Strange electronics...

It has been my custom to place my VAIO into "Stand By" mode when turning it off for the day. Yesterday, after doing so, I decided to speak with Drew, and during our phone call, the VAIO suddenly "woke up." I have no idea why. (Actually, I have a suspicion of a suspicion, but I need to think about it some more.)

Before hitting the sack, however, I did a little browsing using my BlackBerry, and when I finally went to sleep, the battery indicator showed about 40% charge left in the device. The phone beeped twice during the night, which had never happened before, and the only thing I could tell that may have prompted the noise was the arrival of email (except that email arrival normally doesn't result in noise, except for priority messages, and this morning, when I checked, the sound played for priority messages was not what I heard during the night).

However, when I went to connect to the Internet this morning, I found the phone had apparently turned off its wireless capability, and the battery charge level stood at 1%! (I'll bet the tones were announcements of "low-battery" and "turning off wireless.")

Things are more or less back to normal now... I think I'll let the phone charge off my VAIO's USB port while I get ready for my time at the MSR, which starts in a couple of hours.

Cheers...

I have a strange sense of humor...

I just happened across a description, written in fine computer-science-ese, of something called an "Intelligent Design Sort." The algorithm description is as follows:

Algorithm Description. The probability of the original input list being in the exact order it's in is 1/(n!). There is such a small likelihood of this that it's clearly absurd to say that this happened by chance, so it must have been consciously put in that order by an intelligent Sorter. Therefore, it's safe to assume that it's already optimally Sorted in some way that transcends our naïve mortal understanding of "ascending order". Any attempt to change that order to conform to our own preconceptions would actually make it less sorted.

I think it's actually kinda funny.

Cheers...