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23 Feb 2008Yesterday was, for all intents and purposes, a snow day. They closed the school down at 1. Of course, I had no classes anyway, just some work that could be done anywhere. But this was a snow day. You don’t do work. At least, not the work you’re supposed to. Kyle, always being curious about [...]
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22 Feb 2008As long as I’ve posted a lengthy diatribe about how awful the library room-booking web interface is, there are two more that drive me nuts. We have a way of putting in work orders for maintenance. Last semester I tried to open one of our windows and it just fell out. This semester, we had [...]
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22 Feb 2008Even though I got to a business school and am a management major, my real passion is working on websites. We just build a new library here, for millions and millions of dollars. We use a tool called RoomWizard for booking rooms. We get a web-based interface to book library rooms. This is a great [...]
Slightly manipulated: the moon is a full-size crop pasted into a scaled-down image of the background (to keep the noise consistent). I’ve got a few others that are similar but might have a little more detail on the right. (Specs: 200mm, f/5.6, ISO400, 4 to 6 seconds.)
This is wild. The fire truck pulls up to a car crash on the highway, and parks the truck to “shield” the emergency workers as they extract a victim from the car. The cop yells at the firefighter driving the fire truck to move so as to not obstruct traffic. The captain, who was actively [...]
Yes we can. Incidentally, polling data, reported on Electoral-Vote.com, showed them as neck-and-neck, generally favoring Clinton by a few points. Obama won by 15 points, 57-42, (significantly) more than any poll predicted.
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19 Feb 2008Anyone who’s learned about the Cold War will be familiar with the chilling fact (no pun intended…) that we came very close to a nuclear war. But after reading things like this article, mixed with other anecdotes, I’m left wondering how on Earth we didn’t go to war… Accidentally. Both the U.S. and the Soviets, [...]
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19 Feb 2008I’m a long-term radio geek, and I’ve realized that the technology interests me more than actually using it. Having worked with lots and lots of radios (I realized that I have three sitting on my desk, all of which I have used in the past 30 minutes), I’ve concluded that I’d like to start a [...]
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19 Feb 2008GRE, a (radio) scanner company that makes a lot of the scanners Radio Shack sells, also sells some under their own name. This new one advertises an “Intuitive ‘Object Oriented’ User Interface Design,” which brings all the fun of OOP to a GUI. The picture of the radio reads “Press NEW to create objects,” and [...]
Several things of note have happened in the past 24 hours: In Pakistan, the PPP and the PML-N, the former being Benazir Bhutto’s party and the latter being on with apparent similarities, won by a landslide in elections, which were a remarkably peaceful event. There is already talk (albeit just rumors) about the possibility of [...]