Archive for February, 2005

Feb 19 2005

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Published by fredward under coffee

I was at the Royce with Alex tonight when this really big drunk guy with a fresh black eye walked up to us and asked if he could join us. Actually, it came out more like, “ey i’m onna sit ere ok ith you two?” So.. I told him it was okay.
The waitress went to [...]

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Feb 08 2005

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Published by fredward under personal

Has anyone read The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum?
Listen to this essay I have to write.. heres the question
“In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose a work of literary merit that confronts the reader or audience with a scene or scenes of violence. In a well-organized essay, analyze the [...]

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Feb 08 2005

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Published by fredward under insomnia, personal

So.. Tired..
I figured I’d get started on a real update before I begin my essay…
I hung out w/ Erin Richardson…err Judd the other day. Wound up driving her Camaro around town for a bit.. ohhh it was fun.
Regional FPS is a week from Thursday.. pretty psyched about it. There are only eight teams who qualified [...]

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Feb 06 2005

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Published by fredward under driving

I don’t know what the hell I did.. but let’s try to keep this up!
Mom woke me up this morning and told me that not only is she going to cosign for my student loans but I get the red cavalier!! as in.. MINE
Let’s hope she doesn’t change her mind again =P

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Feb 05 2005

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Published by fredward under Uncategorized

Just another reason not to privatize Social Security
http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/aaron/20041101.htm

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Feb 04 2005

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Published by fredward under geek

I was reading another article today about how windows still sucks. It took this woman four minutes on an unpatched machine before she was flooded with viruses, adware etc
This isn’t as technical as some of the other articles I’ve read but it has made me interested in figuring out how these things work.. and how [...]

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Feb 04 2005

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Published by fredward under personal

Take the quiz: “Find your IQ (pictures)”

Gifted IQ 125 to 140
You are Gifted! IQ 125 to 140. The US average is 98 and you should feel good. Only 1 out of 50 people have a higher IQ than you. You really should consider taking a real IQ test to measure your near genius. People [...]

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Feb 03 2005

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Published by fredward under misc

Andy introduced me to something that’s pretty damn cool tonight
Tadalist.
It allows you to make todo lists which can be public, private or shared.. It also offers RSS feeds.. between school and home I’m on several different computers throughout the day.. good way to remind myself I have stuff to do. :>

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Feb 01 2005

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Published by fredward under geek

Too much work has gone into bringing this K6-2 back from the dead!
Of course.. It was free but still
Problems
1.) Video Died
2.) Secondary IDE cable bad
3.) CD-ROM = Double Speed
4.) Floppy drive dead
Oh.. and the CMOS battery is dying but that’s a minor problem
Solutions
1.) S3 Trio3d was donated to me :D
2.) Had spare
3.) Replaced w/ 16x [...]

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