Day: August 31, 2004

Fritz and I were both planning to apply for a Churchill Scholarship, to do a year-long post-graduate program at Cambridge. It now seems very likely that we will be unable to do it, because the next GRE subject test isn’t until November, and since it’s a written test, the results wouldn’t be available until well…

I won’t even start on the rant that I don’t need a virus scanner because I have a Mac. They don’t require any virus scanning for Linux, and the vulnerabilities in OS X and Linux are roughly equivalent. First of all, the method used by Campus Manager to detect your computer and allow it/quarantine it…

First day of classes was today. Apparently this is the first time classes have been in session in August. Ever. Some weird timing issue with the dates, I guess. Thermofluid Mechanics was about what I expected; I hope the Prof. Macken starts writing more down on the board, because just talking at us isn’t nearly…