complich8′s journal

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan I’ve noticed … I think the quality and clarity of my writing has been on a steady decline lately. Particularly when it counts — classwork. I got my first paper back in phil 303 [...]

So, it looks like I get to get some new toys… Turns out, the proposal I wrote up made some people very happy … even though I didn’t even remember writing it! Medium-term memory? Who needs it! So, I get to plan on about $8000 across two servers. They’re going to be database/content servers for [...]

I spent some time this weekend thinking about my role as a student, and types of students. The movie The Paper Chase shows a nice example of the difference between an “A” and a “B” student … but I think it deserves some expansion for my purposes. An “A” student (the protaganist in The Paper [...]

So, yeah. I’m really glad I got my camera. I’m glad I’m fairly used to using it, and can come up with decent shots now and then. Fall is ok, lots of nice tree-colors. Winter can be nice from time to time. Summer’s just sort of a big uniform green… But where campus really shines, [...]

For the last week or two, I had some sort of strange thing going on between mysql and wordpress. Basically, everything would work fine, except for the “save” button on the post page. Whenever I’d hit “save”, it’d save as normal, but then it’d throw an error saying something to the effect of “can’t have [...]