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I don’t have access to a computer, but I have got this high-speed-low-drag Android phone with a WordPress app. So this entry is gonna be short and sweet: I got a 1450 on the GRE. Verbal: 700, Quantitative: 750. (Essay scores are not out yet.) This means (I hope) that, contingent on a similarly stellar ...

The old blog is archived. Find it here.

Goodbye, guys.

Only now, at the end, do I understand. I’m keeping this blog, regardless of Jimmmmyboy’s instructions to archive it. Archival’s got such finality to it, and I’m not ready to give it up. It shouldn’t be syndicated after Thursday, that’s for sure, but I plan to keep on keepin’ on – both here and within ...

I’ve been studying for the GRE for about an hour and a half by this point this morning and I find that I have more difficulty with the math than with the verbal. If you know me at all, you’ll probably be wondering why that is. As y’all know, I am, in fact, a mathematician ...

Here I talk about Clerks. How did I do it? Badly, apparently. When this class started, I had some issues getting things done in Linux but I decided I wasn’t going to let it hold me back. And now, I present to you my video essay, wherein I try to relate to Dante Hicks.  Brought to ...

I wish that I could take credit for this. So much.

This thing is so damn’ cool.

Maybe you should search for it. Oh. Wait.

  You’re welcome.

I pledge to neither shave, trim, chew nor otherwise truncate my beard in any respect for the duration of one (1) full leap year; that is, three hundred and sixty-six (366) days. Herein shall be documented evidence to that effect, such that one (1) photo of my face and beard shall be faithfully uploaded every ...

Sounds: Campfire by Dynamicell Beer can opening by gleepglop Beer bottle opening by YngwieM Slide guitar by UncleSigmund Ambient forest sounds by dobroide Voice by myself It’s just ambience after the first 30 seconds. Call it a revolt.                

    I’m not completely satisfied with this, since there obviously isn’t a picture available of Jim Groom craning his neck quite like (spoiler alert!) [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] is in this picture, so you can see a bit of his monster chin and evil grin. If you still don’t get this ...

No, seriously, I’m supposed to be building up the sets of natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers and complex numbers – and all the operations thereupon – from a few axioms. But I’m not. It’s terribly interesting, don’t get me wrong. But I’m restless this morning and I can’t concentrate on them. I’ve been ...

To Jim Groom and #ds106: I’m sorry. I’m sorry that you have let your power go to your head. I’m sorry that the memory of the transfigured Dr. Oblivion has been betrayed. I’m sorry that DS106 has been hijacked by the very mentality that it had hoped to supplant. I’m sorry that we have to do ...

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That’s all you get. Because I tried to upload it to Soundcloud and they somehow discovered I had some copyrighted content in the audio. Boooooo. Edit: find it here.

I’m in the process of watching the video now and I expect that once finished my response will be a radio broadcast tonight – probably 9PM EST – after which I’ll put it up on Soundcloud and post it here. So if nobody else is taki...

This is the Teenage Angst assignment. Listen to me cry about how hard it was to be 16 without a car. How I did it: I mustered up all my poor wittle feewings from Saturday, June 22, 2002 and rendered them in my god-like voice. Edit: Here’s another rendition of the same recording with music ...

I created this DS106 Radio bumper after I tried and failed to create a story with sound effects I wasn’t happy with. Sources for background sounds: archi_soundscape_space3 by Argitoth radioscan_Blackbox by suonho. Here’s all I did to create it: I grabbed the two sounds off of freesound.org and added the radio sound at the very ...

And here’s what I came up with. Vector graphics – excelsior!

I started out with a grey background and found this clipart picture of a cat and cut it in half to get the split cat effect. I used Courier New for the text, and to achieve the text/border effect I used the Greens option under the GIMP’s gradient tool. I also had fun making this animated ...

The night I got started on DS106 radio, I stayed up til about 4 AM as Stella Meme can attest. Somewhere out there, the Library of Congress has a record of my frustrations in getting it working as vented on the Twitters. I finally figured it out and I’m broadcasting on DS106 radio now. So ...

Because there’s no way I’m going to be able to do a video response tonight: The major theme of today, besides the assignments and the upcoming audio, was commenting. I’m usually simultaneously a comment Nazi and comment whore. I love getting comments and giving comments, but I also have almost a compulsion to comment on ...

I got lazy today and took a screenshot instead of a photograph. In fairness, this is exactly what I think about when I hear the word “deadline”: the end of the summer session and the ever-looming INDEPENDENT STUDY.

I put this entirely together in LibreOffice, using tables, frames and so on to achieve the invoice look. I modeled it after a template I found here, though since the file is a gif, I couldn’t actually use it. It was irritating that there was a lack of good templates for OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice, but no matter. ...

This one was actually really easy. I found Jim Groom’s iconic “Edupunk” photo, opened it with the GIMP and (on Ubuntu Studio, at least) went to “Filters>Artistic>Obama Hope” (seriously). I hardly fiddled with the default values, just set the “Smooth” option a little lower so we could get a bit more clarity in his features. ...