September 2009 Entries
Apparently someone that received one of the aforementioned handouts decided it would be a great idea to add insult to injury. The guilty party scanned the handout containing all of my contact information and posted it to the armpit of the Internet, 4chan's /b/ board.
It's amazing how long you can spend safeguarding your privacy, yet how quickly those barriers that you've erected can be broken down with one fell swoop.
Some wonderful people decided to hand out roughly 150 flyers containing my name, phone number, e-mail and IM addresses, and Skype name to various people on campus. Now that I'm receiving a deluge of phone calls and e-mails IMs and Skype requests, I figured I'd let everybody know that I may end up changing my phone number and e-mail address if things keep up like this.
Thanks a lot, world.
Antony has sometimes spoken to me about how he drinks Coke out of cans, and with a straw. For various reasons, cost being the number one , I used to buy two-liter bottles in bulk and drink them out of a mug (to Antony: a cheap plastic one I got for Christmas, not expensive or glass or whatever). Since I was going to college I figured I'd stock up on cans, since they're easier to transport and would actually fit in the refrigerator here.
This turned out to be a bad idea. Why? Two weeks ago I had 72 cans, and...
I don't know what's so hard about operating a microwave: turn the dial and, if necessary, add some water. Yet in two weeks my entire residence hall has been evacuated three times, due to someone not following the "1-2-3" directions on the back of their food, then leaving the microwave and letting the entire floor fill with smoke.
This will become commonplace, I take it?
Somehow I'm not at all surprised that everybody in the laundry room has a laptop on them.
Does anyone remember my giant Wi-Fi antenna? I think it's now safe to say that I no longer need it; there are Wi-Fi access points located every fifty meters or so. The only place I've been so far where I haven't been able to get a Wi-Fi signal is the parking lot - residence halls, dining commons, laundry room, everything has Wi-Fi. It's a welcome change from having to use an antenna just to get a signal in some classrooms.
I wouldn't think that a...
Here's a short list of things I've learned, considered, and/or regretted these past few days:
When someone pulls the fire alarm at 6AM, you should grab a jacket, NOT your computer. Rochester is cold in the morning.
Always take a towel to the showers. An embarrassing mistake I made my first day, I ended up drying off with a shirt.
I really should have finished my streaming server before coming here. Aside from WITR 89.7, the campus FM station, there isn't an awful lot of radio around here, and the WFNX...