Paul's Pretentious Pablum

There are no good space toys. None.

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:31:20 GMT

Problem: Caleb saw this space set in a magazine recently and in his own mind has reorganized his entire Santa Strategy around it.

Why is this a problem? Because this set, or one of it's many, many other configurations, appears to be utter and total crap. This is a problem because I don't want to spend $50 on utter total crap.

However, we can find essentially no other toys that are currently manufactured that meet the following requirements:

Are not total crap
Have several astronaut figures
include a space shuttle with booster rockets
Have some (anachronistic but cool) Apollo era goodness thrown in, like a Saturn V and a lunar lander
Include an American flag, something Caleb really wants.

I think he wants to have boosters and also be able to re-enact Apollo 11. (He's _really_ into Apollo 11. Did I mention that for about 2-3 months he was Armstrong, I was Aldrin and Melissa was Collins? Like he referred to us as those names for 2 or 3 months? It was pretty fun. But I digress.)

Anyway, after an evening of online searching, we can basically only find crap like the above linked toy, or a nice space set or two from the 80s made by tonka which are only available on E-bay. Why doesn't anybody make non-crap space toys?

Oh yeah, there's a Lego Space Set for educators which is cool, but no boosters, and probably 3 times what we want to pay...

/sigh Really world? No reasonably priced, non-dime store realistic space toys? I sense a niche. But not one that I'm willing to fill.

P.S. We already have this set but note the lack of boosters (and other astronauts... Matchbox, please sell the astronauts separately!!!). Not authentic enough to fool Caleb... He knows it needs boosters.

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:50:01 GMT

Here's some stuff I'd like for Christmas, in no particular order:

A Dremel tool

A blimpudiuno kit.

Morse code paddles

Anything from my amazon wishlist.

A BYU Hoodie. With a nice logo on it.

Membership in the ARRL. My callsign is KC8IGJ

More arduino fun things.

A snap circuits fm radio which can be found at the red balloon.

Settlers of Catan (I want to finally give in and play it some, maybe...)

Some fun books to read.

Scrabble flash cubes

Cisco VPN for Snow LeopardHelp for the lazy-ish webs.

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:40:19 GMT

The Cisco VPN client on Snow Leopard has been crapping out quite often for me recently. All kinds of weird things like screwing up pages that are already open, caching weird dns entries etc.

Bad, but doable solution:

Flush the Mac OS X Snow Leopard DNS Cache with the following command:

dscacheutil -flushcache

Thanks.

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:52:11 GMT

Caleb: Daddy! They took away my California job!!! And they put me back in College! And they took away my job from Sourceforge!

Caleb (pretend writing): California job.

Caleb (holding little desk up to ear like a phone): Ok, could you please give my california job back?

(Caleb mumbles a pretend response from the pretend, gigantic phone)

Caleb: Why not?

(Caleb mumbles a pretend response from the pretend, gigantic phone)

Caleb: Well it's my Job! Send it back!

(Caleb mumbles a pretend response from the pretend, gigantic phone and then a forlorn "Okaaay" from the person on the other end of the line)

Caleb: There it is! It's back!

Caleb: I was talking to Luke, but they sent me back my california job.

Well, as you can tell, it's official. I'm leaving Sourceforge.net for Ning. It was a hard decision because I love sf.net and have immensely enjoyed my time there, but I think Ning is the right place for me to be right now. This is not the greatest of times to switch horses, since I'm still struggling to finish the ol' masters thesis, but everything has pretty much worked out so well so far.

I'm going to miss my many talented and wonderful colleagues at sf.net. They've treated me with immense patience, kindness and have quite expertly and charitably taught me so many different things about running a big website these last few years, not to mention the many more personal, non-technical lessons I've learned from them all.

I'm looking forward to more growing experiences with Ning and getting to be involved with another Silicon Valley company which by all accounts seems to have built quite a wonderful engineering staff who I'm sure will have loads of things to teach me, too.

Yay.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:31:01 GMT

You may or may not know that Melissa used some of her teaching money from years gone by to purchase a piano.

We just played a little duet on it and it was nice.

That is all. Carry on.

