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Another first week of school started this week. I’m doing something new this term, using the wiki at http://www.michaelhartog.com/wiki/ (no, you can’t see log in to see anything) to keep track of my class notes. It’s much faster to type notes on my laptop (and much more legible) although it comes with some weird issues. For my CS courses, everything is fine since that is normally done on the computer. But in linguistics and math I have other issues.
In linguistics we have to write all of those crazy symbols they use in the dictionary to tell you how to pronounce the word. Luckily, I very quickly found how to write them through the IPA website with simple html codes.
Math, on the other hand, is a little more complex. There are a few ways to write math for browsers, however, they aren’t supported across browsers. The other option is some scripts that will take input and then it will create a images. I still have to figure out how to implement it, but I think I’m going to go with the image option.
The Idle Thumbs podcast ended last month and I’ve taken some of my spare time to listen to it from the beginning.
I’ve also picked up Bored to Death and Modern Family as two new TV shows to watch. No, I haven’t finished Buffy, get off my back!
And with a week off, steam shows what one week of vacation can do for me:
So it was around this time last year. I had just gotten back to residence from home and since no one was back yet I decided to make a night of some Guitar Hero 3. Seemed like a pretty safe idea for a Sunday night. Then she walked in.
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After staying for 4 days at Mark’s place which was very nice, ignoring the small bed I have moved into my own place. Orientation week and such has kept me away from writing for a while since I basically got home, went to sleep, woke up and left again but now classes are starting so it’s back to normal. More on orientation week and dying my hair pink later.
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