2008
May
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.
May 13th
This is new.
May 12th
Watch
This is an interesting video about the Internet and technologies in general. The basic thesis is...
May 12th
Dipity
May 10th
No Bootable Devices Found
My hard drive fell out of my laptop again. I replaced the screws that are supposed to hold it in...
May 9th
Flash Mob Destroys Garden
May 9th
Perspective:
Andy Barry is the only guy I know who can get help on college math homework from his dad.
May 9th
Pro-IP Act
May 8th
Reverse Scavenger Hunt
On Saturday, I will go to Boston all day. During the day, my goal will be to go around and complete...
May 8th
I feel like this is unusual.
May 7th
The company is currently based midway between New York City...
— Fanzter, Inc But it feels...
May 7th
May 6, 2008 -8:06 AM - On FedEx vehicle for delivery - WEST...
— FedEx, taunting me.
May 6th
May 3, 2008 - 7:24 AM - On FedEx vehicle for delivery - WEST...
— Fedex, about my package, two...
May 5th
fustian: pompous or pretentious language.
— Dictionary.com word of the...
May 5th
Aliasing
I started using Digsby to try it out and I aliased all my buddies. Having a buddy list full of real...
May 2nd
Apr
Housing!
I have secured summer housing! Job: check Plane tickets: check Housing: check Whoo!
Apr 30th
Twistori
Apr 29th
Watch
I made blinky lights!
Apr 27th
An excuse
Know someone you might have an interesting conversation with but you haven’t spoken to in a...
Apr 23rd
Olin is Odd
I just passed a professor I’ve never had for a class in the hallway. He wished me a happy...
Apr 22nd
Patents are like “Finders Keepers Losers Weepers” for grownups.
Apr 22nd
Watch
Apr 21st
Dead iPod Shuffle
My USB-stick iPod Shuffle appears to be in a coma. It won’t mount as a USB device anymore, but...
Apr 17th
Please, IT, run more arbitrary code on my machine. I love it...
Apr 15th
Oops.
My hard drive fell out while my laptop was on. That’s never happened before.
Apr 15th
Watch
kevinrose: Lip Dub - Need You Tonight by INXS (Revision3) Good lipdubs seem to be fairly...
Apr 15th
Watch
I give “21” twenty-one thumbs up. Bonus points for having lots of cinematic shots of...
Apr 12th
Inbox
My inbox finally fits on one page again. Phew.
Apr 10th
Watch
This is pretty awesome.
Apr 10th
Glassblowing demo
Apr 7th
The Marra tent
Apr 7th
Watch
Be sure to watch the other two in the same series: Episode 2 and Episode 3
Apr 6th
Watch
jakoblodwick: mynylife: The Making of Flagpole Sitta, the Original Office Lip Dub - I always love...
Apr 6th
Coke Zero after
Apr 5th
A product of connecticut
Apr 5th
Coke Zero before
Apr 5th
Ringtone
I changed my ringtone to Rick Roll. God help us all.
Apr 4th
I love it
Have I ever mentioned how much fun programming robots is when it works? Even when it only sort of...
Apr 3rd
i can haz terabite plz?
Anyone got a terabyte disk kicking around? I could use it because I keep filling mine up.
Apr 2nd
YouTube
Their April Fool’s joke is awesome.
Apr 1st
Mar
Aliasing and Phonebooks
I have been somewhat afraid to switch my IM contact list from being people’s actual screen...
Mar 31st
Facebook Phonebook, courtesy of Chris
Mar 24th
Follow I-90 East
I-80 is not I-90. Detour!
Mar 20th
Head east on I-90, 600 miles
Boston, here I come!
Mar 20th
Go Cup
Mar 20th
Best Job Ttle Ever
“Director of First Impressions”
Mar 19th
Happy Easter Yak
Mar 18th
George tries on a sweater
Mar 17th
Michigan
Great Lakes. Great Times.
Mar 16th
word to the wise
When driving to the airport, take the airport exit.
Mar 14th
student un-suspended for candy
Mar 13th
Nostalgia Explosion
I just went back and re-read a bunch of old blog posts. I can’t believe it’s been...
Mar 12th
I am so overdue for doing something to twoplustwoequalsfive.com. I miss having endless free times...
Mar 12th
little me rocks
After years of being frustrated at almost every professional-sounding AIM screen name I could think...
Mar 11th
President Bush
What does it mean that mocking our president and calling him a lier is not only socially acceptable...
Mar 8th
Dell Order Has Shipped
— Dell, after forever.
Mar 7th
Robotics at Olin
Matt Jadud:
PAR
Matt Jadud:
canhashotchoklit()
Matt Jadud:
fixrobotplz()
Brad Powers:
oh matt jadud
Brad Powers:
epic win
Mar 7th
I just slept for 3 hours
Crap. So much for a sleep cycle.
Mar 7th
Listen
“Your invitation to your alliance has reminded me of a favorite verse, Ezekiel 25:13,...
Mar 6th
Engineering is intense, analytical, quantitative and...
— Dr. M, Vice President for...
