Archive for July, 2002

31 July 02

I was happy that I finally did all the crap necessary to graduate (save my assignment and test due next week), so I replaced the image to the right with the hero from a now impossible video game. I tried to play Rygar a few months ago, but it is as difficult as playing Pong on an original Pong system with the little widget that you had to twist with great precision.

Tomorrow I move 95% of my crap away from Gainesville. It’s a good thing, too. I need the exercise.

19 July 02

Who says Linux gets rid of all the “error for no reason” errors?

‘Panel’ (the program that has all the taskbar applets and the start menu thing) crashes and reloads whenever I run ‘xpdf’. This makes “No Sense (R)”.

15 July 02

While waiting on the phone for the sprint echo echo operator echo echo to change my phone settings echo echo, I noticed a tree near me that looked like it was wrapped in plastic. “Odd,” I thought to myself, “why would someone want to preserve a tree that’s in such bad condition?” I decided to poke the plastic with a poking device. So I found one, herein referred to as a “stick”. I scraped the plastic with the stick and wound up with a stick that had a big wad of something like cotton candy on it. Turns out the tree is just hideously covered in spider webs. The tree also has black spots on it that seem to fluctuate when poked. These black spots are apparently the enormous masses of tiny spiders who live on the tree.

I don’t like that tree so much anymore.

12 July 02

“Rehmeyer is …”

Rehmeyer is 602 feet from the northwest and 3,800 feet from the northeast lines of 14-1-H&TC RR Co. Survey, Abst. 991.

Rehmeyer is able to put the house where he intended.

Rehmeyer is our new Newsletter Editor-please respond to his requests for articles.

*Note: None of these is true.

03 July 02

The department of computer engineering at my school has to be one of the best-organized systems of educating students and determining which of them have succeeded enough to get a college degree.

They even teach their students good time-management skills. They do so by recommending that the incoming students already have good time-management skills. They don’t believe in “teaching by example”, as that has yet to be proven as profitable as “half-assing your effort”. I wish more institutions learned from their marvelous habits of reasoning.

The department also believes in equal opportunity. For instance, it isn’t so shallow, degrading, or segregatory to treat the “Punctualites” or “Englishers” any different than the majority. To achieve this delicate balance, due dates and meeting dates are set for important assignments, tests, and applications, but the content or actual location of those events are never decided until not more than 48 hours in advance. In addition, prompts for critical thought and response are never constructed with the imagination-limiting and society-harming grammar known as “English” (God only knows what crimes that language has been associated with) for that would lead to bow ties and golf shorts. Instead, the government-approved “Engrish” is the standard. Some members of the IT-sect may know this language as its alternate title, “You do not have language pack XXXX installed. Please continue to Windows update to forever bog your system down with screwy characters that you’ll never understand.” I tend to think “Engrish” is much easier to pronounce.

Long story short, The Department shall be remembered forever in the annals of history, IMHO, AFAIK, God Save the Queen, In Exelcis Deo, Only In America.