Quote of the Moment

My cat is my best friend most of the time, which is probably kind of sad. Some days we hang out and then I go someplace with Chase or whoever, and twenty minutes later I'll say "man, I miss Kichi."

And then I sit in silence pondering my patheticness. -Barret
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Bye, cycle

31
August
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So for those that don’t remember, my bike got stolen on the last day of classes spring semester. Which was a bummer, cause I had no bike this semester. However, UOSA has a bike lottery where you can sign up to check out a bike for a semester. There were plenty of bikes for the people that signed up, so I got one.

I went to pick up the bike today and looked over the selection. Most were kinda dumpy but there were some nice ones too. I saw one that looked about right and didn’t have anything wrong with it… but I couldn’t take it; it didn’t have its registration and tags yet. Oh well.

So I went back this afternoon… and ALL the good bikes were tagged with people’s names :( only the dumpy ones were left. I saw the one that I had wanted. It had been tagged.

With my name :O the nice UOSA secretary Carol remembered which one I had wanted and tagged it when it got its registration sticker. Thanks Carol :)

It needs some work… it doesn’t shift gears, and the seat is really low (my knees can touch my chin). But nothing a bit of fixing up won’t handle.

Micro lab tonight… :’(

Birfday

30
August
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Collect birthday comments now. Write later. I’m off to class.

Use the tool that’s right for you

28
August
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So Matt decided that Opera worked better for him than Firefox did, and switched accordingly. And I say, more power to him; Firefox was crashing a lot for him and Opera appears to be working quite well. Too often I see people get caught up in fanboyism and forget that the point of an alternative browser is not to become the dominant market force:

FIERFOX IS GRAAT!11!!11! LOL Y WUD U SWITCH?!?!??? (?)

But the point of an alternative browser is to provide freedom of choice. As long as a browser supports the web standards I covet as a web designer (e.g., Internet Explorer is not a browser, and no, Avant, Maxthon, et al. don’t count either), I really don’t care what you use :)

It’s the same with operating systems. Elliott came into my room today when I was writing a bash script and was like “Huh, MS-DOS?” No Elliott, I just run Linux. “Oh… but you’re not a zealot about it… I didn’t know.” Because I use the tool that’s right for the job, and nothing more. Linux is great for my programming and PIM needs… when I need games, I switch to Windows. None of this self-flagellation because I *must* destroy the Evil Empire… I use what works.

Today I was trying to do out a calendar for ZAP, and KOrganizer kept crashing when I tried to print. So I exported to vCal, swapped boots to Windows, fired up Outlook, printed. All good.

PHPiCalendar

27
August
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The PHPiCalendar website is back online! It’s been gone for almost a year, with the message PHPiCalendar website is willingly offline until further notice. I just checked it on a whim today and they made a new release yesterday! :O

(I use PHPiCalendar at http://sethkinast.com/calendar/)

Quotables

25
August
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CS Teacher: “And so this is what I call the bulldozer rule. You start over here and KILL EVERYTHING IN YOUR WAY until you are done. Easy, see?”
Micro Lab TA: “So you gotta warsh your hands to kill the, um, critters and stuff. It’s safer that way.”
Brandon: “I sold my soul for the Denver Nuggets. But don’t worry, he apparently couldn’t tell the difference between a soul and a jar of salsa.”

I spent about an hour talking with Amanda Price last night; I’d never really said more than “Hi” but we really had a very good talk (she was in my French class last semester and was in this one but had to drop it). We hung out in Cate eating until about 11:30, when she had to go get to bed because she had an early class the next morning. I was about to leave too when I looked over and saw her purse :O she had forgotten it!

I waited around until midnight, when things shut down. She didn’t come back. I looked her up on StalkerNet and called the phone number listed, but it was last year’s number.

This morning I had just gotten back from Discrete and was sitting at my computer. All of a sudden I was tacklehugged from behind!

“AHHHHHHH YOU HAVE IT THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!”

Poor girl; I felt really bad that she had been looking for her purse all that morning and didn’t even go to class because she was so worried :( But she was glad I saved her :D

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