I so want one!!!

I'm ridiculously excited about next week. I have a job interview in VIRGINIA at George Mason University. It's a technical support position with their print services division, providing technical support for high-speed printing operations. The pay is OK, too. I'm beyond psyched!

The plan so far is to leave Buffalo at 4:30 pm on Monday the 5th in a ( Read more... )

I spent today's lab period working on my final project for my web design class. I'm doing a website for a clinical trial research facility in Rochester for a colleague, and I'm hoping to get paid for it and use it as my final project. The cool thing is that I'm trying to define the layouts using only divs, spans and CSS - a purely liquid layout ( Read more... )

.. my laptop has installed Ubuntu 7.10 - and it flies compared to the 7.04 "upgrade" that I did a couple days ago.

The upgrade seemed to go flawlessly, but I noticed that the machine just kept getting slower and slower. The final straw came when I tried to set up my internal modem for a job, and it was brought to its knees...

So, I decided to install ( Read more... )

So... what has happened in the last 4 weeks since I wrote:

• I had my first exams for Intro to Java and the Web Design class. Still waiting of the java grade, the web class was 77/80.
• Work is going well
• UB is anxious for a "last day" date. Something to do with the Research Foundation rules on leaving.
• Dining Furniture is...dining furniture. Same crap, ( Read more... )

from XKCD - With Apologies to Robert Frost

A God's Lament
Some said the world should be in Perl;
Some said in Lisp.
Now, having given both a whirl,
I held with those who favored Perl.
But I fear we passed to men
A disappointing founding myth.
And should write it all again,
I'd end it with
A closed-paren.

... and boy, am I sad that I had to leave!

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A special birthday edition of "Will It Blend" - Chuck Norris is the only entity to ever escape a BlendTec blender...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to perform a surgical procedure? Have questions? Enter WikiSurgery, the wiki for patient information and surgical procedures (step by step). 

The last semester is in full swing. My independent study grade came in - 4.0. This makes my ECC GPA 3.385/4.0, (the web design class this semester should replace the F I received in 2003 ( Read more... )