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I spent a few minutes this evening going over some old philosophy paper assignments. Looking at them, I can’t believe I was able to write those papers. I almost cannot imagine myself writing those papers. I vaguely remember reading some of the essay pieces but, now, I don’t remember enough to write anything coherent about…
I worked as a middle manager in a large corporation so I've been on the sending and receiving end of emailed spreadsheets and Word docs. Why? Because that's how business was done. I worked in a training organization where we were required to report on training completion numbers. The official training completion report was created…
This post is quite long so here are some links to the relevant material: Introductions The Rules Where's the Code? Conclusions Introductions On most modern operating systems there is a package manager that does the following: installs, un-installs, updates, and downgrades packages (software). The names vary by operating system as do the command(s) to invoke…
Popped a DVD into the Lenovo (linux box) so I could watch a movie while I ate since both the Mac and additional monitor were already full of stuff. Totem launches asking if I want to play the movie, I click yes. An error pops up saying additional software is required to play this DVD…
As part of my day job I get to see a lot of different web frameworks. I also get to see all of their dependencies, requirements, and craziness when building stand-alone installers for them. Some of the frameworks I see have a ridiculous amount of dependencies. Django is so delightfully simple to install and run.…
Read more: Here’s why I like Django better than Pyramid or Rails.
I started watching the Sherlock TV series sometime last week. Since there are only 3 episodes per season I went through it quite quickly. It was an OK few hours of television but it had the same hole as any other Sherlock TV show, book, and movie. Sherlock does INDUCTIVE reasoning NOT deductive reasoning. So…
During my day job as a sysadmin I spend all of my time in a text context. I read and write Python, English, bash, and on a bad day some SQL. Switching between text and speech, when someone comes into my office to ask me a question, can completely derail whatever I was doing. Context…
I've taken the Intro to Java class three times at SUU. The first two times I took it I had surgery and I wasn't able to finish the class. The first time The first time was absolutely awful. The professor showed up to class the first day, told us to go to his class files…
About 10 days ago I ran into a technical problem (looking for the git source and git-manpages archives) that wasted hours of my time because I wasn't able to find a worthwhile search result. I pulled up MarsEdit and wrote about the solution I found, in anger. Within three days of writing the post; I…
In the move from 6th to 7th grade we were asked to pick between Art and Band. Those were the only two options. The rest of our six classes were chosen for us. Choosing band meant that for weeks during the summer we had to show up in the morning for practices, after picking an…