Archive for May, 2004
The Lunchtime Seminar for today was entitled “The Value of Planning”. The flyer for this learning opportunity read, in part, “The ability to plan a project or program early provides increased likelihood of success.” The flyer was sent to us in email form. Today. An hour before the class started. Perhaps they should have attended [...]
From the last episode of Survivor: “When the audience speaks, so to speak, they are speaking…” That guy is brilliant.
Due to Microsoft Entourage’s poor implementation of a script I wrote, I ended up with over 200 Categories named “Untitled”. Since the GUI will only let you delete one category at a time, I came up with an AppleScript solution: tell application “Microsoft Entourage” set theCategories to every category repeat with theCat in theCategories if [...]
The estimates for the disruption to the city of Boston during the Democratic National Convention have just been updated again: * A small road called the “Central Artery” can’t be all that important, and will be shut down at 4pm each evening, about an hour into rush hour and three hours before the convention is [...]
Some license plates are cute, like “WNEPOOH” (to go with TI2GR). )Or the one that says “THANKU”. “URWLCM” Some just make me questions what they were thinking. Like “WLDTHNG” on a Volvo. Or “RATFINK”. Even if your nickname was “AMNDUH”, why would you put it on a license plate? I am still waiting for the [...]
According to a radio report, Princeton is going to start limiting the number of “A” grades that can be awarded per class–to 35%. The student body president is up in arms because apparently this would be a drop from the current 46%. I’m guessing that statistics is not a requirement for any of these college [...]