I very rarely use hyperbole. I am something of an open book -- if I say something not for laughs, you can neglect the probability that I don't mean it literally. So when a person I deal with regularly does not process that I am describing something literally after repeated conversations (say, my work schedule this semester), I become amazingly ( Read more... )

UPDATE: Apparently the trick is to obtain a netID or to change password if you have one already. How useful, given that they didn't put signs up to this effect until Monday but started the transition on Wednesday. Our fine IT department at work ( Read more... )

So, it turns out that both of the DVDs I burned, one as a back up on May 21, one as a complete archive of my work burned on Saturday to give to my boss's new student, are coasters. I still have the talk I wrote for her since it's in my email, as well as the pdf of my notes generated in the LaTeX front end I've been using, which got emailed to the ( Read more... )

When trying to use a publicly accessible computer with the software you need -- Excel, since OpenOffice has a complete inability to do charts, let alone do them even moderately well, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna turn an hour's worth of work into a three-day project in IDL -- start by making sure that previous users didn't set the OS to be using

Been in front of a laptop too much. Will try again tomorrow.

Also, it struck me last night (ouch!) that if you pointed me at a way to earn $25k pre-tax, I'd probably jump on it just to not be putting up with this.