Sigh, I am now entering the fall “I’ll do it later” slump when it comes to my classes. It is so easy to put off studying or spending a large enough time on your homework so as to get a decent grade. I started off pretty well in my classes, but as soon as the difficulty picked up, my mind started saying “you have time, don’t worry about it.” This ( Read more... )

Hurricane Bound For Texas Slowed By Large Land Mass To The South

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First impressions of the convention have gone pretty much as expected.  Aside from the speeches/videos by Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy, the rest of the convention seems to be nothing but feel-good home movies.  No details on the party planks or objectives for the presidency (aside from Kennedy and healthcare).  Michelle Obama didn't come off as ( Read more... )

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So, I'm in Mobile yet again in the week before classes begin again at UAB.  What am I doing?  Lets set the wayback machine to July, 2007.  Recently out of a job and twiddling my thumbs for grad school to start, I started looking for something to stay busy on.  Thus, with time on my hands, I roll up my sleves and got started implementing the Facing ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I have last seen or spoken with anyone outside of the terrarium that is my life in the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa corridor, so naturally that little voice inside my head told me “To the internets!” in its usual manic tone.  So, here I am.  The summer is rapidly coming to a close and it is time for yet another reset in my life ( Read more... )

Today was a decent day.  I happened to set two records with my car today.  First, I got nearly 500 miles on a single tank of gas!  I do only have a 20-gallon tank, so it works out to be around 25 miles per gallon.  Why am I excited?  I drive a Caprice Classic.  Large and in charge, it barrels down the road actually taking up its own lane constantly ( Read more... )

So, a big day is coming up for those of us who like to procrastinate.  It is the one day that most of us dread as we see ourselves get a little bit poorer (most of us) and go through hours of shuffling through countless pieces of paperwork:  Tax Day.   April 15.

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Once upon a time, I was a Windows user.  Yesterday, I made the final step of removing that particular title from my person.  For those of you that may know, I have an iBook G4 as my laptop/portable.  My other machines had been Windows-based.  Some even had a linux partition for me to play around with.  Various other operating systems came and went ( Read more... )