Ahh hah! So I was (sort of) right!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:19:45 GMT

Youtube does have some kinda magic to help monetize the music in videos going on. That's cool. Maybe this is actually a step towards helping copyright holders act a bit more sanely towards fair use. Time will tell, I suppose.

Scooped.

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:10:46 GMT

Looks like somebody already wrote my thesis so it's time to re-think and re-tool.

/sigh

I'm probably just a luddite.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:53:12 GMT

But, I just watched a home movie of a monster truck rally. During the movie, the family had cut in a U2 Clip. While I was watching it, I was given an advertisement asking me if I'd like to buy the clip.

Now, I've seen those ads on youtube videos which are actually music videos, but never on something where they've obviously gone through somehow and autodetected what songs are inside the youtube video and given you an ad based on the soundtrack.

To me, that's big. That's like "We've cracked a way to monetize youtube videos" big and I don't think I've ever read anything about it. Anybody out there in the internets know anything about that?

Looks like we're getting through to him.

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:59:50 GMT

Caleb, playing the piano and singing:
"Jesus came and was happy...
Then he was resurrected..."
(Suddenly, playing the piano harder)
"Rock band! Rock band!"

POTS.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:06:37 GMT

POTS stands for plain old telephone service. I like the ol' wired land-line. It gives me an odd sense of security. So we've got one. At our last apartment our phone number had apparently rather recently belonged to "Diamondback Exteriors." About... 10 times a week we'd get calls for them. More during the rainy season. Apparently they did stucco because people asked for that a lot. Our answer message was pretty close to this:

"Hi, you've reached the Huffs. We don't do stucco. If you're looking for Diamondback Exteriors, you're going to have to call another number. We don't know what that number is. But if you're looking for the Huffs, you've reached us! Leave us a message after the beep."

This is what our message now says:

"Hi you've reached the Huffs, not the Royal China Chinese restaurant. If you're looking for chinese food, we can't help you because we don't serve any. But, if you're looking for the Huffs, leave us a message after the beep. Thank you, very much!"

Sometimes lightning strikes twice.

Richard Stallman goes mainstream.

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:43:20 GMT

I know that Richard Stallman is still fighting the good fight, and he's got lots of battles to fight that he still thinks are important, but honestly, I think the original goal of the FSF has pretty much been reached.

I bought one of them new fangled Flat Panel LCD HDTVs a couple of weeks back, because I'd been thinking about it for a while, had some extra cash that I'd been saving since Christmas, and that model was the one Consumer Reports recommended, and it was on a good sale because the next year's models are coming out now.

I finally got to set it up yesterday, and I opened up the manual and inside I found a copy of the GPL and the LGPL. Because my TV uses free software. Now, I'm sure not all the software on the TV is free, and that's one of those battles that Richard Stallman will probably continue to fight, but honestly, if major manufacturers are including Free Software, and as a consequence, the GPL in their products, I think the war is going pretty darn good.

Thanks, Mr. Stallman, for making our world a better place.

HGTV

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:55:27 GMT

There's something quite hypnotic about watching house buying shows on HGTV. I'm not sure if it's just because we're going through this process right now, if it's the reality TV angle (this is an actual person making a huge financial decision), or just the fact that looking at housees is kind of fun, but man, it's addictive.

Of course, when they go to Italy I can't help but get sucked in.

Ummmm. A new house. A new tv. A new class?

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:44:46 GMT

We're hopefully moving sometime in the next two weeks. This is unclear, because the bank has decided to be the slowest ever in granting us a loan. We have good credit and a full 20% down payment, so things should be okay, but the whole world has decided that now is a good time to refinance (they're right) and so it's clogging up the works. So, hopefully sometime in the next week our bank will come back to us and tell us that they will in fact loan us the largest some of money I've ever contemplated and we'll then be in debt to them for the next 30 years.

