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Jun
26
I am just sharing this because it’s about my alma mater, it’s a little funny in a geeky way, and I like Mark’s blog.
Check out this story about CIT and Cornell labs.
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May
2
Happy Slope Day!
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To all the heathens on the hill back at Cornell! Hope the weather’s nice and the entertainment is fun.
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Jan
21
A clip from my Cornell Past
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Ah, it’s so fun looking back at Cornell now that I no longer have to deal with all the BS.
Professor Delchamps Plays The Cornell Alma Mater (First Few Notes) on a Moog Synthesizer on Vimeo
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Dec
30
Pao Bhangra!
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Which means “do Bhangra!” or “dance Bhangra!” Bhangra is a wonderful and catchy style of dance from the Punjab region of India. View this clip from the introduction to Pao Bhangra 1 at Cornell University! You can follow the link to Vimeo to see the rest of the clips, go to www.dropthebombproductions.com or come back to this blog over the next few days when I post the next part.
In order to get my video to fit within Vimeo’s upload limits, I had to split up the video into different parts. This is also from VCD disc 1 that I created for them.
Pao Bhangra Disc 1, Part 1
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Oct
2
Memories of Cornell
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As I went though my top 200 photos, this was had 121 views and I clicked on it. It gives me great memories of friends, but it reminds me of how happy I am to have graduated. School was stressful and I always felt like I was just one step away from failing out of Cornell. In the end I did alright and graduated with a B average, but while I was there, going to school, it just felt so hard. I sympathize with all the freshman who are just starting to deal with their first exams right about now.
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Aug
7
Ithaca’s Largest Sliderule
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Jun
15
I started upgrading my laptop from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 today. After 9 hours it STILL wasn’t done. This is because I was installing it on a P3 600 Mhz computer. Hopefully I’ll get to play with it a little tomorrow. If not, I’ve got all the time after the wedding to play with and explore this sucker. Plus, the way people are complaining about different issues on the Fedora List-serves, it’s apparent that waiting a few days probably wouldn’t be such a bad idea as it will give the teams some time to patch up whatever software isn’t working quite right.
I haven’t attempted to put it on my “main” Linux computer just yet. This is because this computer uses the ndiswrapper package to connect wirelessly to the internet. That package depends on a specially patched kernel which I had to download from the ndiswrapper site. Until they come up with a Fedora Core 4 patched kernel, I don’t think I’m going to be able to upgrade this computer. Also, since I use it more often it will probably be best to get the kinks out of the system with the laptop and then apply that knowledge to this computer.
Hopefully by the time Fedora Core 6 is coming out I’ll have been able to afford a better computer to have Linux on. I doubt I’ll be able to have my ULTIMATE COMPUTER just yet. That may have to wait a little longer as I put it off for more important things like buying a house. Plus, I’d rather have the camera I lust after than a faster computer since this one meets my needs. I mean, once I really start working and the wedding is over, I doubt I’ll have too much free time to be messing around with computers. Like it or not, I think the stereotype about the computer geek not having a sex life must be true because most wives will not tolerate too many nights of said geek sitting in front of the computer and giving it more attention than her. Don’t know how husbands of computer geeks would take it since female computer geeks, while a growing population, are still a very small percentage - at least if you base it off of the guy:girl ratio I saw in my Computer Science classes at Cornell.
Speaking of Cornell, I don’t miss it one bit. All I miss are my friends (who I didn’t see that often to begin with) and my fiancee which I will be seeing quite a lot of in about 15 days.
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Jun
10
Crazy things….
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This is not one coherent post, but a post about crazy things that have recently occurred.
Crazy thing number 1: New York City Mayer, Mike Bloomberg, has announced that from now on the building code in NYC will state that for every toilet in a men’s room there must be two toilets in the women’s room. This, he hopes, will ameliorate the age-old problem of women’s bathrooms having ridiculously long lines when compared to a men’s room. He joked that he would no longer need to wait outside the women’s room for his wife.
Crazy thing number 2: I had been trying to setup email forwarding for my Cornell account before they delete it. I kept getting an error every time I did it so I emailed Cornell. They told me that people have been having trouble signing up with Netscape and Firefox that I should use IE. As you guys know, this infuriates me! So I said, “What could I use instead of Internet Explorer?” On a whim I decided to use elinks. elinks, for those of you who don’t know, is a text-based web browser. There is no GUI at all. Yet, IT WORKED! So the latest browser doesn’t work, but one based on ancient technology does. Go figure!
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Jun
3
Thanks God!
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Got FIVE As this final semester of my four years at Cornell, so I just had to thank God for that.
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Jun
3
Graduation!
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I now have a newly minted Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Phillips School of Electrical Engineering. So that’s it, I’m official now. I now have my first degree. How do I feel? I feel like I’m on summer vacation. Doesn’t feel any different than any other summer. It DOES feel really good when I tell someone that I’ve graduated. It has the accomplishment feeling to it. Also, I get to tell people that I graduated from Cornell and that usually gets another round of congrats. It’s funny because for the past two days I’ve been really busy helping out around the house, unpacking my computers, and doing wedding preperations, but at the same time it feels like an eternity until my marriage.
Graduation itself was a fun little ceremony. I will probably upload some pictures when I get internet set up on my main computer. For now it’s a little too much of a hassle to transfer it to my laptop to then upload it to the server. Cornell had all of us line up in the Arts Quad by school. Then we went in a counter-clockwise circle around the quad towards the clocktower. There we kept walking towards Day Hall and then behind the Statler, to the stadium. Impossible as it may seem, I saw my parents as I walked past them, despite the thousands of family members there. They actually got about 3 pictures of me as I passed by.
We waited for the rest of the schools to come in and then President Lehman gave his speech. The speech made heavy use of Star Wars metaphors. He warned us not to go to the “dark side” - narrow vision and quick judgement. It was good and I thought he did a thourough job of making the analogy. Something still sounded wrong with it and a lot of people didn’t like it. I think the biggest reason is that it sounded too much like he was trying to be cool. After everyone and their mom who gave a speech that weekend referenced Snoop Dogg (or Snoopy Dogg), it seemed like everyone was trying a little too hard to be cool. Still, he was able to keep the speech from being boring and overall I’d probably give it an 80/100. It was nowhere near as boring as I thought it would be. I may write more about this event if I feel moved to do so, but I feel that a lot of the feeling has passed, so this is all I felt like writing.
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May
7
life is good
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Life always good - today it was better than usual. Can’t talk about it right now because of professional reasons, but I just have to thank God for being in control and also giving me a little to chew on here and there so I don’t get too impatient.
Also, later today, the big slope day expose. Tune in for nudity, Snoop Dogg, and more drunken college students than you can shake a stick at.
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May
6
the end part 1
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the last day of my last year at Cornell….
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