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So 420chan is raiding GD and ED. Who knows where they'll go next. Doesn't matter cause I'm going to bed. I'll see the aftermath when I wake up.

Now the pictures comparing day and night (as well as fast shudder speed and slow)
Here are the day time pictures I took


The nighttime ones are expectedly darker.

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That last one was the sky if you couldn't tell. The pictures posted up to now were taken with a 1/200 second exposure and an ISO film speed setting of 50.
This next picture was taken with the film speed at 400, and with a 15 second exposure.

In the original image, you could even make out some stars in the upper left hand corner that didn't survive the scaling too well. In this image they look more like grain (but it's still possible to see them).
This next one is a picture of the moon (straight up at the time) and some stars with the same settings

Here's a picture of the moon with the daytime settings



The next pictures demonstrate a very bright background with a dark foreground (On the moon the foreground was very bright and the stars were dark)

The first picture was taken to see what's outside, and the room is too dark to see any detail.


This one had a longer exposure (and is blurry due to my lack of a tripod gonk ). You can see the room more clearly (sort of) but the window and even the monitor are overexposed.


Comparing this to the moon landing photos, the moon would be like my window, and the stars would be like my room.

I have 10k gold again.

and I woke up at 10:00, and ended getting to school at 10:30 (after the midterm had already passed), so I am [********] PISSED. So now I've got two hours out because my shitty alarm clock didn't go off, and I have to find time to take the mid-term. LOVELY.

It sure was interesting too, and I never saw it coming. It started with Media Player crashing when it tried to play a movie. I thought it was the pre-rendered DirectX 10 videos at first though, so I didn't pay it any attention. Then Visual Studio lost half of my keyboard (as in it didn't respond to backspace/arrow keys/tab/anything useful that wasn't alpha-numeric). After a few reinstalls of Visual Studio I decided to get some anti-virus software and do a scan. It said that there were some errors in some .exe and other files. So I ran the .exes it reported about, and they crashed in the same way Media Player did. So I ran Media Player and opened a movie I had made and knew worked, and it crashed. I ran one more scan with on the most sensitive setting so it would pick up anything. After the scan, it reported some files that the "system could not open". That didn't sound good. One of those was an Oblivion mod so it was easy to check. I ran Oblivion, and on the pre-load before the main menu it froze. Fun. At this point it started to become clear that these were hard drive problems. So I ran ScanDisk to repair any bad sectors. It reported quite a few, many of which matched up with the files the anti-virus couldn't open. Cool. Oblivion worked fine now. But after another reinstall of Visual Studio, nada. Same deal, half missing keyboard. Not cool. This was pretty bad. The next day (today) I ran a disk check from the BIOS. Well, you know how those work. They always have weird codes for everything that you have to look up, but I knew it was bad when the result of the scan had the word "fail" in it. Really not cool. I had already begun backing up for a reformat, so I just updated the backup folder, compressed it and put it on my flash drive. I went to the school's tech guy and got my hard drive replaced. So now I get to reinstall everything!




crying

PS: Firefox 2 has spell check! It's so cool!

~_@
Not the most pleasent thing that could have happened while taking a shower, but definatly not the worst.

Througout history humans have longed for immortality. Whether it be by divine power, science, alchemy, or an afterlife, it has been sought by many people. In this day and age however, it seems that most people have accepted our mortal nature. But people still strive for the immortality of the human race. Even if a person dies, he expects humans to live beyond him indefinitly. I've most recently seen this in a Global Warming debate. People will do whatever than can to ensure the suvival of humans. While that isn't a bad thing, It's kind of naive to think we as a species will live on forever. At some point we will end, whether it be with the universe, or far before then.

Someone in that debate stated that the planet will deteriorate even without us. In response, another person asked "Why must the planet deteriorate?". Because that is the nature of the universe. Living beings can be described as entropy machines of varying magnitudes. We expend energy and ultimatly turn it into it's most innefficient form. Even without us, the molten core of the Earth would someday cool and the planet would, in a sense, die.

Oddly enough, the most suitable quote I can think of is from the Matrix: "everything that has a beginning has an end." We have a beginning, and someday, we will end.

I really should go to bed. Get some actual sleep, and stop by Best Buy in the after noon to see if they have the FMA movie.

It's 4:17 AM now...Maybe I should get to bed...