8
Jan
2010
Another First Week of School
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:
21
Jan
2009
Started This Work Term
So I started work almost 3 weeks ago now. The first day was boring. Really, really boring. It was basically lectures and a bit of paperwork end to end. And the lectures were not relevant to the work I was doing at all. Imagine you’re at any company, any company at all, and you have network guys who actually only deal with one other company (which is owned by your company) that is unrelated to all the work they do. Now you decide to tell them all about the other stuff you do. It really doesn’t matter at all, I couldn’t care less if you slaughter baby seals if all I’m doing is moving files onto a server.
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2
Nov
2008
Subway Screwups
As you probably know, the Subway sandwich line is usually setup with 3 people. This first person takes your order and starts the sub. The second person puts on the toppings. The last person takes your cash and does the actual order.
Today every single person failed me.
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5
Oct
2008
"And that's why you're still a virgin, Mike"
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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