Yearly Archives: 2009

visits and kung fu

I’m at my parents’ house with Jon, wrapping up the last of our travelling around Kentucky. We visited his family for three days and have been visiting mine for the past two; we’ll head back to Lexington this evening. I’ve taken a lot of photos of the new kittens at my parents’, as [...]
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C# and Visual Studio

Yarr, so work at HP has been good; I’m enjoying my time there. I’ve worked from home a few times, which has been nice: there’s nothing quite like coding in your pajamas and getting paid for it. I’ve mainly been writing PL/SQL queries and programming in C#. I was apprehensive about [...]
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charity site, tumblelog

I forgot to mention that my web design work for charity health clinic Baby Health wrapped up, and they’re left with a new site: babyhealthlexington.org. And by ‘new’ site, I mean entirely new, because the organization has never had a web site before. I got into the project because a professor at [...]
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new Animal Crossing theme

I posted a new theme today: Animal Crossing. You can also still use the old theme if you prefer. I’m working on integrating my activity on other sites, like Twitter and Stack Overflow, into the blog, and it’s been fun styling individual post types. The layout is based on Nintendo’s awesome Animal Crossing: [...]
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Harry Potter and the Boring Prince

I went to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night with Jon and Mark, and it was surprisingly painful. The movie was okay, though definitely one of the dullest HP movies I’ve sat through, but the real kicker was the company around us. The theater was packed, of course, and while [...]
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Limestone construction

I had a laugh today when a coworker showed me the front page of today’s Herald-Leader: apparently, Lexington had a lawsuit filed against it by some business owners because of construction on one of the main roads in town. The construction blocks off a long strip of the street and apparently a few [...]
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Animal Crossing and Photoshop

I just finished a long bout of Animal Crossing: City Folk with Jon’s sister-in-law, who recently got the game. I was quite tickled to see that her town’s native fruit is oranges, whereas mine is cherries, so we were able to trade and now I have another fruit that’ll get me 500 Bells [...]
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AC Toolkit hack to fix grass

So while reading about Animal Crossing: City Folk earlier, I tried to find a way to restore some of my grass, which has been wearing away to brown dirt everywhere. Turns out there’s quite a stink over the “feature” Animal Tracks that Nintendo built into the game. The idea was that grass [...]
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car jankometer

While driving back from Taco Bell the other day (tangent: we both wanted Thai food but the particular Thai restaurant at which I wanted to eat was closed for the next week, so we ended up going to the obvious alternative of Taco Bell–mm, gorditas), Jon and I got into a discussion about which [...]
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Newspeak and the Others

I was a student in a high school that had a really big, older building that had lots of floors. When going to class one day, my classroom was at the end of the hall and I noticed that there was a stairwell to the left of it, going down, that I had never [...]
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espresso machine

My espresso machine arrived today! Well, really it arrived yesterday, but the post office only left me a little receipt in my box and then they held it hostage till today, when I went with Jon to pick it up. It was a whopper of a box with a $16-something shipping label on [...]
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new theme: Block Pastel

I put up a new theme today: Block Pastel. I chose the name early on in its development, and perhaps it doesn’t fit as well anymore since the colors are fairly bright and not pastel. It’s still quite blocky though! You can continue to use Animal Crossing if you prefer. [...]
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Edward Cullen, spider squisher

So I went into my bathroom earlier and saw a dried-out husk of a spider clinging to the back of my bathrobe. I thought to myself “Well that’s gross, I wonder how long that’s been hanging on there.” I forgot about it till later when I came back to the bathroom. Deciding [...]
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first graduate classes

My first day of graduate classes were Thursday, and I must say having gone through them has made me feel better about this semester overall. Before Thursday, I had been stressing out because this is my first semester of graduate school and I plan on working 20 hours/week. Full-time for graduate students is [...]
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crappy start to the week

This week hasn’t started out so great. A couple days ago while working on my Macbook, I suddenly got the rainbow beach ball and it wouldn’t go away. I switched to all my applications in turn and the beach ball persisted with nothing responding. I hit the power button and tried to [...]
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proof by failure of imagination

In programming languages today, someone had to answer this question: Prove the contention on page 40 that when a CLU iterator terminates, indicating to its parent for loop that there are no more values, the iterator’s activation record is actually at the top of the stack. — Advanced Programming Language Design by Raphael Finkel, p. 61 The guy’s [...]
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long-distance relationship

The good news: Jon got a programming job that will pay decent money and provide good benefits. The bad news: it’s in Cincinnati, so we’ll only be able to see each other on weekends. :( Mom has pointed out that I’ll be kept busy with work and class, which is true, but [...]
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news flash: music on the radio sucks

This may be a sign of my impending fogeyness, but several popular songs right now annoy me greatly. Mind, this is so often the case with rap music that I don’t even include it in “music on the radio that I might enjoy” (see A Short History of African American Music—thank you, Lil Wayne [...]
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Tim Tebow helped me win stuff

Last night for Mark’s birthday, I went with him and Jon to watch the UK-Florida game at a movie theater that was showing it for free. We thought the theater was pretty nice for doing that till we realized that this particular theater makes beaucoups of money from selling dinner and alcohol to the [...]
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cricket wars

My bathroom has been filled with crickets since I moved into this apartment. I haven’t minded, and in fact I’ve rather enjoyed them; they’re cute little hoppy things that I have to rescue from the tub sometimes before I shower. When I first moved in, they were itty bitty baby crickets, and now [...]
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