I HAVE AN INTERNSHIP FOR THE SUMMER!

I have secured a paid internship in White Plains, NY working at Reflexions Data, with the possibility of a full-time position when it's over!

This removes a tremendous load from my shoulders. No longer do I feel useless, skillless and jobless. I can code the web!

So today, in my Remembering War in East Asia class, we're doing a unit on the so-called "comfort women" of WWII. For those unfamiliar, the comfort women were women from territories occupied by the Japanese in WWII who were deceived, abducted or otherwise coerced into becoming sex slaves for soldiers with the stated aim of preventing them from ( Read more... )

About a week and a half ago I tried to watch the 1988 Terry Gilliam film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, not knowing that in fact, the Baron Münchhausen was a real person known for telling tall tales about his exploits!

On reading the Wikipedia page, I chanced upon the section about the role-playing/storytelling game, The Extraordinary ( Read more... )

So we all know about the Golden Shield Project, right? China's notorious Internet censorship, AKA the Great Firewall of China?

It's being challenged by an Internet meme, and in an ingenious way: it's a common-sounding phrase that sounds just like a vulgarity. And they can't ban it without looking utterly ridiculous. (One Chinese blogger even ( Read more... )

I do not have good luck with air travel in western Pennsylvania. First I get stranded in the middle of nowhere and forced to drive eight hours overnight with three complete strangers, and now I get delayed for eight hours in Pittsburgh before being grudgingly allowed on a plane to Newark. And the worst part was, I got a total of a sentence and a ( Read more... )

Meme, from samjolnir!

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1. Linux/Ubuntu: I first started using Linux about two years ago. At the time I didn't even know what was good about it besides that it was open-source. And then I learned that being open-source ( Read more... )

My Linux minicourse is officially announced! It'll be Thursdays 7-8 starting on March 26. Yay second semester senior why-didn't-I-do-this-earlier project ( Read more... )

I'm running a Paranoia game tomorrow (Friday) at 8:00 PM for NonCon! You should come play.

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Music distribution on the Internet is a fascinating subject for me, as both an issue in and of itself and as a microcosm of the ways the emergence of the Internet is changing the world. From the juggernaut iTunes (which needs and deserves no link from me), which locks your music with DRM wherever possible, to the smaller upstart ( Read more... )

I'm posting this a bit late, but I do have an excuse--I didn't get my schedule finalized until 2 days ago. I'm happy with it though--this will be a good semester to end with, even if the work load will murder me.

CodeClass NameProfessorTime Slot
CMPU-224Computer OrganizationLou VoermanMW 9:00-10:15
CMPU-245Declarative ProgrammingLuke HunsbergerMW ( Read more... )