Brewster’s Millions
Richard Pryor and John Candy in a classic story retold many times. I had seen parts of this movie on TV or in the background and thought I should give it a try all the way through. Spending lots of money isn’t quite as easy as it should be in this comedy [...]
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Posted 05 June 2006
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Recently I was working on an application for ICRA2006 and I needed to output some data to be read by Excel. This would seem like an easy problem, just output in CSV and Excel can open the text just fine. Unfortunately Excel has one of the most backwards implementations of international character support [...]
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Posted 03 June 2006
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Life has taken a turn for the busy lately, which means of course that this space loses a lot of content. Things have slowed down a bit now. Things which were taking up my time before were being basically one of the only technical staff for ICRA2006 (with one other who helped enormously), [...]
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Posted 01 June 2006
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Never before have I cohabited with another person for a year.
Never before have I visited another family for christmas.
Never before have I yearned for someone while away.
Never before have I been happy for more days together.
Never before have I loved a person like I love Diana.
As of today it has been 2 wonderful years.
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Posted 20 April 2006
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IMDB’s Top 100 Best Movies of All Timegenerate this HTML for your own page at ObeytheFist.com
Rank
Movie
Didn’t See It/Started It/Finished It/Hated It!
1
Godfather, The (1972)
Started It
2
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
Finished It
3
Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
Finished It
5
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
Finished It
6
Casablanca (1942)
Finished It
7
Lord [...]
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Posted 09 March 2006
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I recently bought a Samsung ML-2010, which is a nice laser printer for home use, and tried to set it up on Debian, only to discover that Samsung wasn’t hip to my architecture, namely amd64/x86_64. It’s no matter, their printer drivers still work, but you have to hack around a bunch of their checks. [...]
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Posted 23 February 2006
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A couple weeks ago I was going to lunch and met up with one of my friends who I hadn’t seen in a while. I had to wait for her to finish her TAing job, in the same lab that I once taught in. I was surprised at my reaction - I wanted [...]
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Posted 18 February 2006
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Throughout the last couple of years, I’ve had some bad decisions. I decided to start using my credit to work for me, and to buy things which I couldn’t afford. Partly this was because I had a horrible ex, who I thought I should do things for, and partly because of just living [...]
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Posted 17 February 2006
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So this weekend is Trivia weekend, which means that my clock gets inverted for a couple days at least, as I tend to be on the “night team”. Right now it’s the beginning of hour 40, of which I’ve been around for about half. We just found out we’re ahead of the [...]
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Posted 12 February 2006
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Okay, something bugs me, and it’s somewhat irrational, and somewhat rational. I totally hate really long URLs needed to “verify” that the sign-up is valid. There are more than one type of these, sometimes they are required to continue into the site, sometime just for extra features, but they are more often that [...]
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Posted 09 February 2006
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