Grad school starts in a little over a week, and I’m very very excited. I don’t think I realized how much I missed the academic environment until I went to orientation this past Friday and chatted with a few of my future classmates about global warming, politics, and New Urbanism (people who know what New Urbanism is! Sweet!). I still need to order books, get a new U-Card, get a U-Pass for the mass transit system, and do a few more orientation things, but I have this week off of work, so I should have plenty of time to get that done.
Archive for August, 2006
Grad School and Cars
Monday, August 28th, 2006An Experiment
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006Lynn had me install Blender today, and I had my first go at making a movie. If all goes well, it should be linked on this post. You should check it out: First Blender Attempt
Personally, I think it looks like there is something attempting to escape the box. Horror movie fodder. I like it.
In completely random news, we picked up some beer today from a liquor shop that had a very large selection of imported and otherwise not widely known beers, most of which were dusty. We mentioned that at the checkout, and the clerk pulled out a feather duster and cleaned them off. I can’t say that I’ve ever had my beer dusted for me before. It was an interesting experience (and quite decent beer, too – Old Nick. It has a somewhat wine-like flavor.) I recommend having your beer dusted.
Harrowing Travails and Near Misses
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006I upgraded this weblog to the latest version of WordPress today. I was slightly worried after I attempted the first time and the log was completely inaccessible, but (clearly) it eventually pulled through. I think the problem was that the ftp program I was using was only updating files on the remote server that were smaller than local files, instead of overwriting all files with a different size. If I start to do anything more advanced with this, however, there could be more complications…