Archive for the my ramblings category

more people need to listen to game music

I cannot for the life of me remember where I got this link from, but if you ever played Super Mario Bros. 2 for Nintendo, you will go here and download the song. Now. My first exam is over, done with, finito, gone, no more. Lost to the ether. Four more to go ulp back […]

take a message

UPS finally decided to deliver my package today. Woo! More obsolete hardware for me! And so today might have been my last university lecture ever, here’s hoping.

ups ping-pong

I have a package coming to me via UPS Ground. According to the Tracking Summary, this has been its route so far, starting on March 25th: Palo Alto, CA, USA -> Windsor, ON, CA -> Cach, IL, USA -> West Point Exchange Point, IN, USA -> Toledo Hub, OH, USA -> Canadian Int’l, MI, USA […]

statue (or sculpture?) on MacKinnon building lawn

view of Johnston Green from Stadium Walk, in snow

is it spring yet?

Yesterday was big-ass cleaning day. Cleaned out and reorganized the crawl space under the stairs. Sandy has more stationary supplies than most corporations I’ve worked at. Et cetera. Friday we saw David Usher in Toronto. Oh my goodness. It rocked. It was amazing. He is amazing live. Not much more I can say. The opening […]

you do learn something new every day

The other day I learned that if you create a shortcut in Windows 2000 and specify the arguments to the shortcut as “%1 %2 %3” as you would in a DOS batch file, then drop a file or files onto that shortcut, it will pass the filenames as arguments to the program. So now I […]

no photo today, but here’s a punch card instead

okay, I’m all set now

Camera… check. CompactFlash -> PC Card adaptor… check. All set. Let’s roll.

sigh…

I left my camera at home. So much for that.