Busy busy today, with a missing babysitter so my work day will be shorter than hoped. Quick bullets:
- Ordered the second piece of upgrade hardware for my big desktop rebuild. Upgraded the RAM to 3.0 GB last year. Bought a new hard drive (1.5 TB) and have just ordered a new graphics card (Radeon 9500GT, 1GB). Will rebuild next week or this weekend.
- Birthday was nice: got a binary clock, a new zombie t-shirt, and a couple books. Saw the A-Team. Ate peanut butter pie and Bacon Macaroni and Cheese. Am now living in a palindromic birthday year. I wonder if that has significance. My Facebook birthday is coming up soon.
- Dear Lord, it’s already 16 June. SOOO much left to do this summer. Buckle down, lazy ass.
- Avery used the word incorrect yesterday. As in, “Daddy, I want some Hot Chocolate for dessert.” “We don’t have any Hot Chocolate, Avery.” “That is incorrect, Daddy. Here it is (points). You are incorrect.”
- Almost done with a programming job I’ve been working on. Keep going back to that when I should be grading.
Okay, back to it.
The Unincorporated Man
Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects
Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
The Ig Nobel Prizes 2: An All-New Collection of the World’s Unlikeliest Research
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Happy (belated) birthday! And, um, how was the A-Team?
It wasn’t bad. Review up tomorrow.
I hear ya about the date. ‘Cept now it’ 6/17…
What programming job?
Re: programming
A few years ago, I built a simple webform using our school’s Mailman setup for our writing center to send electronic session reports to teachers after students visit. But it had a yucky template thing that I had to update each semester when the new roster of teachers became available. I wrote a perl script to do most of it, but I still was still part of the process.
Then, last year, the writing center moved out of the English dept to the Learning studio, and it wasn’t “my table” anymore. But then they realized how nice it was to have someone doing that, so I got a stipend to build a php engine that does the form but also allows the director to update the db herself (by uploading a .csv file or one entry at a time).
I haven’t done programming like that for a while, so it’s been a nice refresher. Remembering all my techniques from Nerd Course 101 days.
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