Month: July 2004

I just bought my first ship in Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates: the Wrong Clownfish. I got really lucky with the coloring; she comes with blue and white trim, very close to my favorite color scheme of navy blue and medium grey. I’ve stocked her holds, but unfortunately, no one in my crew (the Bloody Scoundrels) is…

Goody. I have 12 instances of atoi() used in my program that I need to replace with strtol(). For those of you who don’t know, these functions convert a string of characters representing a number to an actual integer value. The function atoi has been deprecated because it is one of those string functions that…

Why I Work With Robots Edit: I corrected my 1:35 am spelling sklz.

Not $1000 of my own money of course – I wouldn’t make it through the school year, in terms of spending money. I ordered a new PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) camera for the robots. Not just any camera: a low-light version of the cameras we already use, with an infrared illuminator and a drop-in infrared filter for…

Had a very good customer service experience: I’m replacing my copy of The Confusion, because it came with a broken spine (a case of insufficient glue). The first two times I tried to process the return request, the e-mail I got from Amazon didn’t contain the necessary link to the printable return label. I used…

In further confusing breakfast developments, we had waffles, eggs, and bacon for dinner. This is on top of the fact that I had no real breakfast until 10:45 when Fritz brought in a pop tart. We were still out of milk, and I completely forgot about the fact that, due to the holiday and it…

710 Verbal, 790 Quantitative. Seems pretty good to me. I didn’t try the analytical writing section, since I’m not going to pay $10 for someone official to check a practice test, but I figure I can get at least a 5, based on the quality of the example essays, and the kind of BS I…

From a sample essay response in a GRE practice test: “Simply put, without specialists, our society would find itself bogged down in the Sargasso Sea of information overload.” Doctor, I think I hyperextended my metaphor! “Hammer To Fall” from Greatest Hits II by Queen

My sister has an LJ now! only has one post so far, but maybe if I keep annoying her, she’ll have more of a reason to post. “Bennie and the Jets” from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John

All of Bruce’s minions were invited over the the Maxwell’s for tie-dyeing and a BBQ. The food was delicious and seemingly never-ending, including fresh vegetables, fruit salad, greek-marinated pork in pitas with yogurt and peppers, grilled chicken, corn on the cob, and ice cream bars. Fox and the other kids played in the pool, and…