#kwarrtz

So far I mostly have embarrassing fanfics of another worm/harry potter fanfic...

Well, that and the occasional Weird Post On Here, like the one about subsurface oceans and not being an alien deep underwater on earth who resents humans and their easy access to the sky

ive been putting off actually writing something until I like. Finish this thing I was hoping to finish. But now that I’m closer to that, and it seems much more disappointing from up close, I’m thinking that perhaps I should be working on multiple projects simultaneously.

We’ll see how it goes. Stay Tuned.

8: do you change into specific clothes for the house when you get home?

haha no I'm a gremlin who is most comfortable in day clothes. There was a period of several years where I slept in jeans. I will at most just shuck some outer layers but I am also like this after I wake up and before I leave the house, until I am wearing day clothing I feel like some kind of escaped wild animal.

9: do you have a skincare routine (and how many steps is it)?

I like a specific Eucerin Dermopure skin cleanser for my face. Aqueous Benzoyl Peroxide cream is really good for acne so I use that whenever I see something coming up, and my only Insanely Bougie skin thing is the L'Occitane Amande hand cream which I buy in the biggest tube you can get. Smells great and has a particular soft but not oily texture I really like. Other than that my skin care is mainly the cheapest commodity skin moisturizer and shower gel you can find from the major cosmetics manufacturers.

23: do you wear jewelry?

Not until quite recently, a couple months back I picked up a set of pride wristbands that I now wear almost every day.

oh that is one of my pieces of memorabilia from when we did the ISC2019 Student Cluster Competition. Which I suppose answers 1), I actively seek out Nerd Experience Points.

As for 2), While we were setting up our compute cluster, we also set up all our booth decorations which included some mylar balloons spelling out "CHPC", a cheap RGB light string we had way back in selection rounds, and a South African Flag.

The actually real official corporate booths had these little fancy poster board signs from Intel showing off that they were using various grades of Xeon processors. As it so happened, our cluster had a dozen 8180 Xeon Platinum processors in it, and so of course we knew we had to have one.

So, we went off, found the Intel table, and asked them if we could pretty please have one for our cluster. They ended up giving us two, and I brought this one home once we were done.

Those 8180's were ten thousand dollars a piece, 28-core monsters, and we almost didn't get them: we actually had to get our supervisors to ask Intel to lend them to us, since our usual sponsors cut our budget and only gave us 18-core Gold tier processors. Bah, only Gold? A meager 3500 dollars each? Ridiculous. We were also totally right in asking for them, in the end we only won by two percentage points, there's no way we would have won on those Golds.

Other memorabilia I have from that competition includes the Geeko plush that the OpenSUSE reps gave us. He hangs from my desk light and serves as a pincushion these days.