| You know it's O-week when... |
[Sep. 6th, 2007|07:02 am] |
So I'm on the #10, and just as we're leaving the mall, the bus has to stop and wait for two 1st years to cross (note that this is not a crosswalk or anything). The driver yells out the window, "you guys going or what?", and the guy asked about a bathroom or something as he staggered around.
Yup, drunk frosh on the prowl for bathrooms at 7am. Must be o-week. |
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| REALLY? The Internet lets you work online? |
[Aug. 1st, 2007|10:50 am] |
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From a spam-ish email I just got: "The Internet has opened up a wealth of opportunities for working online". Sorry, just had to share that quote. |
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| My inner geek is smiling |
[Jul. 31st, 2007|06:09 pm] |
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So I just found out that you can make posts through LJ's Jabber bot "Frank". That makes my inner geek smile. I just got my new MacBook, and good golly is it shiny. I'm still installing stuff (working on development tools now), but I'm really liking it. I'm glad I made this switch. |
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| A very fitting XKCD |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|03:12 pm] |
Funny thing is, one of the packages (Carolyn's iPod) is in Memphis right now... Another leaves China today ("Where the hell is SHENZHEN, CN?"), and a third ships by the end of the week. Leave it to Apple to split my order of three items into three separate packages, each arriving separately, probably from three separate continents. |
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| I have succumbed. |
[Jul. 24th, 2007|01:01 pm] |
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I am joining the ranks of the iPod-toting, MacBook-wielding... people |
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| Gaah! My poor baby! |
[May. 19th, 2007|01:01 pm] |
So when your bike lock has this nifty little latch that keeps it from falling off the bike, getting caught in the frame and mangling the derailleur, remember kids... always, and I do mean always, use that latch.
( cut for length and rambling )
I'd at least need a clamp and worktable to fix this myself, so I'm going to have to go into a bike shop on Tuesday. Hopefully they can bend it back into shape, otherwise I'm going to have to drop $50 or more on a new derailleur. Just what I needed. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 25th, 2007|02:22 pm] |
Apparently someone got my debit card number and PIN and drained my account last night. The account's been frozen until I can go to the bank and clear it up, which I'm going to do in a few hours. The only three places they could have gotten it was the Grotto, the Wendy's on Wellington, and the Subway at Gordon and Wellington.
Gaah, sound familiar, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jfswift?
Edit: WTF? Who the hell's "jfswift"? I entered "slyfox" (really, I did, it says so now in the edit box). |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|08:38 pm] |
Well, it looks like I'm working at ALT again in the winter. There's only one job that may be better, but it's in Texas. It does right up my alley, though -- for Freescale Semiconductors, the people who make the PPC processor.
In other news, I bought the most incredibly cheap textbooks today: "Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Using UML, Patterns, and Java" for $6.99 (Amazon's price: $74.10), and "Computer Networking: A top-town approach featuring the Internet" for $12.99 (Amazon's price: $90.96). What the hell? They look new too. I have no idea how they were so cheap. Computer Networking is a textbook for one of my courses, and I think the other one is a recommended text. Either way, it'll be useful for later courses and hell, for $7, you can't go wrong. |
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| I can't resist a good meme |
[Aug. 20th, 2006|11:22 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | meme | ] |
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| | Groove Armada - But I feel good | ] |
 | You scored as II - The High Priestess. The High Priestess is a card of intuition, instinct and hidden knowledge. She knows all your secrets, you can hide nothing from her. Yet you will never know the secrets she herself protects.If well aspected in a Tarot spread, this card can indicate the use of intuition to solve problems; trust to your instincts. If badly aspected, it can mean suppression and ignoring of such instincts - following your head at the expense of your heart.
II - The High Priestess | | 75% | XIX: The Sun | | 69% | XI: Justice | | 69% | XVI: The Tower | | 63% | I - Magician | | 56% | VIII - Strength | | 56% | 0 - The Fool | | 56% | XIII: Death | | 56% | IV - The Emperor | | 50% | X - Wheel of Fortune | | 44% | VI: The Lovers | | 44% | III - The Empress | | 38% | XV: The Devil | | 38% | </td>
Which Major Arcana Tarot Card Are You?
created with QuizFarm.com |
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| In the absence of a bike rack... |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|04:43 pm] |
I have discovered the next best place to lock up a bike...
To a natural gas line. Go ahead, cut through that, sucker. I dare you. I call it "natural selection by natural gas". |
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| Meme! |
[Jul. 11th, 2006|11:00 pm] |
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| ✓ I miss somebody right now. |
✓ I don't watch much TV these days. (I'll catch the occasional show, but not too many) |
× I own lots of books. (I don't read nearly enough anymore.) |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. (I've never really gotten comfortable with them, though.) |
× I love to play video games. |
× I've tried marijuana. |
| ✓ I've watched porn movies. (Never did anything for me.) |
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. |
✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. (Fuck yeah.) |
× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. |
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
( it goes on... ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 11th, 2006|08:14 pm] |
Well, as a few of you know, my bike was stolen on Friday from work. Some dude dressed in a white shirt, white baseball hat and red trackpants cut the lock at 1:58PM on Friday and walked off with it. We got footage of the bastard, from the security cameras on the building, but it's not good enough to identify him (it's almost definitely a guy). It looked like a theft-for-hire -- the guy appeared to take a picture with a camera phone about 10 minutes before he stole it. Whoever he was, he cut cleanly through my Kryptonite cable lock with no problem.
So, while it's possible I'll get it back (I reported it to the police yesterday), there's no point in counting on that. I needed a new bike, and I splurged on a fancy fancy new bike. Say "hello" to ( my new baby ). It's basically a low-end road bike, and it's really fast. :-)
This time, I also got a fancy bike lock to match. There's no way anyone's cutting through that with anything short of a welding torch (and even then, it would probably take a while. It's got $500 in insurance on it, which is cool.
I have permission to keep it inside now, provided I can find somewhere in the office that no one will object to. I might even put it in my cubicle, if necessary. This one isn't getting stolen. |
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| Well that's weird |
[Jul. 5th, 2006|02:28 pm] |
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I just had a corporate recruiter call me. |
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