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2013-05-16 18:35:14 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm so happy to find out the hard way that Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't allow remote desktop connection, so even though I own Windows 7 on my desktop, I can't reach it (and all the windows-specific programs I need) from class with my linux tablet. Lovely artificially handicapped software!

2013-05-16 17:46:40 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

I just killed a fly, in midair, with a paper towel roll. I am WONDER WOMAN!

2013-05-02 17:45:19 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Guess they saved LeVar Burton for the sequel.

2013-05-02 01:00:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Hey, I'm going to be running a tabletop RPG based in the Firefly Verse this summer, and I'd like story ideas please :) Here's the setting thus far:

Setting: after Simon has rescued River from the Academy, but shortly before Miranda is broadwaved, the nefarious government-sponsored institution is still operating on exceptionally talented individuals, trying to craft an elite force "ideal for defense deployment". But when the Serenity gang exposes how they created the Reavers, their entire operation(s) is(are) at great risk. Problem is, how do you shut down a group of highly trained psychic assassins?!?

In this world, PCs will get to be a student in the Academy at various stages of training. (One is actually a graduate who is deployed to help the up-and-coming recruits with their field work) After a couple of sessions to help establish relationships and... more »

2013-05-01 16:54:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-29 03:25:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Cough cough. Hack hack. Stay back.

Looks like I'm taking a final tmrw morning and infecting all my classmates with this 48+ hour fever thing. Oh, and failing it in the process, since I've been sick and slightly hallucinogenial throughout my entire two day study period. But since I don't have a stupid doctor's note, I must be faking it.

2013-04-26 15:23:38 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Wow. I'm so glad I discovered this during finals! ...not

2013-04-23 15:13:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-22 19:13:18 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Life isn't complete without a little #disney  music. For a pick-me-up on your Monday:

2013-04-22 03:05:40 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

This might just be the perfect one-size-fits-all greeting card.

Card by Compendium (via Reddit).

2013-04-22 02:49:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

#reddityoink  

2013-04-16 02:15:30 (11 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Hey, I'm going to be running a tabletop RPG based in the Firefly Verse this summer, and I'd like story ideas please :) Here's the setting thus far:

Setting: after Simon has rescued River from the Academy, but shortly before Miranda is broadwaved, the nefarious government-sponsored institution is still operating on exceptionally talented individuals, trying to craft an elite force "ideal for defense deployment". But when the Serenity gang exposes how they created the Reavers, their entire operation(s) is(are) at great risk. Problem is, how do you shut down a group of highly trained psychic assassins?!?

In this world, PCs will get to be a student in the Academy at various stages of training. (One is actually a graduate who is deployed to help the up-and-coming recruits with their field work) After a couple of sessions to help establish relationships and... more »

2013-04-05 23:56:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Michael Caine Does Michael Caine

Simply the greatest. Happy Friday, my Plussers.

2013-04-02 15:11:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Quotes from class: "[Credit cards] are technology from the 1960's. Someone took a cassette tape and said 'Wouldn't it be great if we put unencrypted data on these?' And so they did." - Dr. Lauf

2013-04-01 17:38:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

WolframAlpha joined in the fun! #aprilfools  

2013-04-01 13:10:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I can't get enough of this.

2013-04-01 00:53:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

This one is my favorite! 
#googlenose  

2013-03-30 19:40:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I just had to use this quote. Thanks +Mike Elgan for putting what we all feel into words.

2013-03-28 16:15:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If corporations are persons with all the rights of a person, than are persons corporations with all the rights of a corporation? Does is work both ways, or are corporations the most free people around?

This article piqued my interest because it has the strange affect of inducing two conflicting ideas: First, "That's horrible! People shouldn't be able to sell themselves into this quasi slavery." and second, "What a great way to ensure you're getting quality advice! People work harder when potential profits are at play." and "I wish I had known about this when he was offering shares..."

But as I think more heavily on this, I'm struck by how this reduces quality of life to a question of money. 

2013-03-26 22:04:32 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Teachers, if you put this on a test....argh, don't!
18 Question text here...
a. Beta
b. Alpha

2013-03-26 20:16:13 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Hey Advertisers, I've got a question for you?

Why, baby? Why? 

You see, the staggering information in the article below, is COMMON knowledge within your industry, yet you persist in degrading the web experience for many, wasting time, money, resources and bandwidth feeding the public what they DO NOT WANT. 

You look at Google, and the fact that they manage to generate ten times the revenue of Facebook, while on their platform (the only one that actually works) they deliver less than half the advertisements. 

When does it occur to your industry that a huge majority of people only want to see advertisements when they are looking for them, or in the process of purchasing something relevant to your advertisement?

This is not rocket science, people. What works, is Adworks. What works is Adsense. What doesn't work? Practicallyeveryt... more »

2013-03-26 15:58:48 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Quotes from class: "If I ever see one of you guys make this mistake, I will come and find you, and ask you to change it nicely." - Dr. Lauf

2013-03-21 20:23:33 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

I'm pretty sure Chrome just killed all my pages so he could show off his new "Aw, snap!" page. I'm perfectly ok with this :D

2013-03-21 15:15:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I watched this video twice and cried both times. 

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/honoring-students-with-special-needs

I'll donate $1 for each public share of this post up to, say, $2,000. Let's bring a little joy into these kids' hearts.

