Dear Amy, I am pleased to tell you that the Department has recommended that you be admitted to the doctoral program in Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, effective for the Fall 2005 term. Like all doctoral students, you will be supported financially as a graduate Research Assistant….
I’ve always thought of myself as an enthusiastically positive, and easy-to-please person. I’ve always maintained a set of personal beliefs, interests, and opinions but strive not to impose those upon others or judge anyone by any kind of standards. I’ve never really been one of those people who fit into…
Inspired yet again by Russ’s ingenuity, I have a contest for you all to participate in. The winner gets bragging rights. I’d offer a gmail account, but I heard they’ve gone public, so who cares. The other day, I posted about the possibility that Russ could have actually created an…
Russ, Nathan, Ryan, and I were having a random conversation last week about music piracy and Russia’s Allofmp3.com loophole, which led to talk of other possible legal loopholes for MP3s. The conversation kept revolving around the idea that a number cannot be copyrighted, and that all digital files are exactly…
Update: March 2006 I just noticed that this post has been getting a lot of traffic lately from people looking for the SxSE festival in Myrtle Beach, SC. Somehow it has bubbled to the top of Google’s index on the topic even though it was from last year and was…
Last July, I bought a GPS receiver so that I could make Amy “hunt” for a present that I bought her and so we could try out geocaching on our anniversary trip to St. Augustine. We haven’t been out much looking for cache’s, but the time we have spent has…
I consider myself pretty well versed in the art of standard compliant css layouts. Somehow I’ve picked up enough about CSS to be considered an expert around the office. I routinely get asked all sorts of questions about how to do this or that with css by my co-workers. I…
Ames and I are surrounded by friends that are having babies these days. The latest addition to that list are Robby & Megan Fanelli, who just had Robby Jr. on February 27th (the day before my birthday!) We don’t plan on having kids anytime soon, but you have to admit…
The following is the 3rd of a 3 part series entitled CSS Underwear. If you haven’t yet, you should go back and read the intro. One might have though I had forgotten about the 3rd installment of my CSS underwear series. It’s been 20 days and 5 posts since my…