Sorry there’s been a dearth of posts lately. The internet connection in my room has gotten dumpier, so I can really only surf when on campus. Problem is, when I’m on campus, I’m usually in class, so I don’t get very much personal stuff done. Also, surfing definitely takes precedence over posting. I have no … Continue reading
I’m going to get real narrative in the next few posts. This was a pretty incredible weekend, a milestone of sorts in that I think it’s one of the only days ever when I wasn’t in contact with my computer to make a post. Yikes. I shall begin with the winetasting. I forget who heard … Continue reading
Took another sojourn to the electronics store today. Carl, one of the geeks here (and naturally a DAAD/SIP scholar), recently scooped up a router to use as an amplifier for the wireless signal broadcast from the university building next to our dorm. After he bought the router and flashed the firmware, he went from 30KB/s … Continue reading
I’ll be honest. Halloween kind of sucks. I haven’t been able to sucker anyone into giving me candy for very many years, so that part of the holiday is out. Although I guess I could befriend small children and rob them of the night’s haul, but the fake friendship period would be unbearable, as I’d … Continue reading
There was a huge party tonight for the Tourism department at school. This is appealing, because pretty much every girl at this school majors in Tourism. There’s a separate campus for those classes, too, the same as my E-society class, which I maintain I am taking for defensibly academic reasons. Anyway. The party was 7€ … Continue reading
Dilbert’s always been a favorite comic strip of mine. I think that over the past several years, the quality of it has declined, as the author just doesn’t need to try anymore. It seems like he gets so many submissions for ideas from disgruntled office workers that the strip pretty much writes itself. Well, good … Continue reading