Hat tip to +Chris Brogan 

2013-03-21 05:00:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

#googlekeep  is live!!! This was my first list :)

#imthankfulfor   #google  

2013-03-19 18:28:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Appearing as a guest at a big convention like MegaCon is a lot of fun, but it’s also exhausting. People always ask me if my arm or hand or wrist is tired near the end of a long day of signing, and I always tell them the truth: my body never gets tired; it’s my brain that is exhausted. Signing is so much more than, well, signing. It’s listening and engaging and sharing moments and meeting hundreds of people in a relatively short amount of time, doing my best to not rush people while understanding that the person in front of me and the person still waiting behind them may have been in that line for over an hour. It’s drawing out shy kids who are excited to meet me, but don’t know what to say. It’s handling people who can be a little strange — if harmless — who may not know when it’s really time for them to move on. It’s telling someone that I’m sorry, but I can’t sign that thing, or Ican’t pose for that pic... more »

2013-03-14 18:04:43 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Part of the problem of trying to learn how to write a pop-up box for a website, is that all the sites that know how to make pop-ups...make pop-ups.

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to put ads on my site, these are info boxes I'm trying to write.

2013-03-14 13:35:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Happy Pi day y'all!

2013-02-25 19:03:31 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#topfloorproblems

2013-02-24 05:00:13 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

I love how our TA copyrights the project instructions he gives us. Like anyone is going to want to reuse his obfuscated, poorly-worded, and inevitably incomplete directions.

2013-02-22 21:59:30 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Scroogled!!!

2013-02-22 21:54:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

So I'm watching through Buffy and Angel in airing order, and I'm in seasons 7/4 right now. This is my first time through, so don't tell me stuff! But I was talking with some friends the other day and we realized I missed something pretty stinking important...
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When the Watcher's Council blows up in "Never Leave Me", it is NOT clear that the random building that the film cuts to is the Council. In fact, because the speech wraps up so well, I thought the explosion was the beginning of the next scene, and was expecting to find out what it was later. Did anyone else think this when they first saw it?

2013-02-21 16:04:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Quotes from class: (After walking in at exactly 11:00) "A professor arrives precisely when he means to." and later "I am not a wizard of the graphical arts. That's a dark art." - Dr. Lauf

2013-02-21 12:35:09 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 20 +1s)

LoL

2013-02-19 16:37:32 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Quotes from 525 class: "I assume you all have some kind of heater in your house; that's why you're not dead." -Dr. Lauf

2013-02-18 18:00:26 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I need a volunteer.

2013-02-18 17:02:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

BREAKING: Mississippi bans slavery.

An immigrant from India, inspired by the movie Lincoln, did some research and discovered that the state of Mississippi never officially ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which bans slavery. 

Ranjan Batra, who is an associate professor of neurobiology and anatomical sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, went home after seeing the movie and went to the site USConstitution.net. There, he discovered a footnote on ratification of the amendment that said: "Mississippi ratified the amendment in 1995, but because the state never officially notified the US Archivist, the ratification is not official."

Wait, 1995?

It turns out that Mississippi refused to ratify the amendment in the 1860s, then forgot all about it until 1995. When lawmakers in the 1990s realized that the state stillhadn... more »

2013-02-17 13:34:36 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Woke up with the Pokemon theme song in my head. I wonder what kind of day I'll have today?

2013-02-15 17:05:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

I bought Burger King with my phone! I was so excited I showed the girl in the window and we both freaked out together! It made my day :-)

2013-02-15 01:47:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

#vd  

2013-02-15 01:05:13 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

The geometry of music revealed!  The red lines connect notes that are a major third apart.  The green lines connect notes that are a minor third apart. The blue lines connect notes that are a perfect fifth apart.

Each triangle is a chord with three notes, called a triad.  These are the most basic chords in Western music.   There are two kinds:

A major triad sounds happy.  The major triads are the triangles whose edges go red-green-blue as you go around clockwise.

A minor triad sounds sad.  The minor triads are the triangles whose edges go green-red-blue as you go around clockwise.

This pattern is called a tone net, and this one was created by David W. Bulger.  There's a lot more to say about it, and you can read more in this Wikipedia article:
http:... more »

2013-02-13 17:59:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Show your favorite Ingressphile that they light up your life (like an XMP burst) with one of my Ingress Valentines :)
+Brandon Badger +Joe Philley +Niantic Project 

2013-02-12 19:29:57 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Happy Early #ValentinesDay

2013-02-08 05:40:52 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

I'm pretty sure it's a fundamental law of programming that true motivation can only be achieved after midnight.

2013-02-07 19:21:13 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Hey, guys everywhere: You look really good in vests. You should wear them more often, even to class. Seriously, it's awesome.

2013-02-06 16:49:20 (133 comments, 802 reshares, 1049 +1s)

This is the funniest thing I have seen shared on facebook (that I didn't see here first) in a long time!

h/t +Sam Davenport 

2013-02-04 23:52:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Announcing Make the Switch

Today, we're very excited to announce a project that we've been working on with the writers of +Google Plus Daily, as well as some big +Google+ personalities who will be posting over the next 28 days.

Make the Switch: www.maketheswitch.me
Community: http://goo.gl/BGATX

We’re launching Make the Switch, a campaign to inform users of how Facebook has been treating them badly and to show them how Google+ makes for a much better experience.

We created Make the Switch to highlight the benefits of Google+ as well as educating users about Facebook's poor practices  The website displays 5 simple steps on how users can make the switch to Google+, and to inform others why and how they've done so.

We Need Your Help

We’re asking G+ users everywhere to check out and sharewww.ma... more »

2013-02-02 22:52:08 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Four tests this Tuesday, and a project due on Thursday. I'm only taking five classes. Doesn't that mean I win the lottery or something?

2013-02-02 05:22:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Fund Me, Maybe?" from this year's +AAAS... (via +Joanne Manaster)

/cc +Brian Jepson +Edd Dumbill +Meghan Blanchette +Julie Steele +Kaitlin Thaney 

2013-01-30 20:51:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Every programmer is a pair programmer.  Your pair partner is Murphy.  (He builds hardware, too.)" - Michael Chastain