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Day 4 post-op for Achilles’ tendon repair surgery

Today’s Friday, 7/20/2018; I had the operation on Monday. I made a couple Youtube videos before and after the operation describing it.  According to the surgeon, it went well. My leg is in a dressing from just below the knee to the tips of my toes, which it will be in until my followup visit on July 26th. At that point I expect to get another full-calf dressing/cast. I can’t put any weight on the left leg at all, which has been fairly annoying so far. After ~3 weeks I should get transitioned to the boot for another 9 weeks.

Here’s the videos I have so far:

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Java compound interest calculator

I wrote a thing to calculate compound interest and print out how much you’ve accrued after each period. It’s pretty basic but I was bored and didn’t want to do it via calculator. The code is in InterestCalculator.java, sample output is below: 

Initial principal: 5000.00
Interest rate:     0.05 (4.93%)
# of ann. periods: 4
Total years:       5
Annual Addition:   500.0
Starting year 1 with $5000.00
Year 1, period 1, accrued $61.62, value is now: $5061.62
Year 1, period 2, accrued $62.38, value is now: $5124.01
Year 1, period 3, accrued $63.15, value is now: $5187.16
Year 1, period 4, accrued $63.93, value is now: $5251.09
Added $500.00 for the end of year 1, total is now: 5751.09
Starting year 2 with $5751.09
Year 2, period 1, accrued $70.88, value is now: $5821.98
Year 2, period 2, accrued $71.76, value is now: $5893.73
Year 2, period 3, accrued $72.64, value is now: $5966.37
Year 2, period 4, accrued $73.54, value is now: $6039.91
Added $500.00 for the end of year 2, total is now: 6539.91
Starting year 3 with $6539.91
Year 3, period 1, accrued $80.60, value is now: $6620.51
Year 3, period 2, accrued $81.60, value is now: $6702.11
Year 3, period 3, accrued $82.60, value is now: $6784.71
Year 3, period 4, accrued $83.62, value is now: $6868.34
Added $500.00 for the end of year 3, total is now: 7368.34
Starting year 4 with $7368.34
Year 4, period 1, accrued $90.81, value is now: $7459.15
Year 4, period 2, accrued $91.93, value is now: $7551.08
Year 4, period 3, accrued $93.07, value is now: $7644.15
Year 4, period 4, accrued $94.21, value is now: $7738.37
Added $500.00 for the end of year 4, total is now: 8238.37
Starting year 5 with $8238.37
Year 5, period 1, accrued $101.54, value is now: $8339.90
Year 5, period 2, accrued $102.79, value is now: $8442.69
Year 5, period 3, accrued $104.06, value is now: $8546.75
Year 5, period 4, accrued $105.34, value is now: $8652.09
Added $500.00 for the end of year 5, total is now: 9152.09
Final value: $9152.09
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Java utility to reorganize photos by date taken (via EXIF metadata)

I wrote a little utility to reorganize my digital camera pics based on the EXIF date-taken data stored in the pic. It’s pretty simple, I hacked it together in about an hour,
but I thought it might be worth sharing for anyone else looking to do something similar. My camera organizes stuff as it sees fit sometimes, I am particular about my directory structure. This is probably a job best left to perl, but I don’t feel like getting Perl running on my Windows box where all the pics are. Now I can finally burn all my images to DVD.

  • Drew Noakes’s Metadata Extractor – this is
    a required library used to do the actual reading of the exif data.

  • FileOrganizer.java – Abstract base class that moves
    files from a source to a target directory based on criteria specified in the subclass.
  • JpegFileOrganizer.java – Subclass that
    accepts jpeg files and generates the correct path based on the EXIF data stored
    in the image’s header. So if picture pic00001.jpg was taken on August 20, 2004, and the supplied
    target directory is “/pics”, the directory to which the image would be moved would be
    /pics/2004/08/20/pic00001.jpg.

The main() method is in JpegFileOrganizer, its arguments are [sourceDir] [targetDir].

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It’s been a long time!

It’s been quite a while since my last post here. My life has changed so much since then. It’s almost funny to go back and read the things I wrote while working in the city. That was one of the most miserable periods in my life. There’s so much stuff going on, but I really hate posting personal stuff on the Internet. It always seems to come back and bite you in the ass.

I still don’t understand the popularity of MySpace. Xanga is a much better site in general for posting written content. MySpace is populated by retarded kids who think embedding videos is the most awesomest thing to do on the Internets.

Anyway, I’m still around, though I rarely write or visit this site.

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Apocryphal post #4

This is not a “blog.” I hate that term and always have. This is just my page, which I update manually by SSHing to this box and typing all this text in vi. I don’t use any fancy schmancy “content management” stuff, that’s for newbs.

So Christmas has come and gone, I got an Xbox (not 360, which is crap). I used a soft-mod tutorial on it because I have no interest in playing Microsoft’s crappy offerings, and I’m cheap. So I put Xbox Media Center on it and a bunch of emulators, and relived the joy of The Legend of Zelda for NES on my Xbox. I got up to level 5 in a couple of hours. I got a few other emulators running on it, including Xenesis and Surreal64, and I played Zelda64 for a bit as well, though the emulator does some weird stuff with the graphics.

I also decided to put up this Amazon affiliat store crap that I wrote a long time ago that’s just been rotting on my repository machine. Maybe I can make some side cash this way! Some recommended products: