I posted the following reminders above my desk because I can’t seem to remember this stuff to save my life.
Archive for February, 2006
Always the last to figure it out
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006The End of an Era
Saturday, February 18th, 2006Looks like my very first email address is gone for good…
Ah, GR2STARR. Hard to believe that was a decade ago. The DEC Alpha server that hosted that account—and on which I learned Pascal—was rumored to have 64 megabytes of memory. Sixty-Four Megabytes.
I suppose if I wanted the full computer nostalgia experience, I could install GNU Pascal and run GLTerminal full-screen. Of course, that leaves out the insanity of using VMS, but some experiences are fun only in retrospect…
Events in which I could potentially medal:
Monday, February 13th, 2006- Figure Bungo
- Alpine Uncertainty
- 1500 meter Speed Rant
- Nordic Combined GarageBand Noodling
- Men’s Half Pipe Of Ambivalence and Doubt
- Short Track Quotidian Irritation Relay (on a team with me, Julia, Bianca, and Jessica)
- Curling
Poor curling. It’s always the punch line.
ASCII Star Wars
Sunday, February 12th, 2006Fire up your telnet clients or terminal windows, friends—and make some popcorn. It’s time to watch a movie.
A dumb haole responds to Ms. Cataluna
Saturday, February 11th, 2006Dear Ms Cataluna,
I came to Hawai’i not long ago—last July, actually—for graduate school. UH Manoa offered me a modest scholarship and has a good reputation in my field of study, so with no particular prior interest in or knowledge of Hawai’i, The Place, I moved across an ocean to an environment radically unlike any I’d ever experienced before.
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