Archive for January 25th, 2006

Essential tools for the material world

My friend John S. received his TV stand earlier today. I went to his dorm room to watch him assemble it. It used four round-head bolts with four locknuts. Joe L. tried to help him screw them on, but they couldn’t do it by hand. This was due to the rubber/plastic layer in the bolt that locks it on. They were also asking which direction it should go on. I said it shouldn’t matter — something that I learned while building the Walnut solar car last summer.

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You might be a CS (or CECS) major if…

I got this from an Upsilon Pi Epsilon website. Goes on a tshirt.

You might be a CS (or CECS) major if…

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WordPress Plugins

I want to try writing a WordPress plugin. Anyone have any ideas?