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Update
Had a job interview several days ago. On one hand, it went well; I wasn't asked any of the typical eye-roller HR questions like "Where do you see yourself in 5 years" or "What do you consider your best/worst quality?" On the other hand, I'm practically guaranteed to not get the job, because I lack experience crucial to the position (lots of ( Read more... ) -
Slawth 'n' Jawbs
All my school stuff is finished. I've been enjoying a vacation of sorts, playing lots of computer D&D (Neverwinter Nights 2 ( Read more... ) -
New developments
Well, that backlog of grading is finally finished. I knew there'd be a lot, but what I didn't count on, and what took at least half the total time, as fielding complaints from students! There were a few heated exchanges in email, but thankfully, no one implicated me in their thoughts of suicide this time! On the upside, the instructor was so ( Read more... ) -
What's worse for kids, sex or death?
In case 1, the teacher of a seventh grade class is charged with exposing children to Internet porn. She claims she did not purposefully load up the pornographic images, but that some kind of spyware or adware served up the images. It has since been verified that the school had let the security software on their computers lapse. Nonetheless, the ( Read more... ) -
Artificial intelligence and some of the real thing (not in that order)
Eleanor seems to have starting what I believe is called "jargoning"--connecting various consonants and vowels together in strings of gibberish that occasionally sounds like she's talking in a foreign language. Lots of ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, and even a da-da-da a few seconds ago! She really seems to enjoy it ( Read more... ) -
New 'pute, built!
It took nine or ten hours, but my new computer has been built! The most harrowing part of the whole thing was installing the motherboard. The first time I tried to install it, I used the wrong kind of screws. The second time, I forgot to push up the tong on the I/O shield that was blocking the Ethernet port. The third time, I couldn't get all ( Read more... ) -
Update (with a plunge into the goop)
Looks like this thesis saga should wrap up today (Monday). It's basically just down to some paperwork and giving the school more money. Next up I have a massive backlog of grading to do. Then I have a report to do for the "shitty" class. At some point I also want to put together my new computer. After that, I have the old contract work I've ( Read more... ) -
Virtual rape?
A woman's in-game character in an online game (Second Life) was "raped." Police are investigating ( Read more... ) -
Slightly less tough times
Well, the guy I feared would no-show thankfully showed, and we worked things out. So, I defended ( Read more... ) -
Tough times
I mentioned in my post about GraphViz that I've been getting a lot of dirt kicked in my face lately. Well, the delivering of the presentation I made with it turned out to be a total disaster. It started out with a yelling match between me and the professor because I couldn't figure out how to get the computer to display the files I'd made. Keep ( Read more... )