Month: January 2002

Made a quick addition to Newton Resources: added some original Newton ads that originally came from cupertino.de.

Hrm. I wrote that title and thought… I dunno what. Colds suck. Yeah.
They suck for motivating yourself too. I can’t think of anything that they’re good for, actually.

I feel so trendy. I actually set up Blogger blog on a website. No, this site doesn’t use Blogger. It’s 100% my own crappy scripts.

Listening to Zwan right now, Billy Corgan and James Iha’s new band.
Interesting. A bad recording of their show though.

The week is over, yay. Had three assignments, one easy, two average. Got it all done. Felt great about that.

Yesterday I was away all day. In the morning my parents came and picked me up and we went to visit my Grandma. She’s been living with Alzheimer’s for… seven years now? I’m not sure, I haven’t visited her in a long time. She’s been in full-time care for a while. It was a little scary.
She can’t really talk anymore. She just… sits there. It was really sad, there’s not much more to say.

The rest of yesterday, however, was spent at the first meeting of Southern Ontario Newton Users in a long time. We spent over three hours talking, comparing machines and accessories, beaming, helping, beaming, disassembling eMates, beaming, and such. It was great, and I got to put faces to names I’ve seen on the mailing list for a long time. Peter Cameron took a few photos and put them up. From top to bottom, here are my descriptions of the photos:

1. Left: Roman Tarnovetsky, artist and guitar maker, with Mimi Cipollone, teacher, on the right.
2. I’ve forgotten some names already 🙁
3. That’s Jonathan Wise in the centre, and me on the side opening up Mimi’s original RCU box.
4. L to R: Stephanie Maks taking apart someone’s eMate, Greg Spencer in the middle I believe, and Michael Blazer on the right. Michael brought “loot bags” for everyone – thanks Michael!
5. Roman looking at something-or-other on his Powerbook.
6. A great photo of one of the eMate hinge repairs Stephanie did. Mimi brought some thin roofing washers and used some tin snips to fashion them into spring retainers.

Volunteering for the Co-op gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Yesterday they won the approval for the new student housing plan from city council. Yay!
And today I went around and took some photos of their houses for the website, which could use some sprucing-up.

I just found this link on Ben’s blog and had to share it. They fight crime! Par exemple:

He’s a short-sighted overambitious paranormal investigator moving from town to town, helping folk in trouble. She’s a bloodthirsty Bolivian femme fatale with a song in her heart and a spring in her step. They fight crime!

Title of a random song playing on this computer right now. Not my CD.

Got a cool new multi-use writing tool yesterday from my dad: the Sanford PhD Multi. Stylus, ballpoint pen, mechanical pencil in one. Nice.
Thanks dad.

Went out and bought an electric hair trimmer yesterday, and let Sandy cut my hair short. It looks and feels so much better now. She did an excellent job too. Sadly, we also found out yesterday that a friend of ours has been hospitalized. We’re going to see her today. I had to clear my schedule so I could go with Sandy though.

And I thought my exams were bad: my sister has to take sixteen hours of exams to finish her jewelery and gemstone course. Ouch. Good luck.

What else… lots of stuff to talk about right now. On Saturday Sandy helped me come to the realization (for only the third time in my life, I think) that my computer takes up too much of my time. So I didn’t use it at all on Sunday until I got my schoolwork done. And that’s how my large chunks of time are going to go from now on.

More “magnetic” poetry from my elementary symbolic logic class this morning:

• Finish writing the basic operations in PHP.
• Complete info in kind and licences tables
• Combine as many operations as possible onto a single form, to make adding things easier.
• Integrate file uploading maybe.
• Add lots of sanity checking.
• Find volunteers to add all this info.

I made poetry. Positronic.

I guess this really doesn’t reflect well on my fellow students, but some of this stuff is too good to pass up. Let’s have a lesson in microwave safety:

Jan 12 0237 Report of a small fire in a microwave oven in Addington Hall. ACTION: Guelph Fire and University Police attended. Damage caused by activating empty microwave. People: microwaves are capable of concentrating a large amount of microwave energe in order to heat things. If you don’t put something in the microwave to be heated, then when you turn it on, it will start heating itself. In case you haven’t noticed, most microwaves are not made out of a metal alloy with a high melting point. Plastic burns. Thus endeth the lesson.

Fat lip, yes. Pain for pleasure, no.

The things you find in uog.police_security reports:

Jan 09 1635 Report of 3 males going door to door trying to sell marihuana in Lennox Hall. ACTION: Area checked by Police, no sign of suspects. sigh