Today, I found my bicycle upside-down, with the wheels taken off... but still there, chained to the bike rack ( Read more... )

Like most of the webcomics I read, Schlock Mercenary has an associated blog. Recently, the author (Howard Tayler) wrote about how he's disappointed in the way Amazon isn't letting publishers set their own prices on their Kindle storeUnfortunately, despite the interesting sci-fi comic he writes, Tayler sucks ( Read more... )

God freaking dammit. I have had a series of hassles in getting a GSI (a.k.a. teaching assistant) position. First, they mistook my preference for TAing the undergrad AI class as a demand, so they weren't going to give me any work. Just yesterday, though, they found a graphics class for me to TA. However, today, they sent me the forms for it and I ( Read more... )

[EDIT]: I recently realized I can summarize this whole post with the following sentence: If you enjoy planning trips, you're not planning thoroughly enough, since putting in more effort now will pay off when you're actually traveling.My mother and sister seem to view trip planning as an enjoyable sort of thing. I find it rather stressful, and it ( Read more... )

I ordered a digital camera from Newegg.com. I have had bad experiences with UPS, so I paid $3 more to have it shipped via FedEx, which is at least kind enough to have its distribution center located within a 15-minute drive. But today, looking at my package tracking, I saw this:

Date/TimeActivityLocationDetails Sep 6, 20072:04 PMAt local FedEx ( Read more... )