Events mentioned or described in Infinite Jest (1996) are listed below in chronological order based on textual evidence.

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If your levels and/or achievements have disappeared, here’s how to restore them with an older version of your bank file:

1. Go to this folder:
   C:\Users\user\Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts
\account number\1-S2-1-######\Banks\1-S2-1-334168\
2. Back up all the files in this folder (for example, copy them into a new subfolder).
3. Right click on MineralZBankStats.SC2Bank and go to Properties.
4. In the “Previous Versions” tab, select a version and click “Restore…” If there are no previous versions, you’re out of luck.
5. Start a new game of MineralZ Evolution and check your stats.

Update: The previous map folder was 1-S2-1-1319104. If you move that bank file over, your stats will be preserved.

Don’t forget to back up your bank file regularly after you level/cheevo up in case resets happen later.

Official sites:
mineralz.info – updates
mineralz-map.com – old forum
udmod.com – new forum

WordPress automatically converts your double line breaks into paragraphs. Here is how to disable this feature for all your posts.

Open these 3 files:

Insert the following below the line get_header();

For reference, see:

WordPress documentation on wpautop()
WordPress documentation on remove_filter()
WordPress documentation on the_content()

There’s an old program FTP Player Notes Manager which may not work currently. Merging player notes manually isn’t too cumbersome:

1. Close Full Tilt Poker.
2. Your player notes are located in
   C:/Program Files/Full Tilt Poker/username.xml

   (adjust for your install directory). Backup these files and put them in the same computer.

3. Each player note takes up a line that looks like this:
   <NOTE PlayerId=”Valikoski” ColourIx=”7″ Text=”idiot from Northern Europe” />

   These are the lines that matter to us, and we will leave the other lines at the top and bottom of each file alone. We want to avoid having duplicate players notes in the same file. If you know there are no duplicates, then just copy and paste all the <NOTE /> lines from one file to the other. Otherwise, see Wikipedia’s list of file comparison tools and use one of those programs to compare your player notes files. Copy and paste the extra notes from one file to the other.

4. I found that one of my files had its player notes in reverse order, so I had to use reverse the file before comparison. You can find another program to do this, or use the Linux command
   tac username.xml > reverse.xml
5. Save the merged file as
   C:/Program Files/Full Tilt Poker/username.xml

   and you are done.

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I had Fedora 12 in a logical volume taking up all the space in my hard drive. Here is what I did to shrink the Fedora partition and create a new partition for Windows 7. I am not an expert so I had to google for solutions to each problem, and I did not find any guide that covers all the steps.

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This is a chapter-by-chapter summary of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, intended for readers wanting to refresh their memory on previous chapters. The pages numbers are from the 2002 Avon Books paperback (ISBN 978-0-06-051280-4). It’s currently incomplete, with the second half of the book coming soon.

1 Prologue

28 November 1941, Shanghai. It’s a Friday afternoon, so the streets are crowded with coolies transporting boxes of bank bills. A boom from the river empties the streets of the coolies, but not the boxes and bamboo poles. Corporal Bobby Shaftoe of the Fourth Marines comes up with haikus for the event.

5 Barrens

A young Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse figures that his church organ must be very complex to be able to produce such complex music, and learns all about its mechanics. He majors in mechanical engineering at Iowa State College and plays glockenspiel in the band. He gets a scholarship to Princeton and befriends Alan Turing, who is building a machine to calculate values of the important Riemann zeta function. Alan proposal to have sex with Lawrence is rejected. There’s a German guy named Rudy whom Alan has sex with. When the three of them take a bike ride to the Pine Barrens, Alan tells Lawrence about:

• Principia Mathematica
• Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem
• Universal Turing machine

Alan thinks brains are Turing machines. Alan goes back to England and gets secret work. Due to his poor grades, Lawrence becomes a glockenspiel player in the Navy in Hawaii, but not before becoming published in a mathematical journal.

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In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein argues that pictorial form cannot be depicted. First, I explain the ontology, the picture theory of meaning, and the show-say distinction in the Tractatus before interpreting Wittgenstein’s argument. As his conclusion may be interpreted in multiple ways, I argue for the formulation “a picture cannot depict any state of affairs involving its pictorial form.” I show that his argument is similar to that of David Hume against the idea of the self, considering one possible objection.

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In Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke argues against the view that all necessary truths are a priori. Among the examples he gives to support his argument are necessary a posteriori truths and necessary truths that are not clearly a priori. His first example of the second type is Goldbach’s conjecture in mathematics. While all mathematical truths are commonly held to be necessary, those with unknown truth values are not obviously a priori. I will first discuss the distinctions between necessary/contingent and a priori/a posteriori. After I elaborate on Kripke’s argument, I will provide another mathematical example, the four colour theorem, that appears more convincingly not a priori. However, I will show that it is unknown that either example is truly necessary a posteriori.

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In Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley questions the common belief that there exist things independent of the mind. I will focus on his Master Argument. First, I will discuss the concepts of mind-independence, conceivability, and conception. These concepts are analyzed in a rather austere fashion in an attempt to pinpoint exactly what is being referred to. After this, a quick formulation of Berkeley’s Master Argument suffices for an understanding of it. Then, I will insert a temporal element into the argument, and use it to propose three types of possible counterexamples. It will be shown that while two of these types fail, one of them succeeds in refuting the Master Argument.

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