I’m sick and tired of spam. I have yet to run any of the really hard-core filters because I’m worried about false positives — good emails that get mistakenly marked as bad. It’s not that big a deal for a lot of people because they can just go through their spam folder that […]
Rain, rain, rain! This is a huge amount of rain we’ve been getting. Get this, in yesterday’s forecast we had a 40% chance of scattered thundershowers. Well, we ended up with a tornado warning and flood watch. Today was a 30% chance of isolated thunderstorms. Well, it’s been pouring off […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 8/24/04
Well, today went very well. I finally got around to writing down a syllabus late last night (after watching Kill Bill Vol. II with Jen), and we got to about 70% of it, which is pretty good. The guy was really nice and very smart. I didn’t even get remotely frustrated. […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 8/23/04
I’m playing the role of teacher all day. How weird will this be.
I really need to figure out what the heck I’m going to be teaching. Knowing enough to apply your knowledge is one thing. But organizing it into a form that can be communicated, and understood by somebody that doesn’t […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 8/22/04
I’m having a bit more free time than normal lately, and have started to get caught up on my movie watching some. Erin and I just got back from the second-run theater to see Day After Tomorrow — which we enjoyed quite a bit. I’m glad I saw it on the big screen […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 8/21/04
Oh boy this rocks.
I had been planning on building my own pendant lights for the office for months now, since we closed on the house. We had the electrician install the light boxes in the ceiling, but I still needed to get the canopy (the part at the ceiling), the stem, and […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 8/20/04
Oi. Today was one of those extremely fun days where I got to watch server uptime statistics all day long. Our server has been trying to hold up against a really annoying DOS attack all day — for a little more than 24 hours now, actually. Rrrr….
One of these days […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 8/19/04
There are many reasons to become educated. I personally believe in education for the sake of education. Education is part of being a well-rounded person. I am an information sponge, and I believe that increasing your knowledge helps you become a better person. The drive to learn is one of the […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 8/18/04