Mar 6th
Help my brother's video
Mar 4th
Watch
My brother is a national video competition finalist for a video he made in French class.
Mar 4th
things that rock
When you think, “Man, I need to write code to do X” and then you discover you already...
Mar 1st
Salsa
The freezer is absolutely the best place to store salsa. It is even colder than the fridge, and...
Mar 1st
Feb
Me:
That's what she said!
Feb 29th
Watch
It took me a little while to figure it out.
Feb 27th
Too many flagged emails
Must… Get… Ahead…
Feb 27th
Sucks to be a College Freshman
Feb 26th
On February 26 we will have a field trip at the MFA....
— Rob Martello, perhaps...
Feb 25th
Watch
People keep commenting on this almost two years later. I wonder how they come across it?
Feb 25th
pretty epic
— Me, destroying the English...
Feb 24th
Input Empowerment
I feel much more capable when using a computer with a mouse. There are lots of tasks that...
Feb 24th
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
Feb 24th
Word to the wise.
Version control is amazing and I should use it more. I was fiddling with my “ads”...
Feb 23rd
Polaroid retires instant photography
Feb 22nd
All your world maps are now obsolete.
— Evan, on the recent...
Feb 18th
I wish you could put comments after a quote on Tumblr
— Me
Feb 18th
What ever happened to our vibrant SW blog...
Feb 18th
Text is best used for titles, labels and captions.
— The UOCD website
Feb 18th
I stand somewhat corrected
Feb 17th
South Windsor's Annual Fame
Feb 17th
ReadWriteWeb does two in a row.
Feb 15th
the net goes marching on.
Feb 15th
I never fully understood this until now. A 15 second compile...
Feb 14th
Domino's
Domino’s stops delivering at 1:00am on weeknights. I called at 1:13am.
Feb 14th
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...
Feb 12th
Personal Mechanical Turk
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk lets you complete complex jobs that humans are better at, such as...
Feb 12th
Loading New Tabs
I set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground back to false. It messes up behavior I like more than it...
Feb 12th
Sub-Tumblogs
My brother is using a tumblog to keep track of resources for his senior thesis. This requires a 2nd...
Feb 10th
RSS Makes Me Lazy
or, “RSS Makes Me Efficient” Since my RSS feeds come straight to me, I don’t read...
Feb 10th
In firefox, go to about:config type in...
— Seth
Feb 8th
Keyboard Shortcuts
Google Experimental Keyboard Search does what I want! shift-enter opens links in new tabs!...
Feb 8th
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
Feb 8th
February 31st Party
Feb 8th
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...
Feb 8th
Oral Presentations
I wonder what percent of presentations were better before Powerpoint was invented.
Feb 6th
Notebooks
Do lefties prefer writing on the left hand page of a notebook?
Feb 5th
Sewing
As a co-curricular this semester, a bunch of us are taking “Sewing for Beginners.” We...
Feb 3rd
Social Graph API
Feb 1st
They stopped selling these about two weeks ago. I am sad.
Feb 1st
Jan
Binders
I have a friend who literally knows everything there is to know about three ring binders. Just today...
Jan 30th
In Which Two American Heroes Coincidentally...
Jan 30th
Free Time
Isn’t it amazing?
Jan 28th
I don’t really believe in memory
— Oscar, during SigSys,...
Jan 25th
SwespaƱol
Jan 23rd
“Mostly Boneless”
Jan 23rd
theme gankage
Jan 23rd
tumbl[e]r
Am I the only one who has a hard time remembering whether or not there is an “e” in...
Jan 23rd
Cheese
Some time when I was in elementary school I ate a bunch of cheddar cheese and got sick. For about a...
Jan 22nd
Tumblr totally disses Rackspace
Jan 21st
Abbreviations
Next semester I am taking a course called “Stuff of History”. This collapses to...
Jan 18th
Facebook Apps
Am I missing out in a big way if I am just using the default functionality? I feel like most of the...
Jan 18th
Laptop Cabana
Jan 6th
2007
Dec
Memory Offload
I am bad at recalling specific items from large sets. For instance, in high school we had Spanish...
Dec 31st
sick.
Yay this is so much I love being sick. (tumblogs add so much value to the universe).
Dec 29th
master of my domain
I owned two Sony Clie palm pilot devices. TJ37: Built in wifi, speaker, headphone jack. Broken...
Dec 27th
L'Espalier
Dec 17th
Watch
The song “Still Alive” from the end of Portal is so addictive. [spoiler alert if you...
Dec 10th
The freshmen totally out-engineered us. And their end...
Dec 10th
AJAX for Awesome
Browsing Facebook photo albums appears to have been AJAXified to make the whole experience faster. I...
Dec 9th
Watch
This is my “final project” for my Video Production class at Wellesley this semester.
Dec 9th
The way software could work
I just downloaded and installed Steam, through Steam downloaded and installed Portal, beat Portal,...
Dec 9th
You know, I was in the market for a bluetooth...
Dec 1st
Nov
Once again, Chief John Jackson invites you to trade a...
— As appearing in the CORe...
Nov 30th