Rant: Letter to Office of IR @ FSU

Dear Department of Institutional Research:      Your department implements holds on a students records in a most unethical way. It is not part of a students responsibility to conduct an assessment of your faculty and at no time between admissions and registration for classes is such a responsibility communicated. You describe the process of registering […]

Amendment to Image Coding Rules

This blog entry amends “My Image Coding System”. Cropped Naming (Multiple Orientations of Same Crop): DSC_9999-8×10L.jpg or DSC_9999-8x10P.jpg Due to a client specifically requesting 8×10 format, I have found myself in a situation where I will attempt crops multiple ways, since the low ratio 4:5 lends itself to taking things either direction, compared to something […]

Exploring TeX

Since I am an aspiring graduate student, I have decided that I want to write my next Psychology paper using TeX/LaTeX, but so far it is not being as simple to get into as I thought it would be. The syntax is clunky and there aren’t really any WYSIWYG tools to assist in getting started. […]

Priorities for Spring 2011

In considering course options for Spring, in the elective space, I have narrowed down my options quite a bit. At this point, my decision will be based on availability of courses. 1st choice: SOCI 560, Advanced Sociological Theory, at Fayetteville. It is a graduate level course and will require me filling out paperwork and getting […]

RT: Fall Reversal Freaks Me Out

There is something disturbing about looking at a clock and not realizing if you are going through the first 1am hour, or the 2nd 1am hour. The fall reversal of DST freaks me out (more than the sudden loss of an hour at DST execution).

GRE Vocabulary

I have been spending a little time working on preparing for the GRE by learning its vocabulary. I am having a little difficulty with it because I have not really had to artificially expand my vocabulary in a while, usually words just come naturally to me, but these aren’t like that. I usually do pretty […]

My First Apple Pie

I have baked a lot of things, but this is my first apple pie. I guess in general I don’t like apple pie that much, but I had the spare apples around and decided to take the opportunity to bake a pie.  The crust is a standard pie crust (flour, shortening, water), but with half […]

Waiver of NOS 110

In my list of potential elective course, I listed a course, NOS 120 (“Linux/Unix Single User”). That course had a pre-requisite, NOS 110. NOS  110 – Operating System Concepts This course introduces students to a broad range of operating system concepts, including installation and maintenance. Emphasis is place on operating system concepts, management, maintenance, and […]