August 26th, 2008
I’m still immensely tired, and recently I’ve been watching the Democratic National Convention, although it’s not really interesting me that much since they’re all still saying the same thing they’ve said for the past two weeks.
August 24th, 2008
Donncha O Caoimh brings us a way to unmount a device when it’s busy. I wish I had this long ago.
August 22nd, 2008
This week was quite an interesting one. Twas my first full week of school, with about 35 more to come… from just this year.
Tuesday, in English, we had tests over our summer reading (which I got about half done). Still got about an 80% on those, so I was ecstatic. Or maybe they were just simple. Whatever.
Physics on Wednesdays and Fridays is just tiring, because it’s 90 minutes of sitting in a classroom, not taking down notes about things I’ve learned four years ago, and watching it be reexplained forty or fifty times because each individual student has a specific way of having no clue what they’re doing. I wish I could sleep, I wish I could use my laptop… I wish I could ignore the world around me there. Something needs to give me the strength to sleep through not only the unwillingness to learn of the students, but the unwillingness of the teachers to teach us well. If I knew nothing about Physics, I wouldn’t get it either.
Speaking of science four years ago, the science teacher I had then is an assistant principal at my school now. Not sure how that happened, especially since I didn’t think she was even in the district for the last three years. Can’t remember.
Today, my colleague in debate and I taught the novices, because our coach apparently wanted to see our perspective on debate before he taught the next class, so he knew he was teaching us right. Uh?
And, we watched a movie in APAH today over a Native American tribe, and I found it somewhat boring since I was half asleep. Of course, it was interesting, just… not.
Oh well. An interesting week, nonetheless.
Props to the Fedora Infrastructure team for rebuilding a multitude of servers in about a week and catching an intruder before anything bad happened. We couldn’t have this great distro without you guys.
This weekend, I plan to work on the websites I need to get finished/fixed and work on fixing random wiki pages. Or perhaps I might work on adding some more random functions to my Pascal’s triangle generator in the ianweller-misc repository. Or, perhaps, I want to catch up on sleep. Maybe I’ll do all three. Or, I can quite possibly do none of these things. Instant gratification is what I absurdly rely on, and it’ll push me through this weekend and many more weeks to come.
August 19th, 2008
A new website called Michael Phelps Facts has popped up on the web (6 days ago) and takes a Chuck Norris-like stance on many impossible things. For example:
(via tw2113 in #fedora-art)
August 18th, 2008
Please stop assigning word searches for assignments for your high school juniors. They don’t teach anything… ever. They are just busy work.
August 17th, 2008
Today’s enjoyable spams: Fake MSNBC “breaking news” headlines.
Among some of the more hilarious ones:
August 15th, 2008
… when my ex broke up with me two years ago…
How to End a Relationship (via delicious)
She and I are still friends.
August 10th, 2008
(I feel like I’ve been spamming the Planet lately. Oh well.)
OK, some things might not work, but patches are most certainly welcome for me and the developer :)
Packages will hit yum repos soon, but for the impatient, here are the Koji tasks: F-8, F-9, devel
Edit: This is the first release I’ve ever put under “testing” in bodhi. Please test and give karma.
August 10th, 2008
I just ran across a neat little PDF showing problems in Gnumeric being fixed by their developers while the same problems in Excel not being fixed by Microsoft. Most of these are statistically related, and I do have a bit of background on them.
This is quite interesting, and in my opinion, proves the spirit of open source. ;)
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