Will Anderson

I was blessed this week to be able to spend some time with the members of my family who live too far away to visit often. It was great to be together and to share the joy of Thanksgiving as a family.

Eric Meyer often has humerus perspectives on life. I just found one of his more less recent projects: Excuse of the day.

[EDIT] It turns out this project is a lot older than I thought (as in over a decade older!). I assumed it was a lot younger because the twitter feed only goes back a couple of months. You can find out more about the project here.

I’ve been offered an internship opportunity for next summer with ANGEL learning. Apart from working in some development capacity, I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing (and I probably couldn’t talk about it even if I did), but from the information they’ve shared I think I’ll really enjoy it, and it’ll be a good experience for me. The environment I saw during my interview (and what I saw a couple years ago when my Dad worked there) is extremely friendly, and I’m excited to have the chance to be part of it.

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Two final exams down and two to go. I feel pretty good about the first two, so hopefully I’ll feel the same about the others. I gotta say though, I’ll be ready for the break when all this is over. I’m gonna get a lot of sleep, because going into winter term, I know I won’t be getting much. It’ll be fun though. Even though Computer Architecture I and Databases will be challenging, I think I’m going to really enjoy them (of course, we’ll have to see how I feel at the end of the term ).

Adrian Diaconescu has created a list of “8 common sense tips for writing clean WordPress blog posts”. If you haven’t read it, I suggest heading on over and having a look. Even if you don’t normally use WordPress, he shares some things that you might still find helpful if you ever have to publish content online.

http://rubiqube.com/8-common-sense-tips-for-writing-clean-wordpress-blog-posts/

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Well, I went to my interview with ANGEL Learning yesterday. We got a tour of the office space (wow they’ve grown in the past couple years!). We got a quick history of ANGEL, then we were given a demo of ANGEL itself (of course we were all from Rose, so they were able to skip most of the basics and show us some of the more advanced conrols available to professors). They served us an amazing lunch and then we split into different rooms for interviews. Of course, I don’t know exactly what the interviewers thought of me, but I definitely came away very impressed with ANGEL.

The last week of classes for this quarter is here. Dispite people’s usual expectations about 10^th week, my schedule really isn’t very full.

• I have a project due tomorrow, as well as an exam,
• I have a lab writup due Wednesday,
• I have a project I’m trying to finish by Thursday, and
• I have an interview with ANGEL Learning on Friday.

Hmm, maybe I’ll be busier this week than I thought.

Oh well, I guess that’s just part of being a student at Rose.

“… And even though we view the conservative lifestyle as an unusual way of life, we’ll still let Republicans marry each other.”

A quote from the Rose Thorn expressing the author’s opinion that the election outcome is good for everyone.

What I see (in the whole article, but especially in that sentence) is a complete moral turnaround from the values America held such a short time ago. Not only are those who believe homosexuality is wrong mocked, but the very heterosexual lifestyle is deemed as strange and unusual. We’re the one’s who need to be tolerated.

If that doesn’t scare you, I doubt anything ever will.

As for me, seeing the moral changes the past decade has brought about, I tremble to think what the next decade might bring.

Yesterday marked a historical moment for our nation. I am proud to live in a country that can elect someone to our most honored office without regard to race. The color of a man’s skin, though so trivial, has divided our country for centuries. I’m glad to be able to witness this great step our country has taken in the journey toward acceptance and inclusion of everyone, regardless of race.

My excitement and optimism ends here.

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Actually saw this on Eric Meyer’s web page, but I thought it was kinda cool.

While it eliminates the need for an extra HTTP request, it also means that the CSS style sheet will have to be larger for both IE and other browsers. Still, that’s probably faster than two HTTP requests.

paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames.