Random Nerd Rants

Category: Misc

  • Please yell if you’re paying attention

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    I wonder how many people still visit this blog. Since there’s seldom any comment to my posts, I cannot say if people read this or not. Of course, I have ShinyStat reports, but then again they show me only how many visits the blog has, and not how many people actually read it.

  • Programming C++

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    Years ago, I was an employee at the Veterinary School of my university. Sometime around the end of 2003 I decided that was not what I wanted to do for a living; what I really wanted was to do research, to find new things. I got that job because, in my first undergrad years, I…

  • It’s Alive!!

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    Some things never cease to amaze me. Months ago my computer simply stopped functioning. It wouldn’t start up for anything. I was afraid it was some problem with the motherboard and that I would have to buy a new one. After giving it some thought, I realized that it was much more likely that it…

  • About the Mega-Rant

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    The Mega-Rant I started days ago should have been a triple post. However, laziness and other minor details kept me from posting here, and so it probably is going to stay just a single poster. In other news, oh well, the Stairway to Heaven post was about me not knowing well enough what the heck…

  • Stairway to Heaven

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    Theres a lady whos sureAll that glitters is goldAnd shes buying a stairway to heaven.When she gets there she knowsIf the stores are all closedWith a word she can get what she came for.Ooh, ooh, and shes buying a stairway to heaven. Theres a sign on the wallBut she wants to be surecause you know…

  • Congress Attendance Discipline

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    So It’s been another big period without posts. I decided to just give up worrying too much about this and just post whenever I feel like it. Sorry people. I’ll try to arrange a rss feed so people don’t need to come here and simply not find anything new. I’ve been in a congress since…

  • Surprise!

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    I guess there’s a first time for everything. Today, for the first time, I got a surprise birthday party. Somehow in the past 25 years, when someone tried to arrange that I ended up being in the wrong place in the wrong time, and caught them. This time, though, it was they who caught me.…