And then we'll move into our house. Which will be suh-weet. Then, we'll put hundreds of dollars into fixing the gutters which the original builder didn't do. And we'll get to do all kinds of fun maintenance things. And we'll get to setup the large LCD TV I just bought. We've never owned a TV which wasn't donated to our family before. Our current TV sits on a stand which a friend of mine pulled out of the garbage. It's literally a piece of garbage that has been in our living room for the last 4 years. On top of it sits another TV that a different friend gave us as they were going into the Peace Corps. They came back prematurely, but assured us they didn't want it back. We watch design shows on HGTV sometimes on it, and they say, "We've painted this wall a nice blue color" and we look at each other and go: "I never knew that blue was so green." The TV doesn't work great. So, I saved up a bunch of money and bought a new fangled HDTV flat panel thingee which will be arriving at the in-laws in a few short days. It will go into the new house. We might even buy something that's not a literal piece of garbage for the TV to sit on.

Then, I might start taking an auto repair class because in Salt Lake all the school districts have all these cool community education classes. Thesis writing, you ask? Aren't you supposed to be writing your thesis this spring? Yes, yes I am. But, the class meets once a week for 4 hours, and I'm gonna be using my really old (but also suh-weet) 1988 Toyota Camry to drive back and forth to Provo from our new house once school starts back up in the fall, so the car kind of needs to be in good repair, and an auto repair class would help me learn how to do that. So, I think I can probably still write my thesis and take and auto repair class. Maybe.

We'll see. Maybe that's just a ridiculous idea. I mean, me? An auto repairer? I'm just not sure.

House buying.

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:29:58 GMT

You know how Congress is all trying to stop house prices from dropping too much because people are going into foreclosures and stuff? (see here if you don't know what I'm talking about). As somebody who's in the market as a home-buyer right now, I've got two words to describe this idea: terribly bad. The problem with the home market right now is that we've had a bubble and so things are horribly over-priced. People got these false inflated notions of their homes' values and now refuse to sell them for what they're worth, or think that they can sell total crap and it's a great value. If you saw the number of not really ready to sell houses that I've seen in the last two months, you'd agree. It's crazy what some people are trying to pass off as worth the price of a home. In this particular case, being in the market, I can't help but think that government intervention (as with the American car market) is just gonna prolong the problem instead of fixing it because the market has spoken: houses are overpriced. Seriously, if you saw these houses...

My wife, the domestic goddess.

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:34:11 GMT

I just want to share with you two quick things about how amazing my wife, Melissa (mhuff) is.

She decided on Saturday that she wanted a new skirt. So she sewed one. And wore it on Sunday. It took her about... oh... an hour. That's amazing. I wish I could be like, "I wish I had a new <insert piece of clothing>" and then just go make it. Also, for Christmas, she sewed toy diggers for the two boy cousins in the family (Caleb is one of them.) How amazing is that?
She made this incredible set of _pizza_ rolls. Now, if you know me, you know I love pizza. The pizza roll is not one of those crappy Little Gino's things, oh know. It's a full on delicious piece of dough wrapped around pineapple, pepperoni and pizza sauce. And it's phenomenal.

Yeah, that's it. My wife. The amazing domestic goddess.

*resumes eating pizza roll*

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:12:23 GMT

Things I've done with my Christmas break:

Enjoy lots of quality time with the fam (I love you, sweets! I love you, buddy!).

Install a power switch in the marantz.

Eat lots of sweets.

Watch lots of movies.

Watch lots of TV.

Lolly gag about.

Sleep in.

Read some Neal A. Maxwell.

Play some video games.

Ski.

Sled.

Try and buy a house (with varying levels of success).

Hack on the thesis (with varying levels of success).

Exercise a few times

Hack on some emacs code.

Hack on the arduino.

Drive to Salt Lake like 40 times.

Things I haven't done that I probably should have during my Christmas break:

Spend less time fiddle farting about and more quality time with the fam.

Exercise enough.

Read enough.

Work on thesis enough.

And that's all. Tomorrow I turn 30. Wish me luck.

A Confession.

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:14:53 GMT

Sit back, relax, and I'll tell you my sins.

