Last week I found that San Jac was holding off sending the transcript that I needed them to send to get credit for the English class I took there this summer because they needed a transcript from A&M for a reason that was explained as "I don't know." by the person telling me about it. They didn't think it important to notify me of this hold, which ( Read more... )

I just got done with the FE exam. For those that don't know already, it's a brutal slog of 8 hours of engineering problems. The difficulty of the questions isn't that high (at least I don't think so) so I feel it's more of an endurance test. I did spend a long time studying for it, but probably not nearly as much as most of the people in the room. ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday something very strange happened that has been inconveniencing me since then. As is the norm for Wednesday mornings, I rode over to the ENPH building to meet with the other guy on the airlock hatch team to get things done for that. Work proceeded as normal and we broke around 2. Now, usually I am able to go down the stairs, unlock my ( Read more... )

Sunday I passed another year of keeping records in sleepcoefficient.xls. The numbers haven't really changed from last year. The overall is the same at three significant figures (6.97). Again I feel like there's not really any point to it, but it's not like it's hard to keep doing at this point. I think the only thing I've changed in the file is the ( Read more... )

As is usually the case on the weekend, I've gotten very little accomplished. However, since my weekends are now three days long it seems I get very little accomplished at all. It's already October and I don't feel like I've done anything at all for school so far. It seems like I've spent more effort on fencing related duties and activities ( Read more... )

A few days ago a new component of the web mailer project was introduced to me. In order to provide a rich html enabled e-mail designer inside a browser window we are going to develop a plugin for our jsf stuff using an existing component called FCKeditor. Now, when you're just talking about it you say F-C-K-editor. It's no big deal, sounds like a ( Read more... )

As planned, I left Sunday morning for Sacramento. The drive was long and uneventful. The most interesting thing on the trip up was an overpass that was on fire in Lordsburg, New Mexico. I stopped for the night in Tucson and had another uneventful drive the rest of the way to Sacramento. The very short time I was near LA I learned that whoever ( Read more... )

Yep. I passed my birthday waiting around in Best Buy for them to finish installing my new car stereo. Apparently in order to get the rear speakers out you have to remove the back seat. Both the top and back cushions, and then the whole panel assembly in the back comes off, not just the plastic parts I'd assumed provided easy access to the speakers.

At 05:47:39 this morning the drive that had caused me to have to reinstall Windows four times finally died ( Read more... )

A few days ago I noticed that my computer was making a lot of seemingly unnecessary hard drive reads, and the drive was not making its usual read sound. This was a patterned sound like "ERRT ERRT ERRT" instead of the usual more continuous noise. I checked my System alerts and discovered that I was getting a large number of disk read errors on my ( Read more... )