Archive for March, 2007

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

No access

Meeting somone at Beyond Bread for lunch and showed up early to use the free wifi. I knew they turned it off during lunch. It’s an extremely popular place and they need people in and out. But their blackout hours are 10 to 2! Way too long.

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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Kids wear the darndest things

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } So I go into Isaac’s room and he’s standing there thumbing through his closet. For some reason he can’t decide what to wear. I suggest a few options but he looks at me disdainfully. [...]

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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Frustration

There’s a special kind of frustration when you spend hours debugging a problem and finally find resolution. And the resolution is that it’s not your bug, it’s in the software you’re working with. Sometimes I wish everything I did was open source. I was reminded of that fiddling with WordPress this weekend. I didn’t like [...]

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Monday, March 19th, 2007

Useful tweets?

Tucson is about to go through a major 3 year highway project that will completely hose traffic for a major part of town. Our local newspaper just announced an “I-10 closure blog” in which they’ll keep folks abreast of the latest problems. But wouldn’t it be more useful to have the option of getting an [...]

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Monday, March 19th, 2007

More Movies

Apparently, I watch a lot of movies…The Departed – This movie was all that and a bag of chips, although I didn’t entirely care for the very end. I wasn’t completely enthralled like some of Scorsese’s other work but it was still a great movie. Not the best movie that came out last year though, [...]

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Sunday, March 18th, 2007

america, the book

The name of Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) became synonymous with an era, not unlike his colleague, Representative William Pleistocene (D-MN)

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Sunday, March 18th, 2007

prep assignment changes

We had some documentation in a Movable Type instance that I’m moving into our Wiki. I came across this. Snarkiness was in the documentation, not added by me later. :) Changed “pubic health” to “public health” in the chart of math requirements. Yes, 25 people proofread this stuff, and 25 people missed that.

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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Play

When I push the play/pause button on my keyboard, itunes, open pandora, and realplayer all fire up at once. Unless I’m already listening to something in one of them, then that’ll stop and and the others will start. At least the mute button works as advertised.

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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Flickerage

Yesterday afternoon, Flickr announced the release of a new feature that hard core Flickr users have been clamoring for for a while now: subsets or sets of sets. Or, as Flickr calls them, collections. Wooohoooo!

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Media

Things I’ve watched or read in the last week: Borat – Funniest movie of the year? Not! My little joke there was funnier than almost anything in the movie. I felt like I did when I was watching Napolean Dynamite, another wildly popular movie that I totally didn’t get. Maybe this is my lot now [...]

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