April 2009
11 posts
New Work Space
As a college student… ok well just as a geek… I spend a lot… ok too much… time at my desk. Come May 1st I will be moving into my very first house so I thought it was time to redesign my home office set up. I have a few ideas about where I am going to place stuff and how I am going to manage the seemingly endless mess of wires but what I haven’t been able to figure out...
About To Buy A Car?
As graduation time approaches some graduates are lucky enough to either be purchasing their first car or more likely are begging their parents for one last thing… either way if your in the market to buy a new car you might want to wait a few weeks to see how things pan out. President Obama is trying to push incentives for buying American assembled cars and consequently two bills are...
Dont Even Know What To Say
So about a month ago(March 18th) I decided to order a Dell Mini 9 to replace my powerbook g4 that was dropped and now has hard drive failure. So I went to the dell website logged in configured all the options I wanted… Ubunto of course. Then as I was “proceeding to check out” it asked if I had an educational discount. So I entered all of my schools information and found out that...
Day 4
I am finding it increasingly difficult to focus on my school work as I ponder what might be on TV at this very moment…
Day 2
A pleasant surprise I have discovered about not having a TV is, I finally have time to try all the little projects I’ve been setting aside for a rainy day… pictures and descriptions to come!
Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives natural laws... →
TV VS Internet
As I begin to pack up to head off to NYC for the summer and a sweet internship, one of the first things to be packed up was my television system. So for the next 30 days or so I am going to see if not having a TV effects me as much as main-stream media would like us to think.
Day 1: began getting caught up on all my RSS feeds… Much more time spent on the Internet.
Teacher Retention
I think the worst thing about a college is a low instructor retention rate. When an instructor tells me I will no longer being here after this semester I loose all interest in that subject and here is why: They are the person who is teaching me the fundamentals of what is to come and if I can no longer go to them for questions I feel as if I am being thrown into the department with no foothold....