I just spent $64.02 on gasoline

I rarely consider the cost of driving places, but a round trip to Boston costs me almost $10.

This is new.

Dipity

No Bootable Devices Found

My hard drive fell out of my laptop again. I replaced the screws that are supposed to hold it in...

Flash Mob Destroys Garden

Perspective:

Andy Barry is the only guy I know who can get help on college math homework from his dad.

Pro-IP Act

Reverse Scavenger Hunt

On Saturday, I will go to Boston all day. During the day, my goal will be to go around and complete...

I feel like this is unusual.

“The company is currently based midway between New York City...”
—  Fanzter, Inc But it feels...

“May 6, 2008 -8:06 AM - On FedEx vehicle for delivery - WEST...”
—  FedEx, taunting me.

“May 3, 2008 - 7:24 AM - On FedEx vehicle for delivery - WEST...”
—  Fedex, about my package, two...

“fustian: pompous or pretentious language.”
—  Dictionary.com word of the...

Aliasing

I started using Digsby to try it out and I aliased all my buddies. Having a buddy list full of real...

Housing!

I have secured summer housing! Job: check Plane tickets: check Housing: check Whoo!

Twistori

An excuse

Know someone you might have an interesting conversation with but you haven’t spoken to in a...

Olin is Odd

I just passed a professor I’ve never had for a class in the hallway. He wished me a happy...

Patents are like “Finders Keepers Losers Weepers” for grownups.

Dead iPod Shuffle

My USB-stick iPod Shuffle appears to be in a coma. It won’t mount as a USB device anymore, but...

Please, IT, run more arbitrary code on my machine. I love it...

Oops.

My hard drive fell out while my laptop was on. That’s never happened before.

Inbox

My inbox finally fits on one page again. Phew.

Glassblowing demo

The Marra tent

Coke Zero after

A product of connecticut

Coke Zero before

Ringtone

I changed my ringtone to Rick Roll. God help us all.

I love it

Have I ever mentioned how much fun programming robots is when it works? Even when it only sort of...

i can haz terabite plz?

Anyone got a terabyte disk kicking around? I could use it because I keep filling mine up.

YouTube

Their April Fool’s joke is awesome.

Aliasing and Phonebooks

I have been somewhat afraid to switch my IM contact list from being people’s actual screen...

Facebook Phonebook, courtesy of Chris

Follow I-90 East

I-80 is not I-90. Detour!

Head east on I-90, 600 miles

Boston, here I come!

Go Cup

Best Job Ttle Ever

“Director of First Impressions”

Happy Easter Yak

George tries on a sweater

Michigan

Great Lakes. Great Times.

word to the wise

When driving to the airport, take the airport exit.

student un-suspended for candy

Nostalgia Explosion

I just went back and re-read a bunch of old blog posts. I can’t believe it’s been...

I am so overdue for doing something to twoplustwoequalsfive.com. I miss having endless free times...

little me rocks

After years of being frustrated at almost every professional-sounding AIM screen name I could think...

President Bush

What does it mean that mocking our president and calling him a lier is not only socially acceptable...

“Dell Order Has Shipped”
—  Dell, after forever.

Robotics at Olin

Matt Jadud: PAR
Matt Jadud: canhashotchoklit()
Matt Jadud: fixrobotplz()
Brad Powers: oh matt jadud
Brad Powers: epic win

I just slept for 3 hours

Crap. So much for a sleep cycle.

Listen

“Engineering is intense, analytical, quantitative and...”
—  Dr. M, Vice President for...

Help my brother's video

things that rock

When you think, “Man, I need to write code to do X” and then you discover you already...

Salsa

The freezer is absolutely the best place to store salsa. It is even colder than the fridge, and...

Me: That's what she said!

Too many flagged emails

Must… Get… Ahead…

Sucks to be a College Freshman

“On February 26 we will have a field trip at the MFA....”
—  Rob Martello, perhaps...

“pretty epic”
—  Me, destroying the English...

