A very happy Easter to you all. For those of you at a Catholic or Christian University, you may find yourself with a long weekend (as I do). For those of you everywhere else (for example, the University of Minnesota, like my sister), you may find yourself with a normal length weekend. I hope you are still able to enjoy the holiday.

It’s Easter — do you know where your candy is? Or where I could find some full size Cadbury eggs?

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Jets shot water up to two stories straight up. Very fun to watch.

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I’ve been thinking that it might be a good idea to start a favorite songs list on occasion. The material’s sitting right there in my iTunes, ready to bore anyone who reads it. I’ll try to limit the list to an arbitrary number, to encourage myself to only pick the best. You know, maybe someone could glean something off the list. Anyhow, here we go:

1. George Winston, “Young Man’s Fancy” — Linus & Lucy: The Music Of Vince Guaraldi
2. Jack’s Mannequin, “I’m Ready” — Everything In Transit
3. The Format, “The First Single (You Know Me)” — Interventions and Lullabies
4. Andy Mckee, “Rylynn” — Art of Motion
5. The Killers, “When You Were Young” — Sam’s Town
6. Keane, “The Frog Prince” — Under The Iron Sea
7. Keane, “Crystal Ball” — Under The Iron Sea
8. Dave Barnes, “I Have and Always Will” — Chasing Mississippi
9. Neutral Milk Hotel, “The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One” — In An Aeroplane Over the Sea
10. Radiohead, “Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Can” — Amnesiac

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I don’t have class tomorrow. *So happy*. Just have to go in for labs on Friday and Monday. Hurrah!

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Love that neo-Gothic style. More information on the Tribune Tower.

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Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke - Since Marmaduke is essentially the anti-Calvin and Hobbes … you get websites like this. Writes the author on why he doesn’t even attempt to ridicule the Sunday strips:

I’ve wasted a big enough chunk of my time and energy on this godforsaken dog without having to risk madness trying to decipher Brad Anderson’s full-color fever dreams once a week. I hope you can understand, and if not, remember that this entire blog is both 100% free and really, really dumb to begin with.

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A 128-bit storage can address a rather lot of memory - I can’t explain the boiling oceans thing myself, so onwards with a quote:

To operate at the 10E31 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy. By E=mc2, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x10E28 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x10E21 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celcius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about 2.4x10E6 J/kg * 1.4x10E21 kg = 3.4x10E27 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans.

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