Last night Marisa and I went to a performance by Lady Antebellum, with Thompson Square and Darius Rucker opening. At the HP Pavillion. I had forgotten how awful the acoustics are there. Massive reverb, and a closed roof contributing to the cheap-speakers-way-over-driven effect. Which was very unfortunate. But nonetheless the show was entertaining. It just… Read more
Battery life is indeed something of an issue. I can no longer just juice it for an hour or two a day, like with my iPad 2 – instead, it really needs all night to charge. And the battery life is at best the same as the iPad 2. So it doesn’t feel as untethered… Read more
I really like the text rendering on my iPad 3. Yes, it’s ostensibly much the same as the iPhone 4 I’ve had for a while. But it’s not. The relatively huge screen makes a world of difference. So I’ve changed the font of this ‘ere website to something that looks nicer on the iPad 3. It… Read more
In the interests of SCIENCE! I signed up for the Machine Learning course that Stanford was planning to offer online. That apparently fell through, so I jumped ship to Game Theory instead. Which started as of a weekish ago. It’s an interesting idea, and I suspect that the existence of tests and problem sets will… Read more
Urgh… the downside of a new iPad is that I now have to put up with the horrible process of getting my music onto it. In the so-called bad old days, I’d sync it to iTunes. It’d take an hour or two and then it’d be done. But that’s not how we do things in… Read more
I’ve been playing Settlers 7 for a few weeks now. I’m on the last campaign level now. It’s immensely frustrating at times because it’ll often crash on launch repeatedly, requiring a restart of the whole computer before it’ll get going. It’ll also crash occasionally when in the game. Nonetheless it is entertaining. It’s been a… Read more
Who delivers an iPad 3 at 2:45 PM on release day? I mean really… And then it takes two hours to sync all my crap to it. Makes it a little awkward to really enjoy that “oooh shiny!” moment. But it’s here, and done, and good to go. It is noticeably heavier than my iPad… Read more