Hey all. I've finally given up on LiveJournal. The combination of ads and the fact that nearly everyone who used to "hang out" here is gone, I've switched over to a Wordpress blog hosted on my website which also has an RSS feed.

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

More backlogged things I wanted to talk aboot ( Read more... )

And again, the months have ticked by without a blog entry, such that each time when I go to write something down, it becomes a burden to write the whole thing out. Indeed, at this point I'm not writing so much to tell you lot about my crazy months, but so that someday, when I look back and wonder what I did at the end of the decade, I'll have some ( Read more... )

From San Francisco Examiner in 1998

For Anthony Shafer, who is an artist as well as a computer whiz, it took more than money to lure him to his first job. After earning his bachelor's degree in computer engineering at the University of the Pacific, Shafer has signed on at a firm where the salary is a bit lower than a Silicon Valley offer, but, for ( Read more... )

What do Jennifer Aniston, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, John Krasinski, Jude law, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Julia Stiles, Liev Scheiber Rosario Dawson, Sam Rockwell, Rachel Dratch, and David Cross all have in common?
The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway
I swear I will see this some day.

The Governator is a Clever Jerk. Explaining why he vetoed a particular bill, Arnold sent out the letter quoted above. But cleverly, the first letter of each line spelled out a message. Despite it being kinda dickish to do, I can appreciate the gesture because A) it's subtle B) I may have done the same thing to profess a crush in the program for one ( Read more... )

Pop Quiz:
So let's say you're moving files around, and you want to replace directory X with identically named directory Y, but you accidentally make Y a subdirectory of X. In order to move all of the files in Y and the files in the subdirectories of Y from Y to X, what should you do? Note, these files are administrator access only.

1. Look up the ( Read more... )

It's about one moment, just when you're on the verge of success. You get the part of your life, you hold the ring in your hand. It's a new world.

The past month or so, I've been thinking back to the spring of 2006. I frequently bring up that semester as the time when I was most sleep deprived and busy in my college career. Defending my senior ( Read more... )

• Hudson River School Exhibition - Good news: I love the Hudson River School, and theres this really cool exhibition of it in New Paltz. Bad news: It ends before I'll go home.
  
• A cool article on the music geeks behind Pandora - Music Information Retrieval for fun and profit!
  
• The Doctor Is In - A new voice weighs in on healthcare: Dr. Mario's.
  
• Boom ( Read more... )