catenate linked to this article over at Facebook, and I wanted to point some things out about why the article makes a number of good points while being completely wrong about everything ( Read more... )

So, a while back (right in the middle of midterms, if you were wondering), Clarkson "resolved" my ongoing roommate conflict by moving me "temporarily" to a handicapped single in the middle of a floor of freshman boys in the dorm furthest away from my upper-class peers. As it turns out, by "resolved", they meant "we will do nothing whatsoever to ( Read more... )

I worked out what classes I'll likely have to take at Clarkson, and they all sound pretty exciting! Electrical Science! Intro to digital design! Thermodynamics! Differential Equations! Operations & Supply Chain! Calc III! Fluid Mechanics! Risk Management! However, now that I see the classes all laid out in a row and the possibility of paying four- ( Read more... )

I talk about how much academia annoys me more often than I probably should. While having this kind of discussion a few days ago with a friend, she told me that though she has graduated from college, she has no idea what to do with money in the real world or how to balance her checkbook ( Read more... )

1.) iTunes help writes: "When you import an item by dragging it to the iTunes window or choosing File > Add to Library, a reference (or "pointer") to the item-not the item itself-is placed in the iTunes folder.Gee, thanks, iTunes. Explaining that a reference is called a "pointer" made all the difference ( Read more... )

No, this is not about Rule 34. Minds out of the gutter, folks ( Read more... )

What are we going to do during the zombie apocalypse? We've forgotten how to trust each other and make things with our hands ( Read more... )

1.) I beat Mass Effect. I want to play more. Instead, I've got real-world stuff to do. I also wanna replay Psychonauts, because it rocked, and play some TF2 now that I'm ( Read more... )

Putting the TL;DR first for flow reasons.

TL;DR: Accurate, factual, completely 100% correct sources of information do not exist in the real world. You have a brain made up out of roughly the same component atoms as the author of any source. Please use it responsibly.

( Here's why. )

Well, okay, it wasn't a total trainwreck. Here's the rundown ( Read more... )