Recent Updates
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Cats keep sitting on me, preventing me from getting anything done or participating in any of my hobbies.
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Today in Tales from the BugMaster, a student reported the following error in the homework system: “This is against what you teached in the book u nub.”
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Today in HIPAA violations, I received an email from a medical practice where I am not a patient wishing me a happy birthday. Someone with my name who lives in the Chicago area is a patient of a particular medical practice, and her birthday is today. I called their office to let them know about this situation, but no one returned my call. Yet.
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Fun fact about calling businesses in Chicago. (Sorry if you already read this on Twitter.) Their phone tree starts out like usual for a medical practice: “To make an appointment, press one. If you are calling from a doctor’s office, press two. Para español oprima tres.” I didn’t catch all the words in the next part, but I definitely heard polskiego and cztery. Good thing that there weren’t more options before we reached this point, as I can recognize the words for the numbers from one to five and then some number that is either nine or ten. I will never be able to say the word that means “three.”
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The seemingly boring button clicking thing that I posted the other day is growing into a larger project. But I need to redo it because it has become a nest of CSS classes and jquery, and I probably should change it to use layers. Or maybe not?
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If you are looking for me this coming weekend, I will be in Schenectady.
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I have a new next door neighbor. A long time ago my neighborhood was made up of single-family homes. My building (seven apartments) sits where a house used to be. However, next door is a house with a large backyard. My neighbor seems to have a large number of vintage Volkswagens in the yard at all times. There are always at least two microbuses, but I definitely remember seeing three at one point. There might have been more? Yesterday there were a lot of the old style Beetles, but they seem to be gone today.
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The ridiculous GIFs continue. Originally I had a link to one of them here together with the commands I used to make it in ImageMagick. BUT THEN IT STOPPED WORKING. It moves back and forth on my phone and on Facebook, but it gets stuck here. So I took it away.