Poll Magrathea's Replacement

Please note the "Fictional Planets" theme. And at least this time I'm not making DrD2be an iWidow. :)

If anyone is curious, the new laptop is just the current 17" MBP, vanilla with no-glare screen. :)

So as I'm entering my 9th semester back at Uni, I'm looking over what all I still have left to do. And it honestly scares me ( Read more... )

DrD2be has had a migraine since Sunday afternoon ( Read more... )

So winter break is over and I am back in class... Both classes were taken because of theoretical ease (Intro to Logic should be simple after Discrete Math, which is just Intro to Logic and basic Set Theory crammed into one, and last time Software Engineering was taught, the entire grade was one book report.) but both classes are looking to be a ( Read more... )

http://devonandchad.shutterfly.com/

Devon found the hosting for them... She's got a Flickr account, and a Google account, but she used Shutterfly? I think it's because they offer print ordering and could handle the massive upload.

Anyway, enjoy!

When one has spent nearly 13 years in an industry as I have, one tends to forget the basic things that one learns in the early years. The past two weeks have been a reminder of this, as a call to Tech Support has just reminded me ( Read more... )

I get to work, get chewed out for not setting the brush on the vacuum low enough for the throw rugs (I had it set appropriately, the boss thinks the brush is a scrubber instead of a beater...) and was told that I obviously never clean, since I missed the trash in the conference room ( Read more... )

I know I didn't post anything here about this before, but I participated in the regional qualifiers for a programming competition over the weekend ( Read more... )

This is the last time I watch a View Askew movie and then go immediately to bed.

So this morning I dream that I'm on FFXI and they just patched the Gardening system. Now, if you leave your plants unattended for too long, there's the possibility of weeds taking over, however if they do (so you don't end up with nothing) you get a "Bag of Dried ( Read more... )

A) Wikipedia is horrible.  Absolutely horrible.

I'm sure everyone's seen the diagram where someone starts on an article with perfectly reasonable intent, then ends up in all sorts of other places?

Today I started with the Zipper (Akron claims it as a local invention, as does Chicago.  Apparently the guy who invented the first thing that vaguely ( Read more... )