If I have my alarm and cellphone set to wake me up, and I leave them in the loft with me, I tend to be able to miraculously turn both of them off, sometimes without even realizing I did. Obviously with school and work, this is bad. So what do I do? I put the cell phone alarm on my desk so I have to get out of the loft to turn it off. Up until ( Read more... )

Damnit - I'm beginning to believe that my coworkers placed a curse on my laptop because things have just been going to shit since they said that Toshiba is a bad brand of laptop. Yes, there were problems before but now its just compounding. A few days ago, the backlight on my screen went out; fortunately it came back, but regardless, its a sign ( Read more... )

In case this is news to anyone, Sony just did the digital equivalent of shooting themselves in the foot. By placing a rootkit on their latest DRMed CDs. Essentially, sony included a virus on all of their CDs for the last 18 months. The program and DRM combined would not allow you to play certain CDs without using the Sony CD Player on your PC, ( Read more... )

Yeah - so I'm kind of burned out on Calculus right now, so instead of going to bed, which would be the logical thing to do, I'm going to update LJ ( Read more... )

I love forgetting about Pizza Parties. It makes the work day go so much faster. Work was actually one of the most productive days, even counting in the hour of pizza partying. We got EB1325D all cleaned up and organized, a lot of junk computers/equipment thrown out, and many others moved to their respective offices. After work and dinner, I ( Read more... )

It is simply amazing the sheer number of different tasks I can fill my time with while at work. Today we drilled out locks and moved computers for two hours, after spending the better portion of the afternoon screwing around with "brick" which wouldnt install correctly. Tomorrow, I'll likely get sent on wild goose chaces hunting down people who's ( Read more... )

Well, for the most part, Day 2 @ DECS was pretty good. I spent the better portion of the afternoon/evening reinstalling windows with specialized netowkr installs because the other new_guy_steve fux0red up the installs. Pretty fast once I got into the swing of things. I also just kind of "hung out" wth my coworkers, who stayed late to finish up ( Read more... )

Maybe its just me being paranoid, but I'm really hoping that I'm not closing alone tomorrow. That'd be somewhat crappy if you think about it, my second day on the job and I might be closing alone. Not good.... I wonder how many times I can use the "I'm new" excuse for not knowing how to do something? Hopefully within my first few hours there I' ( Read more... )

Whee! Tomorrow is my first day of work! Whooty woot. I'm somewhat excited, and hoping that it gets me in a routine for class/work times. I could really use that ( Read more... )

Hmm, its only the first few minutes of Wednesday morning, and I've already had a very up and down week (and theres no end in sight to the fluctuations ( Read more... )