The song “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO has almost 690,000,000 views. What is this world coming to? But, I got a quadcopter last week! It’s 3D Robotics’ quadcopter kit. Which is a very nice kit, but let me warn you it includes neither a PPM R/C system nor a battery, both of which are required to make it run. So if you get one be sure to get those also, unless you can rewrite the firmware to not have that necessity.

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Sort of. The great thing about college is that it just keeps on going. Like the Energizer bunny. So this blog has turned into a place where I marvel at the high usage of my proxy. Below is a graph of the rolling 7-day average for the past couple months: Note how a record high was hit a couple days ago, crossing 200,000 hits/day, rolling average. Prior to this peak, I had never seen 200,000 hits in a single day.

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One more year of being a teenager to go! I better start more raves. And drinking. And smoking. And sexing. etcetera. No fun technical article today, sorry. Too busy making ice cream and eating yummy pizza.  

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Happy Easter! Good hunting to all of you egg-hunters. My family raises chickens, so we get all the eggs we want. One of the (many) things I like about Ubuntu is that when I’m doing a major OS upgrade, it runs in the background so I can blog and catch up on XKCD. As promised, here’s some links to Pong and 2048 for LEAP: http://pillow.rscheme.org/pong/ http://pillow.rscheme.org/2048/ The 2048 version doesn’t require a LEAP device to play.

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Pong, for Leap! Stay tuned, I’ll post it on my site at some point, along with 2048 for Leap. In other news, I’m going to give up blogging for the remainder of Lent. So far this year I’ve averaged 1 post a week, so I figure if I’m going to break that pattern I might as well come up with a good reason. Lent is my reason. See ya’ll  

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A friend lent me his Leap Motion device! So much happiness. So little time. This post is dedicated to my poor boss - I promise that, no matter how little I may work now, I will pay back your tolerance someday. Hopefully later this week, probably this summer. Check out 2048 for Leap here: https://github.com/lkolbly/2048 You control the game by swiping left, right, up, and down. It’s shockingly easy to setup, considering what it does - it took me around a half hour to get their examples to run, and then it was only another hour to figure out their API enough to get 2048 wired into it.

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Correction from last week: The peak time is not around midnight. It’s actually closer to 6 in the evening: Google Charts, to the rescue. That chart displays the logins (remote and local) from the past week, pulling from about 700,000 records. (1 “record” is 1 user logged in for 15 minutes) The past week has been productive, so a just quick list of things that now exist. First, my Solar Calendar generator:

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This week I started work on a system to record the usage of the assorted labs at UT’s CS department. It’s a similar system as what they have at http://utcslabs.org/ (UPDATE 2017: Broken link), except that mine actually works and will remember data going into the past. As a preview snapshot, here’s a graph of the number of total logins at UTCS versus time: It has a little bit of noise in it, but the interesting thing to note is that the peak login time is ostensibly around midnight at 160 concurrent logins, dropping to between 5 and 20 logins just before noon.

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Without going into too much detail, I’m working on a game. One of the integral parts of said game is that you rule a galactic empire, having to deal with speed-of-light delays between your colonies. For debugging purposes, I created a ship that could travel faster than light. One of the ramifications of this is that it arrived at its destination, and then was able to create a colony that received word of the creation of an original colony.

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What do these three have in common, you ask? I’m using all three together. GitHub is giving out free private repositories to people with .edu email addresses. I have one, but I don’t use it except when I want free stuff from companies. Jenkins is an open-source Java continuous integration system, which means that it “continually integrates” code. That is, whenever I write code it automatically compiles and tests it. On Ubuntu, you can apt-get install jenkins (after you add the PPA), and it will install and start on its own.

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