On the eve of my birthday I have finally bought a replacement laptop! YAY!
But because nothing between me and purchasing via eBay can ever go smooth, the card is refusing to pay through PayPal. I will have to wake up early tomorrow morning and harass the bank before work, it looks like. Dammit. Oh PayPal, why must you harsh my squee ( Read more... )

Guess what my apartment just got...

I am turned off by software descriptions that use the word "intuitive". Counter-intuitivity is, of course, a very bad thing, and being at least somewhat intuitive is a goal all software should share. However, software that places a marked emphasis on intuitivity tends to be problematic in that if you don't intuit something about the software, the ( Read more... )

We always joked about it, but this must be the first time someone *died* of BUA. I wonder what the "natural causes" were.

Also, Camp Wing doesn't sound like the same place we went when I was there. Wasn't that Camp Agassiz, or am I confused?

To all those who said that couch would never fit into my room: fuck you. It's in. It's big, leathery, soft, and fit for a nice nap right now.
To all those who chipped in with hacksaw, hammer, kitchen knife, and roundhouse kicks: thanks, folks. I could never have done it without you.

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9:30am is far too early to attend a class located an hour away, especially on a Thursday. Let me translate that for people who work Mon-Fri 9-5: 7:30am is far too early to attend a class located an hour away, especially on a Monday. Is there general agreement? Thank you. I'm sleepy from coming back from the Cape, toting much too heavy baggage (my ( Read more... )

Yes, that day has finally come: the day where I buy a book for the soul purpose of leaving sarcastic and facetious comments in the margins. Perversion, I know. But the book was asking for it, really!

LORD MOUNT. It’s our fault. They couldn’t help themselves.
QUEEN. It seems they have helped themselves, and pretty freely, too!
(Iolanthe, Act II ( Read more... )

I don't think print and electronic media are compatible. I say this because I've been going through my family's computer book collection on the off-chance that it might contain the two course books for the computer systems class I'm taking at BU in the fall (yay tuition remission!). I did find one of the books... but in the 1998 edition, not the ( Read more... )

Al Gore has one of my cousin Randy's T-shirts! No pictures, though. Still, Randy's done pretty well for himself so far. He even has been invited to give a talk at MIT, a place he didn't dare apply to for college. Methinks the networking opportunities provided by his comic are setting him up to be in a good position when he wants to apply to grad. ( Read more... )

I deeply dislike Sundays. One has nothing to do besides the things one has been able to avoid during the week by doing other work, and any errands or outings one might desire to take are impracticable due to everything being closed. In the absence of the daily grind of the workweek and the mad rush of Saturday morning errands, one is left with a ( Read more... )