a random waste of bits

I just handed in my last assignment ever.

I am done with school.

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in related news, type theory and the internet are ruining me.

Experiment: Bacon + chocolate (bacon grilled on a skillet, then dried on a paper towel, dipped in a chocolate + butter + half & half mixture)

Results: The chocolate is fairly overpowering, generally tasting like salty chocolate.

Final verdict: Neither good nor bad.

You know it's humid when you don't need a hazer for your lights.

This poll somewhat inspired by a recent post of brad's, mainly cause I thought my own results were somewhat odd.

Don't think about the answers too hard, just take whatever sounds most natural. (Say the options aloud, if you'd like.)

[Poll #1006482]


In unrelated news, I should stop leaving the office after the next day's xkcd comic is posted.

Thunderbird 2 finally hit portage recently, and I'm now even more annoyed with it. Some of you may know that I abandoned Firefox for Opera several months ago, and I have been quite happy with this decision ever since. I've also been looking for a better email client, but have thus far failed.

Basic requirements:
- Should be reasonably fast. This is why I'm getting annoyed with Thunderbird.
- Needs to run in Linux
- Needs to support IMAP
- Needs to support multiple email accounts (e.g. Jeffsweb and CMU) fairly nicely
- Should be stable

I have other more subtle features desired, but these are my basic requirements.

I've tried Opera's built-in email client, but it fails for one simple reason: it collects all emails from all IMAP folders into a single inbox. This is a major problem considering how CMU handles organizational bboards. So that's a no-go.

I hear lots of people raving about mutt, but it seems scary and I'm not sure how well it supports multiple accounts, anyhow.

Ideas?

A very important poll follows. If you're not a student at CMU and you've never visited, you can probably ignore it.

[Poll #932954]

This is why we normally use high-temperature gels when we mount PARs on bases and run them at full intensity (1000W):



Oops.

Also, you can't see it in this picture, really, but the gel is a bit melted around the "R384" written in sharpie, as the black ink absorbed more heat than the blue.

(Yes, my cameraphone sucks, but you get the gist of it.)

I don't know whom to recommend for laptop hardware anymore.

My Dell laptop has seen its share of issues; last spring, one of the hinges that attaches its LCD broke, and I just got around to getting it fixed. The thing with Dell, though, is that their support has always been really fast - they shipped it out the day it was received. It's hard to complain about that service (if you ignore the time they replaced my LCD with the wrong type).

My IBM/lenovo thinkpad had been working fine for a while, until it started acting up at Thanksgiving and again midway through finals. I sent it in once I got home for break, and it arrived at their depot on December 21. It is still on "parts hold" with no ETA given. With my luck, they will probably ship it back to my Pittsburgh address instead of the one here, though given how long it's taking, that may be the better option anyway.

I'm just a tad bit unimpressed with their service.

So now I can't recommend Dell or IBM/lenovo products. Who's next?

Zocks! I am ze "old."

Now to figure out what to do the rest of today, besides all of the work due in the next week which I must finish this weekend. Yay?