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Important Degree Candidate Information
From: UT Registrar’s Office To: Chris Leonard Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:03pm Subject: Important Degree Candidate Information AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO SPRING 2009 DEGREE CANDIDATES Our records indicate that you are a degree candidate for graduation at the conclusion of this semester. Please review the following information that appears on your record and [...]
openSUSE
Last month I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop, and it worked great for me. Better than expected, by a decent margin. I don’t like the orange theme. Heresy, I know. I LOVE orange, burnt orange is one of my favorite colors. But the no matter what I tried, I could not get Gnome to [...]
Sleep
A few weeks ago I wrote about my pinched nerve, and even a subsequent trip to the doctor. Sigh, the pain has continued. During the day I’m moving around enough that its annoying but tolerable. Unfortunately, the most uncomfortable position is laying down. By now you can see the direction this is heading. Its difficult [...]
The Green Letters
One of my coworkers, Mark Simoneau, was in a band called the Green Letters for a few years, but they broke up a year and a half ago. Liz and I also know the lead singer (Tom Bubb) and his family. Tom’s sister Sarah was Liz’ room mate for a few years. And over the [...]
Pinched Nerve
Early Friday morning I was laying in bed, in that kind of half asleep, half awake state. I moved to stretch out my arms over my head, just like I’ve done a million times before. Before I even got my arms stretched straight, a surge of pain shot up from my shoulder to my hand [...]
Bainbridge
We’re in Washington this weekend to celebrate marriage with our friends Joe & Blythe. We flew into Seattle on Thursday morning, and we are having a great time. When we arrived we went straight to the Pike Place Market. We got lunch at a deli that overlooks the bay, then walked through the market to [...]
Correction, Spurs By 11
They did it. The Hornets came out strong. In fact, they held the lead until the third quarter. Once the Spurs took the lead the Hornets never recovered, it looked like they ran out of steam. We looked like a playoff team, everyone on the floor was contributing. We had five players earning double digit [...]
Spurs By 4
Tonight is game 3 between the Spurs and Hornets. In the last series with the Suns we began with a hard won overtime victory, and that set the tone for the series. In round two, the first two games have been in New Orleans, and while we’ve had some strong performances (Bowen’s run of three-pointers [...]
Triathlete
I’m in Tempe this weekend to cheer for my girlfriend and our good friend Joe (now fully recovered from last year’s accident) as they compete in Ironman Arizona. The event is on Sunday, but we all arrived early to find everything without being rushed. I’ve never been to Phoenix or Tempe before but it seems [...]
Introducing Maximus
For the past few months The Green Dragon (my 1991 Honda Civic hatchback) has been running worse and worse. It started with running hot (not overheating though) while in traffic. Next was difficulty starting. I’d have to crank it for ~5 mins before anything happened. Right about the time that I’d get angry enough to [...]