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If you’ve never heard of the website ratemyprofessors.com, it’s exactly what it sounds like — a forum where students can create rankings of their favorite professors, with comments. The site pulls all of that together in a pretty nice fashion.
Why do I care, since I’ve gradumacated and all that? Because my dad [...]

A friend of mine wanted some photos to use for a short film he’s working on — shots of his character, to be used in pictures as props and what not. So I went and did that last night.
Good experience, actually working with a live model, where the point of the whole [...]

Here at work, we write code in a programming language called Python. Since there is more than one person writing code in this language, we have a standard of conventions to follow — things like “always put a space after a comma in a list of function variables”, etc.
Well, one of the [...]

6:07 AM
Landline rings. The landline NEVER rings, much less at some ungodly hour like 6:17 AM. Needless to say, I don’t answer it, and don’t actually hear it until the last ring. Answering machine picks up, gets dial tone.
6:17 AM
Landline rings. Same deal, except this time I’m still not-asleep-enough that I [...]

OK, OK… before I hear it from the lot of you, I know I SAID that I was going to stay out of my daily news reads. And I have (aside from the exceptions mentioned previously). But things arriving in my emailbox are a different matter. And I just received a pretty [...]