I’m finally back.
OK, so, I’ve been back from summer camp for about two weeks, but my mom had a “family” vacation planned for this past week, so I was just going to start blogging again when I got back from vacation. There’s a few things that I am going to discuss this post, such as what’s been going on with me the past 3 months :D.
First off was summer camp. There weren’t that many computers up there at a non-internet enabled camp, but when there were issues or training to be done, they came to me. The commissary director left mid-season with no warning, and he left a highly complex Microsoft Access Database behind that ran the commissary that I had to pick through and figure out how to use to train the new director. I’m also in charge of doing the staff ID badges for next year in the off season. The business manager wanted to get all of the camp computers flash drives to store sensitive data, so I went with her to Staples and found a pretty good deal on a pack of three 1GB drives by PNY, and at the same time I picked up my U3 1GB flash drive for about 25$. What is U3? Well, it is a new technology that allows flash drives to carry around U3 enabled programs (such as Firefox, and Open Office) and use them on any computer that I need to use them on without installing software on that computer. The U3 technology also allows the whole drive to be password protected, which I really like. That’s the extent of the summer camp technology experiences.
(My mom would kill me if she read this next paragraph) Next on the list is the “vacation.” I realize that my mom tried her hardest to make it fun for everyone, but why in the world did he boyfriend have to come along? It wouldn’t have been as bad had I known, but I didn’t find out until about 24 hours before we left. That’s about all that I can say on that specific topic without dropping expletives :). Oh, and contrary to “popular” (my mom’s) belief, the kid’s portions at “Cracker Barrel” are definitely not the same size as the adult’s.
We went to a waterpark a few days ago. Nashville Shores (http://www.nashvilleshores.com). The ride called the “Big Scream” is fun. It’s an elongated half pipe, where you go down on a tube on one side, go almost to the top on the other side, and go back and forth until gravity pulls you to a stop on the bottom. I hold the current record for most rides in one day, 36. That was fun.
Before we left on vacation, I joined PrimeNet in the search for the first 10,000,000 digit prime number. There is a 100,000$ prize for finding the first one, but that’s beside the point. The mere notion of finding all of the primes that http://mersenne.org has found has required millions of CPU hours using parallel processing (see future post). It is estimated that my computer will take about 2 months just to check one 10,000,000 digit number, so I’m not expecting too many miracles.
That’s about it for now. I’m getting tired. I may post more tomorrow.
See everyone later,
Aaron Liske
P.S. I’m getting glasses.
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:42 am
Glasses?? Actually, tht’s not a bad thing as I think you’ll look good in them! Just keep track of them, that’s all I ask.
Sounds like an “interesting” vacation. Almost 18 and having to eat “kids’ portions” … wow … come on over, doode, I’ve got some nice big steaks for ya’ today.