It's been a while since I've blogged. Been busy with school. Physical Chemistry has been my hardest class and I'm getting an A… so far. The lab reports are insane, and we never to get our grades on them, only the final grade when we're done. Calc III is extremely easy, I'm getting an A and missing one class period per week.
Next semester is not looking so good. I have to take Molecular Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Instrumental Methods, and Diff. Eq. They are all at the same time.On the Game Maker front, my Simple Iso Map Maker has over 100 downloads. I really want to work on it some more, but I have no time. I can't figure out how to fix the perfomance issues either. It was too slow, so I moved a lot of stuff out of the step events. Now it just doesn't work right. Random freeze ups suck. If they weren't random, I could debug it, but I can't find a pattern to it.I have also decided to learn Python. I figure I'm gonna get a Linux system when I get my new computer, and Python runs on Linux, Windows, Apple, etc just fine. If I get good at it, I might be able to use it instead of Game MakerOh yeah, the BBC just reported about a 405 year old clam. Its shell is over 8 inches thick. Or centemeters, I can never tell with these Brits. The clam was perfectly healthy, no cancers, no diseases, good muscle strength. But when they went to count the rings to determine the age, they killed it. Way to go guys.
Python should be a good thing to learn. It's nicely supported in Blender, for one.
Aww…poor clam. Silly people. I don't quite believe it could live for 405 years, though. That sounds like either a phenomenon (which it seems to be) or a flat-out exaggeration. 8 inches, though…wow. If that's really true, that's something to marvel at.Then again, lots of crazy stuff happens in this crazy world. It's not all that difficult to believe.Th-they k-killed it?
*sobs in despair*Why you, Clammie, Why!?It didn't say shit about the shell thickness. Biyatch.
I sure as hell heard them say something about shell thickness. They had to cut it open to count the rings. They think they gather environmental data by examining the thickness and chemical composition of each ring. They named the clam Ming because the Ming dynasty was in power when the clam first hatched. But if you name it, you can't eat it.
Hmm…scientists. Once something catches their eye, they have to go operate…and kill things, whether purposely or accidentally. This clam could have lived longer, but our trusty scientists put an end to that.
Real smart. <_<That's "Vier und Sechszig"! :P
Awww, poor clam.
-agrees with Cesque-
Yeah, that is pretty cool, but it was just a clam, for crying out loud. Get over it.
In my German class it was fier. You must be speaking that bastardization of German, Austrian.
And there have got to be other clams out there. This isn't the only clam to have been found over 400 years old.