Hidden In the Grass

Apparently 404.gov links to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Funny in my opinion given the nerdy meaning of the number 404. I assume that 404.gov exists due to Section 404 of SOX, but its still amusing.

My favorite agency has provided a handy website to give you estimated wait times at the airport given the location, date, and time. Now I know for my flight this Saturday the average wait is around 5 minutes. Nice! Security Checkpoint Wait Times via Lifehacker.

Just finished watching the movie Crash. It just hurt to watch it, not because it sucked but because the people it were just suffering through thier lives. Since they suffer they take out the pain they have on the world around them, manifested in racism, anger, frustration, drugs, and violence. The effects of this all [...]

I would love to do this once to some of the more exploitive home users who ask for help a lot.

Vector analysis exam is over, my on-campus work obligations are fulfilled. I am complete. Time to move home!

Grades are arriving, so far so good. My first final I ended up with a B+ in the course(Math of Finance). My Data Communication Network Devices course was an A(as expected). The irony is all the course leading up to this one I got C’s in. Why? because the classes sucked, the material was irrelevant [...]

Senate was unable to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act and I’m pretty happy about that. I really do not see the benifits in trading significant amounts of privacy so that the government can try to stop terrorists. Why? It will not work, any intelligent human can thwart any number of security measures so by giving away [...]

One would call this an experimental post. Right now I am typing this out on my Blackberry while in math class. We just spent around 48 minutes debating how to solve an annuity problem. I still don’t think my professor ever wrote the right anwser on the board. Now that I have mentally checked out [...]

This post marks a transition from the days of LiveJournal to a new WordPress blog that I will host myself. I’ve been fighting the idea of switching to my own blog system for a long time because of the easy of use that LiveJournal offers. This changed when I did some research to setup Andrea’s [...]