Get the hell out of my way

by Jamison Judd on February 11, 2010

I’ve been doing some deep thinking and reflecting about why I never seem to get caught up on anything. My conclusion was that I spend too much time worrying about the how and not enough doing the actual work. Ultimately this is my own fault, but a large part of the problem rests squarely on [...]

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I love this coffee mug

January 30, 2010

It’s just the right size (12 oz.), and the handle is a comfortable shape.
Sadly Starbucks seems to no longer be selling these. Anyone know where I can find a few more?

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What I need on the iPad

January 28, 2010

As a student and researcher, there are a few basic things I’m looking for in the Apple iPad

A word processor
Web browser
PDF reader with markup

At the Jan 27th presentation, Apple announced that each of the iWork applications was ported over for the iPad (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), so that takes care of the first. It’s running Safari, [...]

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Docstoc: making money off pirated documents

January 17, 2010

I was browsing through my Google Reader this evening when I ran across a Google Alert that came up for my name. Upon further investigation, the alert came from a site called docstoc that was hosting a PDF from the UConn Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. I’m 100% sure that neither I (as acting webmaster), [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions

January 1, 2010

Yes it’s trite, but it’s time once again to make resolutions for the coming year. Here are mine, and how I plan to accomplish them.

Create more, consume less
This is the year where I’m going to try and spend more time making things and less time passively consuming things. I dropped my cable in the fall [...]

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On the state of academic writing

December 13, 2009

Before I get to work on writing of a substantial means, I would really like to have a good system in place for handling things. All I really want is:

A way to mark up the document into sections
A way to easily cite references (ideally drag & drop)
A way to format that document similar to how [...]

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Windows 7 ungodly slow on netbook

November 8, 2009

I haven’t a laptop of my own, so I recently purchased a Dell Mini 10v. It runs pretty well in general, but recently I’ve been copying some files and it’s incredibly slow.
Just copying a bunch of small files (~1,600 files with a total size < 7mb) took almost 25 minutes. That seems INCREDIBLY slow, even [...]

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Drawing Class #5

November 4, 2009

Tonight we were given half of a forward facing person and asked to complete the other half using mostly values. I couldn’t quite make myself draw an exact mirror image like we were supposed to… but I think they turned out pretty well. It was the first drawing class where I wasn’t disappointed with my [...]

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Drawing Class #4

November 4, 2009

In this class we were given small mirrors and were supposed to focus on doing a self-portrait. I was not at all happy with how mine turned out. Oh well, guess I just need some more practice.

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Drawing Class #3

November 4, 2009

In class number 3 we worked on shading. Just picked out some weird objects from around the room. I ended up with a wine bottle, a small box, a tiny lantern with hurricane glass, and a pencil sharpener.

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