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December 13, 2010
Wait for it ....
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December 14, 2010
2202 - Huh. My first reaction to Theo's email (and forwarding of "Gregory Perry's" email) was Holy Crap! Then I finished reading the email, and read the email from "Gregory Perry", and thought to myself, #WTF ??? I know and have worked with Jason Wright. He's an upright honorable dude. This stinks of joe-job aimed at Gregory Perry, or a smear campaign aimed either at OpenBSD, Jason, or both. Somebody has pissed somebody off. It's gonna be a few interesting days on the obsd lists while this plays out.
I'm also working on my take-home final for the writing course. I'll finish that tomorrow evening, and bash through a couple of evenings of studying for my proctored CMIT final, to be taken on Saturday AM. Then I'm done for a month, until the next classes start rolling on January 18th. Ciao!
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December 15, 2010
2143 - Studying and taking care of dogs this evening. Oh, yeah, and Jason chimed in on the obsd foobar, with restraint and professionalism. That's all I've got time for. Ciao!
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December 16, 2010
2203 - One final down, one to go. And on this fourth day where the temps didn't rise above freezing, we ended up with a couple of inches of snow today. I'd not been paying attention because it wasn't in the forecast of a couple of days ago. Then bam, snow. No more in the forecast before Christmas, but then today's squittering wasn't in the forecast two days ago. And still, they (the AGW crowd) claim to predict the trend of weather 100 years from now. Asshats. Anyway, on to the next thing. Ciao!
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December 17, 2010
2038 - So, I'm now done studying for tomorrow's final. I've reviewed the session's material, and every quiz. The latter is most important since the test is likely to be a subset of quiz questions, just as the midterm was. I need 80% or better on the Final to get an A in this course. I expect to exceed that score considerably, but this is a hinky course with materials that disagreed with each other, reality, and the instructor. So I'll not count that chicken until it's hatched. I will know roughly how well I did by the time I walk out of the final tomorrow.
I left work early, to go over to Dulles and pick up Linda, who was returning home from a vacation with her folks. The traffic heading back really sucked and it turned into a 4 hour total trip. Still, everyone's home safe and sound, so that's a good thing.
Dr. Jennifer Pournelle has written a book, Outies, set in the CoDominium universe shortly after events depicted in Niven and Pournelle's The Gripping Hand. My first thought was, "I want this book." My second thought went out by email...
Subject: Outies is only a Kindle book?
That's sad. I want this book, but I want to hold books, to read them until they go to pieces, to lend them to friends until one forgets to return it, then I can buy another. I don't have any Kindle books, and aside from Amazon's occasional forays into corporate censorship, I won't buy a Kindle book until it's mine forever, to have and to hold and to lend.
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December 18, 2010
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December 19, 2010
2057 - So the final went fine yesterday, I think. Total driving time to and from the testing site: 34 minutes. Total time spent taking a 100 question multiple choice test composed almost exclusively of rerun questions from the quizes: 20 minutes. Yeah, I read fast, and remember stuff.
Y'see, I'm sad now. I ordered a shirt from woot.com. On November 29. They said it takes up to five days to ship. On December 5, the account showed that the shirt had finally shipped. It was one of those FedEx links that often don't show progress until the package arrives. Yeah, well. A week later, I sent Woot an email, asking why the tracking number still didn't show any activity, and why I didn't have a shirt. The next day, I had an email saying that "The tracking number we gave you was wrong. Here's a new tracking number [... for a package we shipped yesterday right after you sent us this email]" I filled in the part in brackets for them. Now it's a week later. The tracking number shows that the package is in transit, having left someplace in West Virginia a week ago. Hey, I could have WALKED to West Virginia in a week! Doesn't matter when the shirt shows up. Woot takes three weeks to fulfill an order? #FAIL, for me, for ever more.
Today, shopping, then cleaning house until I was out of energy. Marcia's turkey chili for supper, yum!
Our condolences to the families and units of the fallen warriors reported by DoD this week.
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