I opened up my contact lens case to find out I'd forgotten to fill one of the sides with solution before closing it.

Garfield Minus Garfield is much funnier when you're reading it with other people and you just start laughing and can't stop ( Read more... )

My D-Link router didn't work with my Mac's wireless, and on top of that Ethernet ports started flooding the network with packets and generally misbehaving, so I ditched it and bought a Linksys router. This went against my years of experience telling me that Linksys products are crap ( Read more... )

Did you ever think that some technology has been around for so long, that it would just be that way forever? And yet, they manage to make improvements, like how water coolers now have a seal on the bottle so you can put it in without sloshing water all over the place.

I got my parking permit from Tech for the coming year. But instead of E40, the Klaus deck, the building I work in, they stuck me in E81, the Tech Square parking deck ( Read more... )

People need to figure out that it is not okay to e-mail passwords in plaintext! You'd be amazed how little access it takes to snoop traffic and look at other people's e-mail being shuffled around between servers ( Read more... )

For once the jetlag is working in my favor: I'm making it to work at reasonable times for the first time all summer!

No blow-by-blow (though if you want that you can ask) but here are some highlights from the trip:

• We saw the Gion Festival in Kyoto, pretty much the largest festival in all of Japan. It takes place over many days, but the main ( Read more... )

If you hate the TSA, you'll find this article on their policies old and new an interesting read. Not least because I'm a family friend of the student mentioned at top.

I was right, R is a terrible package. I wasted an entire hour or two trying to figure out how to put two series onto a single plot. Finally I gave up, installed gnuplot, and had the whole damn thing worked out in about 20 minutes.

R is probably great if you already know it. But the documentation is bad even by Unix standards. Gnuplot did exactly ( Read more... )

R must be the worst name for a piece of software ever.