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Interesting story of the day: the web director of the Badger Herald got stranded in Milwaukee today and couldn’t get back to Madison until about 11 PM. I’m sure he appreciates me telling all my readers about this.

 

Quote of the Day

This conversation took place via IRC with a friend who goes by the name “Twinkie” who was watching some of my videos on YouTube.

After linking to an uninteresting video, he says, “This video is boring.”

I reply, “That video wasn’t supposed to be interesting.”

A few minutes later, he links to another one of my uninteresting videos and says, “This one’s boring too.”

I reply, “That video wasn’t supposed to be interesting either.”

After a few more minutes, he links to yet again another one of my uninteresting videos and says, “Boring.”

I reply, “Why are you so good at picking out my uninteresting videos? Watch some of my sit-down vlogs where I tell stories.”

Once again, he links to another one of my videos, and says, “Still boring.”

I reply, “That one wasn’t supposed to be interesting either.”

He replies, “OMG then just label your videos ‘worth watching’ or ‘not worth watching’!”

 

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MySQL Table vs. Dinner Table

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Quote of the Day

I came across this quote while I was working on some MySQL stuff for the Badger Herald:

“A MySQL table is completely different than the normal table that you eat dinner on.”

Thanks for clarifying that, like it wasn’t obvious.

http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/mysqltables.php

 

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Window Reflection

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Picture of the Day

(+49) 694-0059

I just got a phone call from a number with an area code that started with a plus sign.

I did not know that was possible.

(via Flickr @ http://flic.kr/p/8VbtUg)

 

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

#DS371: Find or make a reflection in a window today and shoot through it to create a layered compo­sition.

 

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Buzzing Refrigerator

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I’m writing this blog post from the Computer Sciences & Statistics building at my university because THERE’S THIS ANNOYING BUZZING SOUND COMING FROM BEHIND MY REFRIGERATOR AND I CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS.

Hey, at least it’s peaceful and quiet in this building during the weekends.

I have no idea how I’m going to fall asleep tonight, though.

 

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

#DS370: Tungsten light can often create a warming effect, depending on your white balance. Use tung­sten light in a photo today.

I’ve never used the tungsten light setting on my camera before, but apparently it’s there to turn black keyboards into blue keyboards.

 

What I’m Watching

It’s been a while since this section has made its last appearance, primarily because I haven’t really had the time to watch that many movies. When I do get the chance to watch a movie, I end up not having time to add this section into my blog post for that day. I decided to catch up today and write about a movie I watched closer to the beginning of November, The Social Network.

The Social Network, a movie sometimes known as the “Facebook movie,” is a movie about how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg came up with the idea of Facebook and how he carried it out for it to become a revolutionary website like it is today. There was a lot of talk about how good the movie was, and I had intended to watch it ever since it came out. The tipping point, however odd, was that I watched it for a Spanish project – we had to write a book or movie review on a work related to our major. My major being computer science, The Social Network fulfilled that requirement nicely.

Many of us know that Facebook started out as a social networking site for Harvard students, and ended up spreading throughout colleges before hitting high school students and adults all over the world. What many of us don’t know is that Facebook has a complicated history behind it involving conflicts, lawsuits, and greed. The Social Network follows Mark Zuckerburg as he struggles through all these problems, some with his close friends, in order to come out on top.

Seeing as a majority of us (not including myself) love to use Facebook for hours upon hours every day, I think it’s well worth the time to watch this movie to find out how exactly this apparently addictive website came to be. The storyline appears to be mostly factual, (I’m saying mostly instead of entirely because there were probably some comedic segments included that are irrelevant to the plot,) as for every fact that I checked against online sources (like Wikipedia), all the information matched up.

 

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That calculus exam was tragic.

We got a sheet with the solutions to all the problems immediately after we submitted the exam, and I don’t think I got a single final answer correct…

 

Quote of the Day

This came from a Jackie Chan Adventures episode that I watched on YouTube. The cartoon is hilarious, and I’m glad they uploaded the episodes to YouTube so I could relive my childhood.

At the end of the episode, they always read a question to Jackie Chan that was originally asked by a child viewer, and he answers the question. One of the questions was, “have you ever turned down doing a stunt?” Jackie’s response was along the lines of:

“Oh, if they tell me do crazy thing like jump to building top, jump off building, slide down pole, jump in car, then yes, I do it, absolutely. But if they tell me jump over Grand Canyon, no way! I can’t do.”

 

Picture of the Day

Gnone is the New Gnome

Gnone is the New Gnome

I actually have no idea what a gnone is, but I was bored while waiting for the bus at the bus stop, saw this sticker on a One Way sign, and took a picture of it.

(via Flickr @ http://flic.kr/p/8UhwkH)

 

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(As you can clearly see, this is a very text-heavy and possibly boring blog post. Don’t read it if you have a life.)

I just realized that it’s been a week since I last posted in my blog and ten days since I’ve made a video. I actually intended to post a video on Tuesday, November 8, 2010, which was a day after my most recent video, but I ended up not having enough time on that day. I kept procrastinating until I ended up forgetting about it for a while. The topic of the video was slightly time-based as well – it was a story about daylight savings time. I still want to film and post the video, but I’m not sure when I’ll have enough time to do it.

The main reason I’ve been overly absent online for the past week is because of an upcoming calculus exam. I fell behind on the stuff we were learning, and eventually, I fell so far back that it was hard to seize opportunities to catch up. I have an exam this coming Thursday, and I’m still behind – I’ve been trying to learn calculus like crazy this past week, but it hasn’t been working very well. I’m going to continue this failing effort until Thursday before the exam to try to get as high of a score as possible on the exam, because, even though they’re both horrible, a C is still better than a D.

I’m expecting to be more available website-wise after this Friday. I’ll be spending most of late Thursday night and Friday doing a programming assignment for computer science, which, with respect to the amount of time we were given to do it, I am also behind on. Once I get that out of the way, the only major thing I have left before my Thanksgiving recess is a Spanish exam, but those tend to work out well even without extreme intensive studying. I should also catch up on my reading for botany, which hasn’t gotten any easier – if you happen to remember (or happen to have even seen) the picture of my botany binder from a while back, my binder now is about twice as thick as shown in the picture. I’ll eventually post another picture of how much my binder has grown.

I also noticed that I’m getting really bad at tweeting when I’m posting new blog posts, and I think I’m losing a handful of views on each of my blog posts because of that. I’ll try to remember more often.

 

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