A long, long time ago... Maybe 6-7 years. I was at the DI. (The DI is the Mormon equivalent of a Salvation Army store.) I'd been shopping the DI for months, hoping to chance upon one of these, a Marantz stereo. My buddy had one, and he said they showed up at the DI fairly regularly if you shopped long enough... So, there I am, shopping at the DI, when my buddy comes up to me and says, "Hey! I found a Marantz!" He'd been shopping in another part of the store and had seen the stereo and came and got me. Then he told me a story. He'd been eyeing the Marantz and was talking to a guy who was also eyeing it. The guy said, "I'm not sure about this," and my buddy said, "They're sweet little machines." "I don't have the $5 though," the guy said. "Too bad, they're pretty sweet!" my buddy said. Then the guy got a little glint in his eye and said, "Watch this!" and picked up the marantz and slid behind a little employees only area and put it back in the back part of the store where customers aren't allowed. When he stepped back around he said, "I'll go get some money and be back." And then my buddy came and got me. And I decided that I wanted the Marantz, so I asked the people in charge if the guy was allowed to keep things back there, they said no, and put it back on the shelf. So I took it to the front and paid my $5.

I've tried to rationalize my behavior in a lot of ways. But basically I snatched up the Marantz like it was going out of style (well, technically it _had_ gone out of style 20 years earlier..., but you get my drift.) when somebody else had left eagerly to return and buy it and then founnd it bought. Everytime I think about this story I feel a big twinge of guilt.

The Marantz in question had a lot of problems: it's missing a few switches, it has a busted speaker protection relay that needs to be cleaned, and it had a short-circuited power switch leaving it in a constant state of being on. The only way to turn it off is to unplug it, and in our current setup, that's not really possible.

So, over the last couple of days, I've been trying to find a way to get in and clean the speaker protection relay (it makes the speakers cut in and out all the time: pretty annoying) and trying to find a way to get a power switch in that sucker. I managed to get a power switch in this morning, despite a comedy of errors involving me: slicing both of my index fingers open, and burning my left thumb and index finger on a soldering iron. I also don't really have big enough solder or a hot enough soldering iron to make the kinds of solders that the thing has inside, but what I did should be good enough in a pinch, I think. If the solder melts and slips off the connections I made to the switch should still be viable.

But no matter how much I tweak the marantz (I found a neat site that gives all sorts of sweet repairs and mods you can make to them to get them back to working condition), I think I'll probably always feel a twinge of guilt everytime I look at it.

A Christmas List

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:57:10 GMT

A Christmas List: Big Ticket (>$100 — in no particular order):

Medium Ticket: ($30 - $100 — in no particular order):

Small ticket: (<$30 — in no particular order):

A Gamecube controller and memory card
See my amazon wishlist for a lot of these
An electric guitar case
Lightweight, waterproof material for making a backpacking tent
Zildjian Bill Stweart Artist Series Signature Drumsticks
A few more (at least to 3 more needed, feel free to get just 1) treehouse sets

And that's enough for now. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:51:16 GMT

And I hated some behavior the new url bar had. If you're like me (which most of you probably aren't) you have like 10 thousand windows open and sometimes you start typing a URL and need to switch to another widow quickly (apple-tab in Mac OS X, alt-tab in pretty much every other windowing system ever) to figure out the rest of the URL you're typing. I do this like a hundred times a day: I start typing a URL (http://....) and forget the rest of the URL I'm trying to get to. Under the default firefox 3 settings on OS X, the url bar (location bar, address bar whatever) auto-highlights whatever you're typing when you tab back to the window. Which means if you start typing the rest of the address it overwrites what you've already typed.

Most....

Annoying....

Feature....

Ever....

So, here's how you fix that:

In Firefox type this as the address:

about:config

And then click "Yes, I want to void my warranty" or whatever.

Then find the following settings:

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll

You can set it to false by double clicking on it.

Then find, right below it,

browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll

and double click that.

Now if you really _want_ to highlight the whole bar you can double click on it, but it won't auto-highlight the location bar by default when you tab away and tab back. Yay.

Godaddy. You pretty much suck.

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:21:46 GMT

And I won't recommend people use your hosting ever.

I spent a frustrating several hours over the last few days trying to get ftp connections working with godaddy's windows hosting for a side-job (a favor to a friend, really). Windows web hosting. I know. It's just a bad idea to begin with. Godaddy's is even more ridiculous.

