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Archive for May, 2004

To fail or not to fail

Posted by John on May 31st, 2004

When I was in elementary and middle school, I believed that there were some teachers who simply delighted in the failure of their students. It wasn’t until high school that I realized that while there are some teachers who are completely indifferent to their students’ academic success, most genuinely cared and would help those [...]

Short break at work + Fresnel lens

Posted by Jordan on May 26th, 2004

I’d explain, but do I really need to? Yeah, I’m a copycat. And one with faint sunspots in my vision still. My sunglasses are no where near dark enough for that sort of work. Burning the concrete was so easy that I suspect it was actually something in the concrete [...]

Gmail?

Posted by Jordan on May 25th, 2004

Have any of the 4 readers of this site gotten gmail invitations yet? I’d like to try to service out, but I’m not desperate enough to go trolling sites look for friend of a friend of a friend thing to try to wheedle my way into it. But if someone here would like [...]

Longest Product Name Ev-ar

Posted by Jordan on May 24th, 2004

I broke down and bought an mp3 player last week. Or at least, I thought I did. I’m still waiting on the darn thing to ship and have been very very ticked off at first buy.com, and now gameve.com. Both say ‘in stock 1-2 days’ however buy.com admitted about 3-4 days after [...]

Don’t Walk

Posted by Jordan on May 20th, 2004

For all my blustery talk about copyright issues and other silly things that get me in a wad, I rarely do something. Well, the EFF made this too easy for me not to. So I’m encouraging everyone else to do the same. Go, read the letter, and send it automatically to [...]