Yearly Archives: 2009

weird sleep schedule

Published: 3 January 2009
I’ve never had my sleeping schedule so turned around in my life! For the past week and a half, I’ve been going to bed later and later (or earlier and earlier?) and sleeping through most of the day. I’ve finally started to shove it around, rotating my schedule so that I went to [...]
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Adium and the Sugar Plum Fairy

Published: 3 January 2009
For anyone else using Adium, I’ve found a sound theme and matching dock icon set that just tickle me because they’re from the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. See Sugar Plum Fairy sound theme and Sugar Adiplumy Fairy dock icon set. Now anytime a contact logs on or off, or a message [...]
Posted in Quizzes and junk | Tagged | 1 Comment | Current music We Carry On by Portishead

Adium Xtras

Published: 4 January 2009
I put up a new section under Downloads: Adium Xtras, which will hold things I make for the instant messaging client Adium. It currently contains two contact list styles, which are also available on my adiumxtras.com page.
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cancer

Published: 8 January 2009
Howard told me the other day my blog has gotten boring, and I told him simply that my life is currently boring! Not that I’m complaining: I’ve had a great time at home with my family, free of interesting trips and shenanigans (though not free of drama, more on that in a later [...]
Posted in Daily life | Tagged | 4 Comments | Current music Full Moon by The Black Ghosts

independent study, a death in the family, and my car

Published: 21 January 2009
Pfhew, so I’m back in school and things are more hectic than I figured. Work at Lexmark has been pretty steady, as I work my 15 hours per week, but the other stuff has been up in the air. I had a meeting with my professor yesterday to discuss work on the Baby [...]
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ice storm

Published: 28 January 2009
Holy crap, the snow! Yesterday starting around 1 a.m., we started having freezing rain and snow. Getting out yesterday morning was ridiculous, even on foot. The main roads may have been clear, but the community in which I live was nothing but ice-coated roads and sidewalks; I fell on my butt like [...]
Posted in Daily life | 3 Comments | Current music Kids by MGMT

Protected: so I have this friend…

Published: 14 February 2009
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Posted in Daily life | Tagged , | 2 Comments | Current music Wonderful by Stone Temple Pilots

Alice and aquariums

Published: 15 February 2009
I was visiting a fun house where there was Alice from Alice in Wonderland along with the Mad Hatter. I watched the woman acting as Alice run up a set of curvy, yellow-green stairs and thought it was pretty hokey. I followed her up the stairs, which got narrower and smaller the higher [...]
Posted in Dreams | 3 Comments | Current music Small Time Shot Away by Massive Attack

graduate school, Rails, and the squealing loo

Published: 20 February 2009
Pfhew, excitement! First things first, I applied to UK’s graduate school yesterday. Yes, I know, I’m crazy! I’m going to get my Master’s in computer science because I enjoy having $22,000 in debt already from student loans and I think my life would be more complete if I added another $10,000 or [...]
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GRE results

Published: 5 March 2009
I should be going to sleep right now but I thought I’d make a quick post to say that I have completed the GRE and can move on with my life!! Shazam! I ended up with a 650 Verbal and 660 Quantitative, which is lower than I expected on Quantitative but higher on [...]
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taxes, a pot pie, and Cylon speculation

Published: 15 March 2009
Yarr, I should go to bed, and probably will do so after I post this entry. It’s spring break and I’m enjoying the time off, though I’m still busy. I have to do my taxes and I so don’t want to, but I kind of need the money I’m sure to get back, [...]
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admitted

Published: 25 March 2009
I am pleased to inform you that you have been conditionally admitted to the University of Kentucky Graduate School for Fall 2009. In order to remove this conditional status the following document(s) should be submitted to the Graduate School: Conditional for submission of official University of Kentucky transcript showing an awarded Bachelor’s degree. [...]
Posted in Daily life | Tagged | 3 Comments | Current music Hey Now by Augustana

sortable arrays of symbols in Ruby

Published: 7 April 2009
I got this error in my Rails app because I was trying to sort an array of symbols: undefined method `' for :my_symbol:Symbol. I defined the spaceship method for the Symbol class and included the Comparable module in order to have other comparison methods available for symbols. Ruby class Symbol   include Comparable   def <=>(other)   [...]
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code reports Rake task

Published: 7 April 2009
This will run various Ruby Gems for creating code quality reports, store them in public/ in your Rails app, and create public/reports.html with links to each report. You need Saikuro, Flog, Flay, Reek, and Roodi, since this Rake task uses them all. Save this Rake task in your lib/tasks/ directory in your Rails app, and [...]
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new theme: Watercolor Flowers

Published: 19 April 2009
Finally a new theme is available! I banged around in Photoshop a couple weeks ago, following this tutorial and using this photo of mine. I also tried to make use of these tips about web typography. I haven’t tested the layout in IE yet, so I’d appreciate it if someone could do that and [...]
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wonky nav

Published: 21 April 2009
Arrgh, I looked at 3till7 on a nice big Mac monitor at UK and saw that there was white around the canvas background and the main image in the Watercolor Flowers theme, which made it look wonky. So I tried to fix it here on the Mac at school because it has Photoshop, but [...]
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apartment, HP, grad. classes

Published: 23 April 2009
Pfhew, so let’s see what’s going on in my life, since it’s been some time since I last updated with a real entry. I’m moving this weekend to my new apartment, and it’s going to suck like all moves suck, but this one I’m hoping will be better, at least in some ways, than [...]
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partial move

Published: 26 April 2009
I’m halfway moved into the new apartment because yesterday I took two carloads of boxes, bags, and miscellaneous stuff like my printer. Loading the car is a pain because I currently live on the second story, so I have to go down some stairs and across the yard to reach the car. With [...]
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Animal Crossing City Folk error

Published: 3 May 2009
FYI for anyone who has a similar issue:  I tried to play Animal Crossing City Folk on the Wii and after opening up my game, it suddenly gave the Wii error message “An error has occurred”, along with telling me to hit Eject, remove the disc, and turn the power off.  I was able to [...]
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grad party, friend code, KDE 4

Published: 7 May 2009
Oy, what a week!  I’ve worked at Lexmark every day since Monday, getting things finalized there and today was my last day.  My manager took me out to lunch with about twelve coworkers, which was very pleasant, getting to sit around and have a real lunch with these folks, instead of just grabbing a chicken [...]
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