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Yearly Archives: 2008
new layout: Lime
I put up a new layout today, but it’s not meant to be anything spectacular, I was just sick of looking at the other one. This one also fixes some broken links that were still around after I did the big content reorg a few weeks ago. I’m going for simplicity and readability [...]
review of my classes
I’ve had every class at least once now, so here were my first impressions:
applicable algebra
My professor is the same one I had for Calculus IV, and he’s just as wacky as ever (the nutty Swede). I figure it will be another tricky class, like calculus was, but just as enjoyable because he’s a very [...]
Posted in Class 3 Comments
new iPod and boot issues
I’m finally upgrading my iPod Shuffle to something with a screen! Yesterday, due to the free shipping and free engraving offered, I ordered from Apple online a Product Red iPod Nano. I’m now incredibly excited about it getting here, even though it’ll surely take a week or more for it to get shipped [...]
car problems
Well, uh, crud: my car won’t start. I was going to go have dinner with Jess but, when I turned the key, nothing happened save my dash lights came on like usual. I drive an old Volvo, and it’s always had a few problems (overheating in the summer, a speaker cover constantly falls [...]
my dance with the bicyclist
So far, my accomplishment for the day has been to cause a bicyclist to yell “Shit!”. We were both crossing in a crosswalk, coming toward each other, and it was one of those times when he veered left at the same time I decided to veer right, so we of course both responded by [...]
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sharing web junk
If there’s one lesson I learned down-pat in first grade, it was the necessity of sharing. In particular, I love to share nifty things I find online, usually comics. I’ve been browsing XKCD archives tonight and very frequently stumbling on a comic that I just had to email somebody about (really, that could [...]
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ArtRage
I downloaded the free starter version of ArtRage 2 the other day and I’m just now getting around to playing with it. I have no talent with drawing people or objects, but I was able to whip this up in a few minutes, and Todd was able to discern that it’s a human face, [...]
a restaurant and meeting Jem
I was inside a big restaurant, wandering around. The place was filled with other people that were dining. There was a special area for kids that had Shrek-patterned couches, video games, and a TV that played children’s movies. I saw one little boy playing a video game while sitting on a couch; [...]
Facebook applications
I have discovered that the most annoying part of using Facebook is the applications. Some of them are pretty cool in that I can show what music I’ve been listening to recently, my political interests, and other things that I want visitors to my profile to know. However, I hate the ability to [...]
Posted in Opinions 9 Comments
the trials of a chamber pot
I lived across the street from a family that had just moved into the country, I think from India. They were very poor and I wanted to help them out however I could, especially since they had three small children. I watched out my window as they carried a rusty pile of metal [...]
Posted in Dreams 4 Comments
nightmares and stinky food
Ugh, I had nightmares all night, some mild enough to just involve me and Todd fighting (in which a glass of water was thrown in my face) while others involved people attacking me with axes, Nazis, people hunting me down in the woods at night with a Doberman pinscher, and seeing other people get beheaded [...]
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apartment hunting, dinner, and my ski legs
On Friday, I went apartment hunting with Jessica and her aunt Tink, just driving around the city and looking at places we thought were nice. We had appointments with two places and only one of those we decided was worth considering, the other was just too janky. We hit up other places without [...]
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correct lyrics
Do you ever hear a song and, years later, it pops into your head but you can’t remember the lyrics just right? I’m sure that happens to everyone, and usually for me the lyrics come out messed up and I get a chuckle. Well, do y’all remember that one rap song from the [...]
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new books
Yay, I just got in Java Programming from the Beginning by K.N. King, which I plan to use to help me write a Java web server for my web programming class. It came just in time, too, because the final version of the server is due Thursday morning. My impression of Java so [...]
the great Mac shuffle
Todd was able to order a new Macbook Pro through work, so he didn’t have to pay a dime, the lucky dog. He, in turn, sold me his “old” (it’s about a year old, so I use that term loosely) Macbook and I’m selling my old (about three years) Powerbook to Jessica. I’m [...]
more fun with Photo Booth
So Jessica’s sitting here with me, her on her new Powerbook and me on my new Macbook, and we were playing around in Photo Booth:
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The funky colors and styles are all built-in presets in Photo Booth. I’m the redhead on the right, she’s the blonde on [...]
chmodding and Ruby
Recently, I switched from a Powerbook to a Macbook, and to copy my files from one to the other, I used a pen drive. Since my pen drive has a FAT file system, it treats everything as being executable. This, however, is not the case on a UNIX-like file system like OS X. In order to save myself the hassle of manually chmodding thousands of files, I wrote this Ruby script.
homework, Blade Runner, and fingernails
Sunday is always filled with dread for me because it’s my last bit of freedom before classes and work start again. In particular, I dread having to do homework, probably because I’m such a procrastinator and I often reason my way out of doing homework now, then end up with a lot of it [...]
finally, my return