We've had tons of issues with godaddy's servers. FTP has crapped out repeatedly for people besides me both with firefox and the mac os x ftp client. This means that also emacs doesn't work. So I spent about 20 minutes on the phone with their tech support this morning. And about 30 minutes this evening. That sucked. Also they weren't able to resolve anything they just said, "It's your fault."

I was pretty sure it was the fault of their servers... And... it turns out I was wrong. Sort of.

Mac OS 10.4 turns on some modern-ish ftp client settings by default. Those settings are incompatible with Godaddy's windows servers. Godaddy is apparently unaware of these kinds of things :)

So, Mac OS X 10.4 users, if you want to connect to windows ftp hosting with godaddy, do the following:

ftp <crappy godaddy server address>
Username: <username>
password: <password> 
epsv4 
site dirstyle

That'll get that your ftp client working. And it'll get you a more traditional style listing instead of that crappy msdos junk. And lastly, the pièce de résistance: Stuff to make emacs work with godaddy windows crap over ange-ftp:

(defvar crappy-godaddy-hosts '("<insert host here>"))

(defun ange-ftp-dumb-it-down-for-godaddy () 
(if (member host crappy-godaddy-hosts) 
(progn (ange-ftp-raw-send-cmd proc "epsv4") 
(ange-ftp-raw-send-cmd proc "site dirstyle"))))

(add-hook 'ange-ftp-process-startup-hook 'ange-ftp-dumb-it-down-for-godaddy)

And there you go.

Another business plan.

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:08:07 GMT

A sleeper-friendly bedroom door. No door is designed to be opened and closed quietly so as not to make a peep, disturbing a person potentially sleeping inside.

Design a door with non-noise producing hinges, with a knob that doesn't make a sound, and with some kind of latch that doesn't make a loud snapping noise when you haven't pulled the door completely shut, even when it seems like you have.

As an added bonus it wouldn't have a large gap underneath which lets lots of sound into the room. Doesn't have to be sound proof, just noise-reducing.

Please, oh wise entrepreneurs scouring the internet for ideas: take this idea, and make the door, and I'll buy some. Lots of them.

Politics.

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:22:06 GMT

I don't normally discuss politics on my blog, but here's a quick thought:

I'm an independent. I like John McCain. I like him a lot. I've been heavily leaning towards Obama for a long time. But there are a few things that McCain could have perhaps done to persuade me. Picking Lieberman as a running mate would have been one of them.

However, now that he's picked Palin, I'm kinda repulsed. I think Palin is kind of exactly like George W. Bush. Somebody with respectable ideals that if placed in the presidency would be out-classed by those surrounding them. Lately I've been thinking that I don't think George W. Bush has been the active purveyor of what's happened during the last 8 years of his administration. I've been feeling like his administration has been more tragic: he got sucked up by a bunch of bad advisors, his dad's old cronies, and he didn't know what to make of what they said or was not in a position to be able to contradict them. So his presidency has failed on so many levels precisely because he wasn't adept at leading. From where I sit as an average joe Amercian citizen, based on things like the bungled war on terrorism because of people like Rumsfeld and Cheney, it looks like he's not capable of saying (or at least at key junctures didn't stand up and say): "Person X I respect you but I'm not going to follow your advice right now, because I strongly believe in Z."

My biggest fear about Palin right now in this moment is that she'd be exactly the same way. She seems to be a very honorable person. But I don't see anything in her political CV that seems to say that she'd have the ability to discern between competing voices for her attention and then make the right choice, much like George W. Bush didn't. And I think more than anything that's what scares me the most: in the event of a (heaven forbid) McCain death in office, we'd be left with another George W. Bush-like president. I don't think we can handle any more of that in the next couple of terms.

However, this is just an impression after having known who this woman is for a week. I'd be happy to reconsider my impression of her upon weighing better evidence.

Business ideas.

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:10:57 GMT

I'm telling you, my idea for a bike-powered transcontinental pony-express like delivery serivce is ripe for the taking.

The long weekend is over, the summer has ended, the Rockmite is built!!!

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:26:35 GMT

It's been the best long weekend evah. On Saturday, we went kayaking with Jeremy and Jennie. I miss Jeremy. It was nice to catch up, to take Caleb out on the water, to throw rocks, to spend family time on the water in a kayak and just generally chill in nature.

