Saturday 19 March 2011

Celebrating St. Patrick's day

I'm two days late with this post, but it's been two busy days, so I'm excused :D
For St. Patrick's day I decided to prepare a green meal, so I baked a green lasagna: green lasagna pasta and green spinach (and cottage cheese) filling, topped with grated cheese, served on a plate with a green rim. I love how simple and fast the recipe is and how great the result tastes :) Here are some pics of it:As the day wasn't green enough for us, Ana and me watched The Green Hornet. It's a weird movie. Not that the acting is bad, the characters are weird. It's a nice laugh, I guess. To cut it short: I don't recommend it, but I don't not recommend it either.

Sunday 13 March 2011

Pkmn Black: Second gym and forward

The second gym specializes in normal types. And again the game is kind enough to provide an area just outside the city, where you can catch three different fighting pokemon. Remember the first generation, where the only thing against Brock were your starter, a bug depending on the version and Pikachu?
Another great change is the new itemfinder/dowsing machine. It was already better in HGSS, where you could walk around with the itemfinder constantly pressed, and now it's even better you don't even need to press it, but it works automatically and startspinging when a hidden item is nearby.
Now I'm chasing team plasma in Pinwheel Forest.
Current team: Tepig, evolved Lilipup, the blue judo guy, Munna, grass monkey, Poliwag's ripoff

Friday 11 March 2011

Complex numbers in Java

Our last programming homework had us write a Java class to implement some operations with complex numbers. As I found it pretty interesting, I'm sharing my file on here.
Examples of usage are in comments in the file. If anyone has any questions or suggestions on how to make it better, feel free to drop a line here or on email.
ComplexNumber.java

Thursday 10 March 2011

Pkmn Black: After the first gym

I managed to put in some more playtime into Pokemon Black and got my first badge yesterday, whoohoo! :D I liked the animation after obtaining it. Also it's a nice thing to have the gym leader use a type advantage against you, even nicer to get a type advantage against him for free :D What I don't like is the absence of the "button" that enables you to run by default, as in HG/SS. That was really a great addition, shame they took it away. I really don't know why can't they leave all the good stuff introduced in previous generations.
I got to the city with the second gym (sorry, don't know the names yet), but haven't challenged the gym leader yet - I'm taking it slow, level-upping and capturing everything on the way.

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Pokemon Black

Yesterday I finally got my Pokemon Black! I chose the Black version because of its more technological tone (as I'm studying computer science). I haven't been able to put much playtime in it yet, as I'm busy with school right now, just an hour or two. So far I must say I like the new battle screen, all the zooming around, but I'm disappointed with the zoom. What's this pixelated view? I'm not playing Blue, I'm playing Black!
Now back to my homework.

Sunday 6 March 2011

New semester

It's been two weeks since the new semester has started. Before it started we got a timetable that was full of bugs (overlapping classes, two courses in the same classroom in the same time), so these first two weeks were like some kind of beta testing, where we, the students, were beta testers and the school issued some patches. Now we finally got a (more or less) stable version, which is not very user friendly (twice I have classes almost the whole day, once only one hour).
I have five new subjects this semester: Linear algebra, Databases basics, Programming and algorithms, Computer communications and Human-computer communication. I am mostly excited about the latter one, as it combines psychology and computer science.