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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Drawing Class #2

November 4, 2009

Whoops… I keep forgetting to post images from class…. so I’m catching up now. We did basic shapes and depth in week 2.

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Drawing Class #1

October 1, 2009

I decided to take a drawing class this Fall so I would have something to look forward to during the week. I’m going to blog my awful drawings and hope that my skills improve over the semester. I haven’t taken an art class since elementary school (no Josh, computer video art in high school doesn’t [...]

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Magical disappearing iPhone alarm times

October 1, 2009

I don’t have a fix or anything for this… but anyone else experiencing a disappearing act with times in the iPhone’s alarms? This has been happening to me ever since the 2.0 firmware, both on my previous handset (original iPhone) and the new 3GS.

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Unstable airport drives under Snow Leopard (10.6)

September 5, 2009

I’ve been using my Drobo and several Western Digital hard drives plugged into my Airport Extreme for well over a year trouble-free. Since upgrading to Snow Leopard the connectivity is horribly unstable. Seems that the Finder drops connection to the Airport shared drives after about a minute or so. Also, the drives are not showing [...]

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Anything you say Mr. Laporte

August 24, 2009

Much to the pleasure of Audible, I have been completely swayed by the call of Leo Laporte to listen to audio books. A couple of weeks ago I joined Audible with the code provided on TwiT and gave it a go. My first selection was iWoz, an autobiography by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. It was [...]

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