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I went to the Braun Athletic Center at the California Institute of Technology. As a new JPL employee, they gave me a one-day free pass.
I finally understand how Cosmo works. Of course, there’s still much to learn, but I have successfully changed the feed URIs from /feed/atom/1.0/elliot/calendar to /feed/elliot/calendar. Yay! That was my first goal that I made for myself. So now it should only be a matter of work and time until I get other feed formats implemented 
I was seriously thinking about creating a separate “fun” blog for this, but having multiple blogs just means one won’t get updated. So it goes here, along with everything else. Rely on the “Categories” if you want to see just a certain topic. The fun category, by the way, is “Entertainment”.
I just got a call from the JPL vanpool coordinator. There are 3 other summer interns also looking for a spot. Wow, it would be interesting to meet them and talk with them, see how their first 2 weeks were. I’ve been driving myself because I was staying at Jordan’s condo in Pasadena. But now that Jon’s staying there, vanpooling is a good option. I just need to wake up early enough to make the 6:10 am leaving time. I thought I was too late again today, just barely, but I didn’t try. My car’s clock is 8 minutes fast, but I need that. I should try to get there by 6:00 am, so I should leave at 5:50 am. The earlier the better. There’s always a spot, she says, so I can go anytime. I’ll go tomorrow. Since I drove today, maybe I might as well use my pass for one free day at the Caltech Recreational Facilities.
I was reading about Internet Explorer 7 and that they’ve turned on ClearType by default. I ran through the Windows XP ClearType tuner, and made ClearType look acceptable on this Compaq TFT8030 powered by pixelworks. Apparently it uses the rare BGR subpixel order. Then I read about using double spaces after periods (don’t), and about why periods go inside quotation marks. Apparently, the periods in typewriters could break off. Then I read Quotation Marks: Where Do the Periods and Commas Go–And Why?. There are some interesting ideas there I’ve never heard of before. Notably: Read the rest of this entry »
Following up on my first impressions, here is a list of observations according to beta 2. Read the rest of this entry »
I ordered the DVD and it arrived a couple days ago. I’ve installed it on my Dell Inspiron 300m laptop, and it’s working great. I’m quite impressed. I can see this being a success. Internet Explorer still stinks, but it’s far better than it has ever been before. Microsoft recommends 15 GB free, so I gave it a 15 GB partition (exactly), using an amazingly excellent partitioning program called GParted, which runs from Linux on a Live CD. Very cool. I’ve got to admit.. it’s getting better
After returning from the IVTCF summer conference at Catalina, which I mentioned earlier but never got aruond to writing about, I used the height and weight machine to see what my stats were. The date was 5/20/06, and at 12:14 pm, here’s what it told me: Read the rest of this entry »
I read Harmless Computer Practical Jokes which I read about on the Langalist. Here are my favorites: Read the rest of this entry »