Input Empowerment

I feel much more capable when using a computer with a mouse. There are lots of tasks that...

On visiting Blizzard HQ

Greg: mr barry
Greg: have you procured the aforementioned iso?
Andy: hahhaaa no
Andy: I did have to sign an NDA though
Greg: dammit, this means you got the iso and can't tell me.
Andy: :D

Word to the wise.

Version control is amazing and I should use it more. I was fiddling with my “ads”...

Polaroid retires instant photography

“All your world maps are now obsolete.”
— Evan, on the recent...

“I wish you could put comments after a quote on Tumblr”
— Me

What ever happened to our vibrant SW blog...

“Text is best used for titles, labels and captions.”
— The UOCD website

I stand somewhat corrected

South Windsor's Annual Fame

ReadWriteWeb does two in a row.

the net goes marching on.

I never fully understood this until now. A 15 second compile...

Domino's

Domino’s stops delivering at 1:00am on weeknights. I called at 1:13am.

There is a paper I want to find

It was written by a man named William Matthew Flinders Petrie and he wrote it in 1917. It is called...

Personal Mechanical Turk

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk lets you complete complex jobs that humans are better at, such as...

Loading New Tabs

I set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground back to false. It messes up behavior I like more than it...

Sub-Tumblogs

My brother is using a tumblog to keep track of resources for his senior thesis. This requires a 2nd...

RSS Makes Me Lazy

or, “RSS Makes Me Efficient” Since my RSS feeds come straight to me, I don’t read...

“In firefox, go to about:config type in...”
— Seth

Keyboard Shortcuts

Google Experimental Keyboard Search does what I want! shift-enter opens links in new tabs!...

Helicopter School

Greg: i just got back from a helicopter school
Chris: nice
Chris: how was it?
Greg: it was very interesting
Greg: remember when dad got his boating license?
Chris: yea
Greg: I feel like it is a lot like that but for super rich people
Chris: oh helicopter school
Chris: i thought you meant, school for helicopter parents
Greg: hahahaha
Chris: to send their kids to

February 31st Party

The world is huge

I wish I had ten times as much time as I do. There are so many things that I want to do...

Oral Presentations

I wonder what percent of presentations were better before Powerpoint was invented.

Notebooks

Do lefties prefer writing on the left hand page of a notebook?

Sewing

As a co-curricular this semester, a bunch of us are taking “Sewing for Beginners.” We...

Social Graph API

They stopped selling these about two weeks ago. I am sad.

Binders

I have a friend who literally knows everything there is to know about three ring binders. Just today...

In Which Two American Heroes Coincidentally...

Free Time

Isn’t it amazing?

“I don’t really believe in memory”
— Oscar, during SigSys,...

Swespañol

“Mostly Boneless”

theme gankage

tumbl[e]r

Am I the only one who has a hard time remembering whether or not there is an “e” in...

Cheese

Some time when I was in elementary school I ate a bunch of cheddar cheese and got sick. For about a...

Tumblr totally disses Rackspace

Abbreviations

Next semester I am taking a course called “Stuff of History”. This collapses to...

Facebook Apps

Am I missing out in a big way if I am just using the default functionality? I feel like most of the...

Laptop Cabana

Memory Offload

I am bad at recalling specific items from large sets. For instance, in high school we had Spanish...

sick.

Yay this is so much I love being sick. (tumblogs add so much value to the universe).

master of my domain

I owned two Sony Clie palm pilot devices. TJ37: Built in wifi, speaker, headphone jack. Broken...

L'Espalier

The freshmen totally out-engineered us. And their end...

AJAX for Awesome

Browsing Facebook photo albums appears to have been AJAXified to make the whole experience faster. I...

The way software could work

I just downloaded and installed Steam, through Steam downloaded and installed Portal, beat Portal,...

You know, I was in the market for a bluetooth...

“Once again, Chief John Jackson invites you to trade a...”
— As appearing in the CORe...