I received my first allergy shot on Friday while visiting home for the weekend. I feel like it’s my first body hack. I’m having allergens injected into my body in hopes of toning down my body’s immune system reaction to them. It’s tricking my body into doing something the way I’d like, rather than the […]
I took four midterms today: one in statistics (experimental design), two in economics (game theory and industry structure), and one on databases. Even finals week won’t ever get this bad: we’re allowed to move a final if we have more than two in a 24 hour period (and with 21 credits, you’d better believe I’ve […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve started down the slippery slope of learning more about typography. I’ve subscribed to the RSS feed for ILoveTypography, and I’ve finally gotten my hands on The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst. Today, I had my first typographic moment. A nightmare, some may consider it. I’m sitting in a […]
I feel like I’ve let myself down, not dressing out for rugby practice this week. My inner workout/running addict wants to push myself, wants to run laps and do drills and just have a good time. But my practical, self-preserving side knows that another week of Advil to play, and limping the rest of the day […]
Reasons 18 through 20 why rugby and work don’t go together: It’s hard to sit still in a chair when your body aches in ways it’s never hurt before. Abraded ears make it hard to wear canalphones with cords looping over the ears. Torn elbows make chair arms painful to use.
Every time I learn a new thing about regular expressions, I find myself using it as a solution to every regular expression matching problem I find (see “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”). I just learned lookahead and backreferences, and now, for example I had this great paragraph about how […]
My Shure E2c headphones came yesterday from Amazon, traveling from North Carolina to Blacksburg, VA via USPS. Amazon shipped them out of their warehouse on Monday, Oct 1, and said that they’d arrive sometime this week. The USPS website, however, had something else in mind: their tracking data showed receiving them on October 1st, but […]
Note to OS X installer developers: if you change permissions on any subfolder of /System, breaking printing, Spotlight searching, and trackpad drivers, I will kneecap you. I have a Netgear MA111 USB Prism-based 802.11b wireless adapter. I bought it for testing KisMAC and fooling around with wireless protocols. Unfortunately, Netgear doesn’t make drivers for OS […]
In the fall of 2003, I made my first computer purchase, buying a used iBook G3 from eBay. No sooner had I bought the AppleCare extended warranty (with a student discount, thankfully, making it affordable for a high school student) than the backlight cut out when I opened the screen. I took it in for […]
Hacking the OS: Kernel Extensions and Software Updates My iBook G4 can’t be considered a computing beast by any stretch of the imagination. The internal drive was a measly 30 GB when I received it from Apple in the spring of 2005. As a workaround, I quickly migrated to external drives for storing data: starting […]
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