog.

The site didn't seem very fancy (meaning it might die before blogspot does), so I have reproduced the page below. Here's the link to the original page: http://www.uplink.freeuk.com/data.html

• Bits
  
• 1 bit: A binary decision
  
  
• Bytes (8 Bits)
  
• 1 byte: A single character
  
• 10 bytes: A single word
  
• 100 bytes: A sentence
  
  
• Kilobyte (1024 Bytes)
  
• 1 Kilobyte: A page of text
  
• 10 Kilobytes: The size of this web page
  
• 100 Kilobytes: A compressed computer image OR a long essay
  
  
• Megabyte (1024 Kilobyte)
  
• 1 Megabyte: A small novel OR A 3.5 inch floppy disk
  
• 2 Megabytes: A high resolution photograph
  
• 5 Megabytes: The complete works of Shakespeare
  
• 10 Megabytes: A minute of high-fidelity sound
  
• 100 Megabytes: 1 meter of shelved books
  
• 500 Megabytes: A CD-ROM
  
  
• Gigabyte (1024 Megabyte)
  
• 1 Gigabyte: A symphony in high-fidelity sound OR A movie at TV quality
  
• 2 Gigabytes: 20 meters of shelved books
  
• 10 Gigabytes: A good collection of the works of Beethoven
  
• 20 Gigabytes: A VHS tape used for digital data
  
• 50 Gigabytes: A floor of books
  
• 100 Gigabytes: A floor of academic journals
  
  
• Terabyte (1024 Gigabyte)
  
• 1 Terabyte: 50000 trees made into paper and printed
  
• 2 Terabytes: An academic research library
  
• 10 Terabytes: The printed collection of the US Library of Congress
  
• 100 Terabytes: The entire internet
  
  
• Petabyte (1024 Terabyte)
  
• 1 Petabyte: 3 years of EOS data
  
  
• 10 Petabytes: All US academic research libraries
  
• 100 Petabytes: All printed material
  
  
• Exabyte (1024 Petabyte)
  
• 1 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings.
  
  
• Zettabyte (1024 Exabyte)
  
  
• Yottabyte (1024 Zettabyte)
  
• 1 Yottabyte: Everything that there is