Yearly Archives: 2007

don’t give ‘im the stick!

I have finished my last class of the semester! Now I’ve just got finals to look forward to next week, and they’re distributed pretty evenly, too. I’ve got one Monday, one Tuesday, and two Thursday, so I’ve spaced out my studying plans appropriately. It sucks that my hardest final, microcomputer organization, will [...]
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a bloomin’ onion and a sore nose

The girls and I had a good time last night. We waited for almost an hour to get into the restaurant because it’s one of the few places around town where you can get a good meal cheap. We ordered a bloomin’ onion as an appetizer and I am about to find out [...]
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human statues

When leaving my apartment earlier to go hang out with Todd and the gang, I noticed a guy across the road spray painting his foot. Him and his friend were both silver from head to toe. They wore gray slacks and gray wife beaters, and their skin was painted in shiny, metallic silver. [...]
Posted in Daily life | Tagged | 3 Comments | Current music Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits

duckling photos

A quick note to say that my dad uploaded photos of our new ducklings and they’re adorable, should you want to see them. The momma ducks are miniature ducks (they’re about the size of fat pigeons) anyway, so those babies have got to be tiny. I love ducks. :)
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one final down

Eeeexcellent (Mr. Burns’s voice there). I’ve finished my microcomputer organization final and, hot damn, it wasn’t bad. There were 22 questions and we were to skip 2 of them; skipping isn’t optional, either. If we choose to not skip the required two questions, when the exam is graded, our professor will pick [...]
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Sacred-Nights.com

Whoa.. I’m here already? Well, to conclude this review… whew.. what to say? With the exception of some minor things to improve on, your website is definitely on my list of “top few websites that Trisha visits frequently.” To be on such a list is almost near impossible, so you know you’ve a special website on your hands.
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nasty pizza and a free day

Pfhew, I’m halfway done with finals with only two left on Thursday. I think my algorithms final today went all right, though it was harder than I expected. I’m really not worried about it, though, because the professor is incredibly easy with grading. I wanted to fix dinner tonight for Todd and myself and [...]
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fat cat photo

Oh God, I love it: 23″ weighst photo of cat from I Can Has Cheezburger?. Sigh, if only my “weighst” could be as small as that cat’s. Someone needs to put that thing on a diet. Thanks for the link, Todd.
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using AJAX to spiff up a gallery

Lightbox is nice and all, but sometimes I find it clunky, particularly in Firefox when I have a lot of other tabs open. However, I don't want to go the route of having an image load by itself in the browser, because it would be so much nicer to have it integrated into my [...]
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being a recluse and Spiderman 3

I came to my parents’ house today to spend a week in the country. I enjoyed this afternoon, talking with my parents and catching up on things, but now the boredom has set in. I’m missing Todd and at a loss for what to do, since I couldn’t find anything on TV and [...]
Posted in Daily life | 3 Comments | Current music Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups

catfishing

My brother, my dad, and myself spent all of yesterday afternoon fishing for catfish at our pond. I hadn’t planned to, but then my dad went to get a drink and I was left watching his pole… of course it got a bite. I freaked out and grabbed the pole, upside-down apparently, [...]
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back when men were men

I was just reading on Snark about how Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy is sooo dreamy. I don’t understand how; I really don’t like the emo look on guys. Leave the girls’ jeans to the girls, damnit, and cut your hair! I think it creeps me out partially because I dislike [...]
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good sites for slow connections

Put a limit on my bandwidth and I go all dumb about what to do online. You know how you see guides for fun things to do on a low budget? There need to be such guides for Internet users on dial-up connections. Heck, that’s not a bad thing for me to [...]
Posted in Techy | Tagged | 2 Comments | Current music Jaded by The Crystal Method

grades and a new schedule

All my grades have been posted and I was finally able to get through the slew of “error codes” and Javascript malfunctions that is UK’s grade-checking system in order to see them myself. I got A’s in algorithms and biology and B’s in discrete math, microcomputer organization, and the second physics lab. Not [...]
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being P.C. is often doubleplusungood

I was just reading an entry on The Blog That Boredom Built about how the author calls herself childfree, meaning she has no children and doesn’t want any. I don’t care one way or the other about that, but I do take offense at the perceived necessity for 1) a label to apply and [...]
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freedom and Calvin and Hobbes

It’s wild not having homework to do. I’m sitting around on my computer, dancing along to Alanis Morissette, and I was starting to feel guilty for not being productive. Then I realized that, hey, I don’t have anything I should be doing, really. I could work on my FAFSA, but that’s about [...]
Posted in Daily life | Tagged | 1 Comment | Current music Crazy (James Michael Mix) by Alanis Morissette

using AJAX to implement a live search

I recently implemented a live search on the quotes page, so I figured I'd give a tutorial on how I did it. A "live" search is like a regular search feature, but if the user has Javascript enabled, the search will run as they type, instead of waiting for them to hit the 'Submit' [...]
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put up or shut up

I’ve been so disgusted since yesterday evening when I found out that Microsoft is alleging Linux of patent infringement, but today a few articles have calmed me down: This is, to me, Darl II: “Our precious IP is worth beeelions, and you must honor our sacred intellectual property, which is behind this curtain. We can’t exactly [...]
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Sun’s advice to Microsoft

Hahaha, this tickles me to death. In Jonathan Schwartz’s blog, he writes: So what’s my view on this interview in Fortune—in which one of Sun’s business partners claims the open source community is trampling their patent portfolio? You would be wise to listen to the customers you’re threatening to sue—they can leave you, especially if you [...]
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American Idol suddenly lost its appeal

Obviously America has no taste, and I’m referring to tonight’s American Idol results show. How on earth is Melinda not in the final two? I’m figuring it one of two ways: People got too confident that since she is obviously the best singer on the show she would be secured a place in the [...]
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