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Radio Rats

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Annie and I just got back from the radio station awards banquet. It was a semi-formal kind of thing, and they had pretty good food. When they started giving out awards, I got one for being the News Director, and Annie and I both got one for being in Troup O’ Monkeys (the acting group who put on War of the Worlds at the station). We were kind of expecting those, because they’re just paper certificates that they gave out to everyone who was on management or in Troupe O’ Monkeys. What we weren’t expecting was to get one of the nice plaques they gave out for the DJ awards. They didn’t give these to everyone, and we’re new enough that we didn’t think we would qualify. I’m not sure if we should be proud of the category we “won” in, though. Annie and I are now the award winning “Radio Rats.” This is meant to symbolize that we’re both constantly underfoot at the radio station, although the Program Manager assured me they meant it in a good way. Corey said it was also due to how much cheese we eat.

12:50: Press Return

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I just got back from Jill and Eric’s house. Under pressure from me, with backup from Annie and Corey, they agreed to watch Pi. Needless to say, I came home ready to do cutting-edge things with my computer (though I will probably settle for posting here and making a new hammerspace).

Jill and Eric didn’t seem to get much out of it. After the movie ended, they both had that overwhelmed sort of “what-the-hell?” look in their eyes. I was amped, Annie was happy because she had finally figured out where all the samples on the Pi soundtrack came from, and Corey was asleep.

I’m starting to wonder if this is one of those movies that only appeals to geeks (and ultra-religious Jews). I know the first time Miles and Steve and I all saw it, we all walked out completely excited. We practically ran back to the computer lab, with Miles and Steve excitedly babbling at each other about programming.

There’s just something about watching the main character build his own computer, and rack mount them by drilling holes through the motherboards and assembling his own tiny clean-room for his classified government prototype processor. It just gets you excited if you’re a geek.

“12:45, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.”