The TV show Parks and Recreation centers around Leslie Knope, the Deputy Parks Director in Pawnee, a fictional town in central Indiana. Beneath the show’s jokes about the Midwest and outrageously exaggerated characters, Leslie serves as an example for every innovator.
I signed up for my spring courses this morning. I’ll have class from 9:55 to 12:35 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Today I finished up an interesting “tool” I’ve been working on after getting the idea from a tweet (the originator of which I’ve forgotten). Check out my $6.66 calculator.
OK, not terribly exciting, but I ran across an interesting challenge, and even more interesting solution while I was working on it.
For the past month and a half, I’ve been back at school continuing to work on my computer science degree. I registered for 4 computer science courses this quarter, which have kept me quite busy. Unfortunately, spending so much time on school meant that I haven’t been able to spend as much time doing freelance work as I had hoped. Over the past few weeks, as I’ve had more and more interesting projects proposed, I’ve shifted from not spending enough time freelancing to not spending enough time studying. As a result, my grades for the first half of this quarter have been less than stellar.
Well, I’m not really one to obsess over my grades, but I was still faced with a choice of saying no to more freelance work, or screwing up my GPA. So, I chose option number three.
While looking over my course requirements in preparation for Winter registration, I realized that I could take 12 credits per quarter and still graduate next year. Reducing my work load by one course per quarter will hopefully mean that I can take on more freelance projects, while maintaining better grades.
I’m ready to go. All of my things are packed and in a matter of hours I’ll be heading to Sea-Tac airport to fly back to Terre Haute. It’s been a great summer.
A couple days ago I wrecked my car. This is a frustrating event under any circumstances, but it is exceptionally inconvenient for me because I’m supposed to be making the two thousand mile drive to Seattle a couple days from now. [More]
Many people have been complaining recently about all the privacy issues with Facebook. There’s even a group of people promising to quit using Facebook after May 31st. At the time I’m writing this, they have just under 5 thousand people who have promised to quit. While that’s a fairly impressive number, it’s still only about 0.00125% of the Facebook population. There was a short time when I considered joining their ranks, but I eventually decided against it. Here is some of the rationale behind my decision.
The end of my sophomore year is quickly approaching (the main reason I haven’t posted in a while) and I’m pretty excited about what life holds for me this summer and beyond. As you may have noticed, I have a new counter on the right-hand side of my blog. In a little more than 2 weeks I’ll be on my way to Seattle!
As you may have seen, I launched a new blog about a week and a half ago to track how much sleep I’m getting. I think tracking my sleeping patterns has helped me get more rest, but that’s not really what this post is about.
I thought it might be interesting to talk about some of the customizations I made to the P2 WordPress theme that I’m using.
My sleep patterns have been ridiculous this quarter, so I’ve decided to track how much I actually sleep from today on.
I’m using P2, a theme developed by Automattic, along with a plugin I developed to automatically parse and track sleep hours from my posts. The running total will be displayed on the sidebar of the new site, as well as here.
Right then, I’ll let you get to it.