i managed to stuff a seven-page essay (typed, single-spaced) onto a single sheet of paper in a space 8 inches by 10 inches (the size of a double-sided 5×8 note card) by reducing it to 6 point type, using a variable-width font rather than a monospace font, reducing the space between lines, using abbreviations (h8 […]

the prof has again been kind enough to give us the question prior to the final exam. this is a two-hour essay exam. for those of you who’ve been reading for a while, you’ll know that i got an 81 on the first essay exam, and an 88 on the multiple guess one.
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building […]

i’m a week late in telling you about it, but my history course’s exam 2 was last monday, and the instructor was kind enough to return the results the next day. my grade, after the curve, was 88. so i have a firm b in this course. all that’s left is the […]

big eyed fish
dave matthews band
live at folsom field
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look at this big eyed fish swimmin’ in the sea
oh, how it dreams to be a bird
swoop and dive through the breeze
so one day it caught this big old wave up onto the beach
now the fish is dead you see
cuz fish should know stay down in the sea
but […]

with a shout to new parents julie, julia, my georgeous and divine south african replacement wife tertia, and chris, and with all the love ever for the best parent-to-be i know (and i know it will happen!), cecily, today i offer some musings on things … well … scatological.
when ian was born, obviously we […]

i found the problem with apache, and it turns out to be doglady.
doglady had installed a file sharing program on one of my computers, and incoming requests to that program were being sent through the same place web requests go through. this overloaded my web server.
in the meantime i dropped back from debian sid […]

the first exam in the history course has been returned. as i said, i did better than i’d feared but worse than i’d hoped: i got an 81. the next exam is monday. remember, this is a five week course, so exams come fast and furious. but at least this […]

gone by. this week, i took an exam in my english (not british!) history 1 class that was one of the most challenging essay exams i’ve ever taken. the question, asking the student to trace the evolution of the legal system of england and the centralization of the nation state from 55 b.c. […]