RacheltoWarhol
Originally uploaded by josh.ev9.
I just Photoshopped a pic of my cousin so that it looks like an Andy Warhol rendition. Pretty cool, ey? I think so…props go out to the flickr technique group.
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Rachel to Warhol
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My car is covered! (IMG_4031)
My car is covered! (IMG_4031)
Originally uploaded by josh.ev9.It snowed like crazy last night! It’s literally a winter wonderland. I’ve never been in snow like this. Last night there was not a drop of snow on the ground, and now, all of a sudden, there’s 6 or 7 inches! My feet sink in when I take a step. Pretty cool if you ask me, but it would probably be highly annoying if I had anything really important to do out of the house…
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iPod in my future?
I’ve been researching digital music players recently…not sure if I actually need one, but storing all my music in a portable device would probably be nice. I’ve been wondering…what’s so cool about the iPod that makes it so much better than everything else on the market? I don’t know…but they sure do look cool. If anyone has an answer, please share.
My sis just got an iPod, i think I’ll play with hers when I’m home over break, then maybe I’ll get one for myself if I like it…
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EyeBeeEm 🙁
Turns out IBM is less wonderful than previously announced. The computer is going back again at the end of the week. I think they’re gonna give me a new hard drive.
I’m still sick. Went to the health center yesterday and saw a PA who said he lived in San Diego for years. We reminisced about the great weather and sights. Anyway, he gave me some medicine. I guess it helps the cough a little, but it also makes me tired and dizzy. I’m not sure which is worse.
I built a program yesterday just for fun. Actually, I’ve been doing that pretty regularly since learning PHP a few weeks ago. The program displays portions of a paper that I’m working on, and has checkboxes so I can mark off when I’m done with that section. I can also add comments and do some other stuff too. It’s pretty sweet. A few weeks ago I built a birthday tracker program that announces when it is somebody’s birthday. You’ll note this on the top of my blog, but not today (unless it’s somebody’s birthday today!). Add a comment if I haven’t already contacted you about your birthday (I already knew some birthdays, so don’t assume I forgot about you!).
Oooh, I’m feeling tired and dizzy, time for a nap methinks.
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IBM is wonderful
Just got my computer back in the mail. IBM replaced the system board, memory, and the battery latch, and also updated the BIOS and ran a virus scan. All this for free, all finished 3 full days before they estimated. IBM is wonderful, maybe I’ll buy some stock.
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Breaking Away
Just watched Breaking Away for the first time since coming to Bloomington. I recognize much more than when I saw it for the first time. It’s interesting to see Bloomington as a bright, sunny, springtime place, especially when I take into account the fact that it’s snowing outside. Spring should be great, minus the allergies. It does look like it will be beautiful here. Oh, and the Little 500 should be fun too.
Speaking of beautiful, I’ll be heading home to old California toward the end of this week. I’m really looking forward to some good Mexican food. There’s a lack of that cuisine here. When I was at school in San Diego my post-finals routine consisted of a prompt trip to Lolita’s or Roberto’s to get a burrito or two. I miss those…Mmm…California Burrito, Jumbo burrito, Carne Asada Fries…all so good. You should come try some with me.
Ok, I’ll keep it short and sweet. Watch for some pix to be up here soon.
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World On Fire
Watch this…
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Time for reflection
Aaand…I’m back. I’ve been relatively elusive lately. When I have written it hasn’t been very substantial, and that would be a complement. Unfortunately I’m too tired and sick to do outstanding work right now…but I’ll give it a half-shot.
I finished my last school assignment of the semester this afternoon. Now all I have left is a bunch of grading to do, then I’ll be ready to go home. The move is probably going to be tiring since I’ll have to transport all my stuff but I’m going to have to do it. This leads to a bunch of questions:
- How did I do this semester?
- Is grad school everything I expected it to be?
- What have I learned?
- What haven’t I learned?
- Am I moving in a general direction toward where I really want to be?
- Am I happy? Am I making others happy?
- Was the cross-country move worth everything I gave up?
- How’s the cold weather treating me?
- Do I miss California?
- Where do I see myself in 5 years? 10 years? 1.5 years?
- What am I doing for the break?
- What am I doing this summer?
- What have I accomplished over the last semester?
- What will I strive to accomplish next semester?
- What kinds of personal relationships have I built?
- Is Indiana really basketball heaven?
- Any regrets?
- What could I have worked harder on?
- What am I most proud of?
- Am I upholding the high standards I set for myself?
I think that list will do for now. In the next few days I will set out to answer these questions, and perhaps others. If you have others you’d like to see answered, please leave a comment, and maybe I’ll answer it.
For now I’ll send my aching body to dreamland…
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Grammar by Google
Not much time to write, but I wanted to relay a situation that just occurred. I’m in the middle of proofreading a paper and wasn’t sure if I wanted to use the word ‘affect’ or ‘effect’. I’m generally not bad at grammar and spelling, but affect and effect generally always confuse me. I’m gonna send a whiny email to those guys who wrote the English language…what were they thinking?
Anyway, to the point. In order to see which word was right, I simply typed the important part of the sentence into Google (in double quotes, of course, otherwise the little words don’t get searched). Then, based on the number of pages that came up for each search I was able to logically discover which was the correct (a/e)ffect. Here’s the example I used:
85-169, looks like affect wins! Next time you have a grammatical or spelling quandary, check your options on Google. Trust the people in internet land…we’re smarter when we work together.
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php and cgi and perl, oh my!
I’ve been using some new and really really powerful technologies to build some cool interactions for websites lately. So back in the day I thought that a webpage could only be made using HTML. (HTML = HyperText Markup Language -> it’s the stuff that’s used to make the webpage you’re looking at look the way it does, to see the code of the current page go to “View” –> “Page Source”) Then I learned about XHTML, which for all intents and purposes is the same thing as HTML. After that I learned CSS (CSS = Cascading Style Sheets -> these make it easy to control layout and positioning of pieces of a webpage. they also allow a single file to control the layout of a bunch of web pages, which is a really nice thing to have if you’re creating a big site.), which was rather powerful in its own right. Lately, however, I’ve been toying with PHP (PHP = Hypertext PreProcessor -> allows you build programs to be run on webpages, that all get executed on the computer that sends information to your computer) and Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language -> used to …
Hold on now. Wait up. Look at me get all technocentric on you. I apologize. That wasn’t very fair of me. As I read over everything I just wrote, I realize that it is too complicated to comprehend. If you were interested in the gory details of the web, you’d learn about them…but that’s not why you come to my website, or really any website. When you surf the web, you just want your information quickly and easily, so you can get on your merry way. OR, you’re here for entertainment…not about the details…
My bad. I’ll try not to let it happen again. I consider myself warned for being a bad host. Here’s some cool HCI-related stuff for your time: Check this out. It’s a flower that sits in your periphery that lets you know when your significant other is online…great and good = grood. 🙂