August 2009
7 posts
On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful... →
I’ve been sitting here for about a half-hour drafting what it is I want to say about this story, and I can’t seem to express it. Oh well.
You’ve probably read or heard this story somewhere before. The first memory I have of it is hearing it being read on an episode of This American Life a few years ago, though I vaguely have this memory of reading it on paper as well, so it...
Considering “the first day after Golden Week” is May 6th that is Wednesday, the year of the story is estimated as 2009, thus “Three years before” is 2006. The anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya became a big boom in 2006, and we actually saw the “information flare” caused by Haruhi Suzumiya on the net (like this page or Youtube, for example). (source)
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LÉA Adventures: Vol. 1
Colleges across the province make use of this student portal software called Omnivox; using it gives you access to your grades, messages from various departments in the college, your schedule, and other stuff like that. It wasn’t particularly pleasing to use to begin with, and now they’ve managed to make it even more confusing.
Over the summer, the developers introduced a new...
So last week, my iMac was sent out for repair. Thanks to the awesome crew over at the Laval Apple Store for the great customer service and being overall awesome.
The display replacement took 5 days, which I spent on my Dell Mini 9 instead. It was a nice exercise in finding out if I could last a while on my netbook running Arch Linux. Here’s basically an overview of each activity I typically...
Schedule GET’S.
The good news:
SAYONARA HUMANITIES BUILDING! That building makes me enter a state of despair, and I had to spend most of last semester there against my will. The tides have turned and we are mostly back in the Sciences building where we belong! (I can now eat at the Sciences building daily; which is great because their muffins are infinitely better and made fresh!)
Only...
I hesitate to call my laptop a netbook.
The Dell Mini 9 certainly qualifies as one, as mine came with Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but the term netbook feels diminutive, because it seems to imply that all you will be doing is browse the Web and use Web services. While lots of people seem into that nowadays, I prefer native applications, especially those that run in a terminal.
Tomorrow, I’m...
Cue the Mass Hysteria →
Last week everyone was freaking out about the non-threat that was Safari Charlie’s SMS exploit; this week, something much bigger shows up and nobody seems to care except the 30ish people at the core of the jailbreak developer community.
Pretty ironic seeing as how we can already run whatever we want to run without having to code a buffer overflow to get past Apple. :P
