Bunneh!

To counteract everything depressing going on around the world, here is a happy little bunny to keep your spirits up.

Chain of Command

How about the Systems Administrator that controls the system that controls the Red Button? :P

Springtime in Rochester

The Cosmos

I stumbled upon this video (I believe) via StumbleUpon that really nicely uses the recordings of Carl Sagan and adds imagery of the universe to it to make it breath-taking and beautiful. This really was what I needed on a down day – something to be inspired by and to be reminded that the future is yet untold, and it is up to us to determine how we will use our lives.

Carl Sagan: The Story of Everything [Carl Sagan Tribute Series, Part 11]

All parts of the series are equally beautiful, so I would highly recommend watching those as well.

Spring? Syke.

Well this has been an interesting day. Woke up “on time” (alarm went off at 8, slept in until ~9 when I got up for class), and found out my class was online since my professor got stuck at home due to snow. At that point there was only an inch or two at most on the ground which isn’t much for Rochester, but that was sure changed by the end of the day. So essentially I got to act like my first – and only – class of the day was at 2 in the afternoon :)

 An inspirational technical text from RIT:

Earlier this evening, some email messages going in or out of campus, or to/from Exchange and Google Apps were delayed unusually long due to the weather.

While this doesn’t necessarily make sense, I’d be curious to know the actual details behind the incident. Sleep and homework comes first though.

Minor Dot Update

So I updated this site/blog a while ago when I changed hosting servers with the intent of actually updating it. It’s now over 3 months later (wow, time travels fast) and that same Pardon the Dust posting is still at the top. I guess that’s generally how college goes, no? Around the end of a semester or quarter one suddenly has lots of free time, it stays like that for a while, and then a new session of classes starts and your free time goes downhill.

My general amount of free time has definitely decreased during this spring quarter, and we’re only in the third week. It seems the mixture of classes that I’m taking, which aren’t incredibly hard (so far), have just taken over with work whether reading, writing, or analyzing texts.

2010-3 Courses:

• Information Security Policies (4050-360)
• Introduction to Databases & Data Modeling (4002-360)
• Computer Crime (0501-507)
• Financial Accounting (0101-301)
• Cultural Anthropology (0510-210)

Hopefully even though it’s the spring quarter I’ll be able to reprioritize my time make it so that I’m not up until 1 (or later) in the morning on a Tuesday doing homework for a class at 8am that same day. Last I checked this was still possible, right?

Well, I certainly hope so; we’ll see though, won’t we? :)

Pardon the Dust

Please excuse the broken links around the blog and my site in general currently. I’m in the midst of migrating everything to a new server, as well as upgrading some things like Gallery (from 2 to 3). If you see something broken, feel free to email me, otherwise I’ll hopefully get around to it when I can :)