Nerdlife

As stated in my previous post, I will be starting (or trying to start) a polyphasic sleep cycle, specifically the Everyman variety, while at college and across timezones. Here’s how it’s going to work:

• I begin today, Monday, by sleeping from now (1AM PDT) until 5AM PDT and having a short nap at 9AM, 3PM, and 7PM PDT (my pathetic attempt to try to ease into things).
• I will finish off my week in California by taking 20 minute naps at 7AM, 2PM, and 7PM PDT and getting my core sleep from 12-3AM PDT.
• Once I go back to Carnegie Mellon I will shift my cycle back by 3 hours, meaning that I will have no jet lag (3 hour time difference from PDT to EDT), and my new schedule will fit nicely into my school schedule.
• I will consume no alcohol or caffeine, since that ruins the cycle.

At the very least it should be interesting. Now, time for bed.

Update: I do not plan on using this blog to post updates on this…I’ll probably use twitter for that. Also, I messed up my first day…*sigh*

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Well, I just spent the day at SuperHappyDevHouse 19. Some highlights of the evening:

• Having an hour-long conversation about dropping out of college, and again finding that everyone in the near vicinity feels that I should
• Meeting an entrepreneur in silicon valley younger than I am
• Being (easily) convinced by Chris Smoak (who doesn’t seem to have a blog…) that I am fully capable of implementing an Everyman sleep schedule while at college, which I intend to try
  • And realizing that Carnegie Mellon students/alum have almost as many internal acronyms as Yahoo.
• Having a few people actually have read my blog before I met them (very cool and infrequent occurrence)
• The “Hot Tub of Philosophy”

It’s definitely a great event worth checking out if you’re in the Bay Area, I know I’ll be going whenever I’m nearby.

Oh, and I found out via a former Facebook employee that Simon, the guy who sent me my Cease & Desist, is actually from customer service, not legal. What a shame…they couldn’t even take the time to sick a high-paid corporate lawyer on me…

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...
// NOTE(mcslee): ok, at this point we know we are going to display the full
// page, so it is time to do a PHATTY PHATTY MULTIGET of all the shit that
// we are going to need to make this page, or at least the most common things
...

Yea, so Simon from Facebook’s legal department sent a very nice Cease & Desist email politely demanding that I take down the code (note that I never implied anywhere on this site that it was Facebook’s code, nor have I broken any laws in obtaining said code), but I figured the above lines, used for the sake of comedy, are kosher. Funny how the last name in those parenthesis matches up with one of Facebook’s (and Google’s, and Motorola’s), though I of course imply no connection.

Sorry Simon for making you log on late on a Friday to send that email.

Completely Random Pretty Code From Nowhere in Particular (Removed due to Facebook’s very quickly sent Cease & Desist)

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We interrupt your normally pseudo-serious blog for a moment of hilarity.

Minesweeper : The Movie

Take a moment and play a game, you’ll have plenty of time for going crazy later.

And since I haven’t posted much of substance lately, here’s what’s coming up for all you eager folk:

• A wrapup from interning at Yahoo!
• Grad school: Is it worth it?
• A whole slew of ideas from my super-secret Page of Ideas^©

funny

Gizmodo UK : Oops, iPhone Display Needs to Reboot, Runs Windows XP

Gave me a good chuckle over an otherwise boring weekend.

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