I don’t suppose anyone wants a 17″ Samsung CRT monitor? Given its size, it’d probably cost more to ship than it’s worth, so this is limited to those in Portland or the incredibly foolish. It’s a great monitor, but it doesn’t really work with either of my laptops. (=
Argh. As of this morning, I am registered for zero units at either college. PSU, which at least has a registration website that works, won’t let me register because it doesn’t know about a prerequisite. And PCC decided that what students really needed was a Student Portal (it’s even called “MyPCC,” isn’t [...]
Before we head up to Seattle for Thanksgiving, I’ll leave you with this trivioid from last night’s news (caught while channel-surfing): a typical (read: non-vegetarian) Thanksgiving dinner contains about 7,100 calories.
Rock ON!
(Happy Thanksgiving, allayez!)
Good: videos of MIT physics lectures available for free online.
Bad: videos of MIT physics lectures only available in a streaming format, with “high-quality” versions too fast for my student-budget 256k DSL.
Anybody know of free software (preferably for OS X, but Windows will do too) for ripping a Real Video stream?
PCC’s Sylvania campus (the one I go to for most of my classes) has something that passes for a student activity center: one pool table; one pinball machine; two or three sad, ratty couches; six or eight video game machines.
The bathroom immediately next to this student activity center is also the only one on [...]
darkmoon rocks.
That is all.
Most recent instance of this meme via realsupergirl:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 54.
3. Find the seventh sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal.
If you don’t count code samples as sentences, this yields: “An automatic index is created on the first colun data, which helps make index [...]
If you’ve got a few minutes for such amusement (and of course you do; you’re checking your friends page), read Captain Freedom, by Greg Robillard.
So our dear friend museumgirl, who year after year gives the most thoughtful gifts ever, sent me WISH LIST GOODIES for my birthday! Yay! Inexplicably, however, her gift message says “I am lame.” WTF?
As evidence to the contrary, I offer some entertaining lameness of my own, safely hidden behind a cut tag [...]
…the text of an article called “How To Make A Happy Marriage–Be A Stepford Wife” by Janet Periat.
(in which we learn of the marvels of Human Chow)
( Boring administrivia )
So I totally expected to snooze through my “Computer Systems I” class, but the last two lectures have been really excellent. On Tuesday, we covered exactly how C implements its call stack, which led very nicely into part of today’s lecture, which showed us exactly how buffer overflow attacks work. Neat!
( Course description, for [...]
The only pizza left when I got to the school cafeteria last night was bacon’n’pineapple. I pondered this while eating my fried rice — while soy-based fake meat products have come an impressively long way, I still haven’t come across any fake pepperoni or ham. Which is a shame, since the “Hawaiian” pizza [...]
So I’m sitting here in the library doing my math homework, listening to music in iTunes while my Win2k VirtualPC box is doing its Windows Update dance… and I look over and there’s some weird name in the left column of iTunes.
So I click and it’s got some interesting stuff in it — Cyndi Lauper, [...]
misterjustin asked me to post my wishlist, so on the off chance any of the rest of you have money burning holes in your pockets, I present a list of things that I could do very well without. But hey, if people are gonna buy me crap, it might as well be crap I’ll [...]
As ganked from tshuma, devafall, realsupergirl, fawnapril, and probably one or two others I’ve forgotten, this one actually does seem like it could be of Redeeming Social Value, and shit:
Ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
Ask away. Then post this in [...]
There are milestones in life that we mostly all share in common: turning sixteen, our first car, first kiss, first sex, first apartment away from our parent’s house. And then there are milestones of a more… individual nature.
( Possible TMI )
So whenever the topic of Portland and how great it is comes up, I feel the need to point out, as a caveat, how awful the band names here are… but I can never remember any specific examples. So today I wrote some down as we drove by. Appearing soon at the Mt. [...]
So on the off chance that any of you Californians have been thinking to yourselves, “selves, I sure would like to see those Sam and Fawn characters, but it’s so darn expensive to fly,” I hereby notify you that Alaska Airlines now has fares between Portland and Sacramento for a mere $34 one way. [...]
Spent part of yesterday afternoon watching an MIT physics professor lecture on friction. Got more out of that one 45-minute video clip than from about two weeks of my own physics class. Oh, yeah. MIT Open Courseware rocks.
(tshuma, I don’t remember if you’ve been supplementing your courses with this already, but perhaps [...]