We made our way back down the mountain, put Caleb down for a nap and then got ready to head to a baptism, which was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. I played the piano, and many people were very late, so I got to play about 30 minutes of prelude music. Or at least it felt that way. After that, we went shopping for outdoors equipment, which is my new hobby. We're taking the 11 year old scouts on a backpack in a mile and then camp trip at the end of the month, and so I need a pack. I may just borrow one from the in-laws, but it's fun to shop, anyway.

Sunday was sunday. The Shapiros came over and we broke out the wii, which reminded me how dang fun that thing is. We sort of took a wii hiatus during the olympics. Two new games are coming out or have already come out that I'm excited to play on it: Spore and Star Wars: the Force Unleashed. So, if I can play through some of my DS titles and trade them in for one or both of those in the near future, that'd be sweet.

Monday, today, has been awesome. We spent the rainy morning, walking through the mall. Then we took a 2 hour+ nap. It was _soooo_ nice. We finished the day with a hike to the top of the bottom layer of Bridal Veil Falls. The hike was a little scary at points, but it was way fun to hike with Caleb and Melissa. When that was done we played around at the bottom of the falls, which Caleb loved, though he got really cold feet. After that we went for a drive up South Fork Canyon, and found some sweet parks back there. We'll have to try hiking back there some time in the near future.

Lastly, I finished the old Rockmite tonight! I was really worried because I'm a total novice solderer, but I followed the guide provided by B. Scott Andersen. It was totally awesome for a total beginner like me. Anyway, last Saturday I spent like a gazillion hours soldering and tonight I spent about 2 or so hours soldering it. Then I had one 2-3 hour soldering session before that. So, all in all I think I've spent about 10-11 hours on the thing. I soldered some solder to the antenna jack and plugged in the iphone head phones, and plugged in my adjustable power adapter.... and heard nothing. Then after about a minute of feeling totally heart-broken, I reversed the power tip on the adapter and plugged it in and *bam* it worked!

So, all I heard was static, but I _did_ hear static, and the little keyer beeped, so I'm pretty sure things work. Next deal to do is to figure out how to squeeze the thing into an Altoids tin. And then I have to figure out what kind of antenna might actually let me receive a signal in these here intermountain parts. Then after I've started actually understanding real morse, I need to build paddles to see if I can actually send something out to somebody. We shall see, we shall see.

Tomorrow, work and thesis hours start. It's gonna be a long 4 months.

Taking the day off tomorrow.

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:22:24 GMT

Today was a pretty good day. Hiked the Y with Ben, Melissa's brother. Haven't made it all the way to to the top for a while, but there we were, right at the top.

Just posted a new version of squeeze.el which is what lets me control the mp3 player hooked up to the stereo from my text editor while I code. It's been broken since they updated the slimserver software for a while. I'm gonna try and add some more code to it eventually, because it's really useful, and I like it.

I've been listening to a lot more music lately, as fueled by my subscription to emusic.com. After a few months with them, I think I have to say that I miss having the album art and liner notes, but there's a wide enough variety of music on their site that I can always find something to download to fill up my monthly quota of 40 songs. It's gonna start filling up hard-drives soon, though, so I'll have to start shunting some stuff off to CDs or something.

Tomorrow is a day off. I'll hopefully get a bit of exercise bike in, and do a bit of reading. I've finally started reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon after all these years. I've liked the first 50 pages or so. I also might solder on my ham radio a bit. We were gonna go camping tomorrow night but it looks like that's gonna have the kibosh put on it due to a lack of good campground space.

Met with the Thesis Chair this week and we're all systems go for launching the thesis research this next semeseter, so it's looking like my time will be filled with statistics and phonetics for the next few months. Gonna do the (much) lesser of the two possible directions I could have gone. This is definitely the much more practical (though it's still computational historical linguistics so it's really far from practical) though, the other one would have been highly-theoretical uncharted territory on which it would have been easy to fail (though due to the high theory, easy to fake my way through). The thesis topic I'm choosing will be much more suited towards my varied background.

And that's the Paul Huff update for the night. I bid you adieu.