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Monthly Archives: October 2006

TSA: Keeping Me Safe…From Learning

This little story is necessary info, so please bare with me:
I had an amzing weekend everyone. I was up in Madison Wisconsin for Hallow’s Eve eve eve eve, and the previous couple days. I can’t say more here.
Then, bright and early (7am central) I got on a flight to Detroit and then on [...]

On Asking for Help

I’m sitting here during my “job” when I noticed a funny thing. I seemingly partially aware comptuer user was trying to print from the Mac Desktop Publishing System. She had a Word document open, and I only noticed when she had gotten up, went to both printers, come back, sat down, gotten up [...]

Movies that I used to like

I found myself eating a chicken teriyaki bowl from Ivy Noodle, watching Behind Enemy Lines today, and I got very worried. I really liked this movie when I first saw it. I thought it portrayed bravery, honor and courage in the face of evil and deception. I even still think those things. [...]

Innumeracy

My professor just said, in repsonse to a comment by a student, that he was 96% right. The porfessor then asked a follow up, which the student couldn’t answer, and he said, ‘You’re four tenths away from there. Or 4%’. Now it is possible and even likely that that was a slip [...]

How is Outlook so bad?

So unlike others I’m not a big Microsoft complainer. I think that most people don’t like them because they’re too good. Like Michael Jordan haters this is pure envy or disbelief, as though such high success guarantees some evil flaw. Not that Microsoft hasn’t always been the nice guy or any such [...]

3 Decision Steps to becoming a blogger*

“I hate people that blog. Why do they think anyone cares?” – Me
Yes, I said that. And yes, I even meant it, at the time. I resisted the web 2.0 fad of starting your own blog, for a long, long time. Yeah so it’s free, and easy, and everyone’s doing it, [...]

So I’m trying this out. I hope this pictures winds up at the top left, and not the crappy bottom like it looks like it will now. Probably need to drop a ‘clear=’ or something. I’ll deal with it later. So, seeing as this is my first (real) post, I’ve decided not to say anything [...]