I had consciously decided not to buy a parking permit this semester; I bicycle to class normally, which takes only 10-15 minutes, avoids having to hunt for a parking space, saves on gas, etc. Obviously, though, I don’t want to bicycle in the rain. Doing the math, though, in a 16 week semester, with classes […]
Firewalls bug me. A lot.
Firewalling is wildly inconsistent here on campus. That’s due, in part at least, to the fact that the wireless network is wildy inconsistent. There is not ubiquitous wireless access, and in fact in certain areas, the only wifi is (from appearances, at least) unofficial.
In the computer science building, the ESSID is […]
Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, FUCK!
It’s absolutely amazing how, despite experiencing a catastrophic loss of data, I manage to keep from obtaining good backup religion.
I just managed to be a complete fucking retard and blow away my development source trees. Including uncommitted code changes. And yes, it was my fault. Somewhat. I wound up getting annoyed […]
There’s an old bug that most file choosers have; when you probe into a directory, it looks at the files that are there, and caches the information. If the contents change while you’re staring at the file selector, you’re SOL and are looking at stale data.
This leads to a certain use pattern:
Open file chooser
Realize […]
I had a fairly surreal experience just now, waiting for my professor to arrive. Someone else in my class was asking me whether I had redone my second lab. I had skipped class last time, so I wasn’t there when we (presumably) had them returned. Apparently lots of people had botched theirs, despite the […]
Nearby, there’s a Restaurant Depot location that just opened. I’ve been watching it with excitement; I’m the sort of nerd who really enjoys places like that. Costco is amazing (other than the throngs of people), and a gigantic restaurant store like this would be Costco-like, but without the people, and with weird, obscure cooking stuff. […]
A pumpkin gave its life so that these muffins might live.
And I’m not sure, but many Bothans may have also died to bring us these
muffins. It’s just a hunch.
Well this is exciting; normally my Monday and Wednesday mornings are spent in an Anthropology class where it’s a vast wireless wasteland. Some portions of this building have decent wifi coverage. Some portions have a handful of access points visible, but they’re either spotty or have WEP enabled. Up here on the top floor, I’ve […]
This is something I’ve dealt with before; I’ve got a drastically different opinion of how one should deal with a career than lots of others. There are all these people who want to get a job someplace, and make themselves invaluable by making everything so complicated and convoluted that nobody else can come in and […]