I'm less certain than ever about what the problem is with my computer. I ran memtest86 again before going to bed last night, and got up this morning to see that it had completed seven passes without errors and was a good way through its eighth. I ran some SMART-monitoring tools today to have a look at the hard drive, and no errors were reported ( Read more... )

On Saturday I eventually managed to fix my computer by vacuuming it out and reinstalling Windows (now that it no longer crashed in the Windows installer). Or so I thought ( Read more... )

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ( Read more... )

My marks have all come up, and none of them are failures. To be sure, some of them are lower than I'd have liked, but that's at least in part because my grade desires are now way out of sync with the time and effort I want to put into school. Still, I really would have liked to do better in graphics; knowing what I know now, if I were in the same ( Read more... )

I was vanity searching "lindiril" today (the username for this LJ and a handle I often used online back in the day, starting with on MUDs) when I came upon this post on Student Life Centre about my re-posting of the email about the UW CS Attrition Survey on the uwaterloo LJ community (uwaterloo). Kind of cool because the guy quotes one of my (many and ( Read more... )

And now, in the interests of not being a dick, I present to you the readers of my LJ an update on the ripped zipper Mondo Pelle jacket situation.

After Joe presented me with links to information on small claims court and to the Better Business Bureau website, I determined that I would indeed call Mondo Pelle to see what, if anything they were ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I splurged and bought myself a leather coat at Mondo Pelle. Big mistake. Less than a week later, as I'm rushing in to St. Jerome's to take my last psychology of evil test, I notice that the zipper has torn out of the jacket at one point. Ugh. I drive in to the mall with Jess the next day and take the jacket into the shop; the ( Read more... )

Yes, it took me three and a half hours to get home from Joe's today. But Caitlin, you might object, that is only about a forty minute drive. Well, yes, but only if your vehicle agrees to keep driving. When it overheats at a stop light in Conostogo, and then again at Bridge Street and Northfield, it tends to take a bit longer. It managed to overheat ( Read more... )

I went to the mall yesterday instead of starting my work right away after class. On my way to gharbad's place to pick her up, my van stalled out twice. This was on top of some warning signs like my oil pressure looking awfully low and varying RPM, so I decided that, even though the sucker was starting up okay now, it was time to take her on in to be ( Read more... )

I've been pretty LJ-quiet recently, mostly polluting the stream with memes and the occasional high-falutin' rant, with an interlude of gloating about grades.

In part, this is because nothing all that interesting has been happening, at least to me. Obviously, she-prime and bradbeattie set off on their journey to Japan, which is pretty interesting, but it doesn't ( Read more... )