Wow… what a mind job.

by | Feb 7, 2002 | Imported Entry

Wow… what a mind job. I’ve made some SERIOUS headway on a site design. It’s actually going to be nothing like what I posted before. It’s slick, it’s “techie” looking, for heaven’s sake it’s even ORANGE! Yup, orange. I don’t really like orange that much, but combined with the right shades of gray it can look mighty bad ass. It’s almost ready folks. It’s really close… so close I can taste it. I’m 90% done with the navigation layout, just some minor tweaks in the spacing department. It’ll be ready if I ever want to make it into a Flash layout. I’ve marked off where I want the “content” to go. I’ve done the table layouts. It’s all ready to rock. Another day or two. Problem here will be switching over the blogger code, but that shouldn’t take more than an afternoon. This time the site will incorporate my portfolio as well, which is sort of a first for me. I’ve tried it before but always hated the layouts so I never felt comfortable showing my work if I couldn’t even make a layout work. But not this time. The portfolio section is the part that’s required for class, but the way I figure it, it doesn’t really make any sense to have a cool layout and never show it to the world… so I’m going beyond the scope of the assignment and redoing my entire site as well. I was going to give you guys a peak… but I think I’ll make it a surprise instead. Hehehe.

Oh, I also got my Advisment situation taken care of. I sent my adviser an email and this is what I got back…

“Matthew,

I appreciate your concerns, and your proposal is the exact course of action we take with students in your situation. You will be able to register on Friday.

As for already having seen an adviser this year, Which adviser did you see? The last record I have of you receiving advisement from Harris Hall was Fall 2000, however, if there has been an oversight you would not be required to come in again until next Fall.

As for your appointment next Monday, I’ll leave that up to you. You can come in if you’d like or you can wait until you receive another advisement reminder letter next fall…either way is fine. If you want to wait until next fall, either email or call me at ***-**** to cancel the appointment.

Thanks and have a great week,

Quin”

rawk. i sleep now. :-p

“People! I think it’s time

by | Feb 6, 2002 | Imported Entry

“People! I think it’s time to revive a long standing tradition we seem to have forgotten. Something we use to do every Saturday night as a matter of principle…”

I’m of course talking about a CODE FEST! Yup, that’s right. It’s time for a good, ol’fashion, EXPI old skool style, code fest! What am I talking about? I’m talking about drinking WAY to much caffine, staying up until 4, slaving over hot HTML code until the screen is blurry and you’re writing code simply out of instinct. Why now? Because I want to enjoy my weekend and if I have this project looming over my head I won’t be able to do that. This is a major mid-term project and I’d like to pull it off with such inprecidented style that it makes heads spin. I don’t know whether it will be tonight, tomorrow night, or one night this weekend. But I promise you this: There’s will be a new design here by Monday morning. AND, it will rock.

That is all.

I found a little blurb

by | Feb 6, 2002 | Imported Entry

I found a little blurb on speedguide.net. Maybe this is why we can’t get over 2k/sec when all three of us are online.

@Home to Comcast transitions are happening:

… and overall the people are not very happy. It seems the new caps, both up and down have people getting upset- including the technicians themselves.

Personally, my transition occurs this Saturday. Up until now, I have been uncapped- it will be a rough transition to move to their new 1.5mbps down standard… especially since I will be paying the same amount for the service.

Damn strait. I shouldn’t pay $90 a month for service that sucks. ($35 for tv, $40 for modem and the $5 for each IP). What the fuck?!?! Somehow I’m guess that 1.5mbps is total and not per IP. If it was then I would at least me able to get a web page in more than a minute. This is rediculous. Just because there’s no alternative doesn’t mean that they can bitch-fuck consumers anyway they please.

What cock-gobblers! SCAD can stuck

by | Feb 5, 2002 | Imported Entry

What cock-gobblers! SCAD can stuck my nuts. I called the Acedemic Advising office three days ago, and today they finally got back to me. They told me the earliest I could see my advisor was next Monday. Now, bear in mind that I register for classes on Friday. I got a nice little letter in the mail saying I wouldn’t be able to register if I didn’t see these people first… well, don’t you think it would be a good idea for my advisor to perhaps schedule people before they need to register. I was told he’s “booked solid” and that I should have called earlier. Well, I did. But since these asshole don’t work weekends, I got my called returned today. FUCK!

*a fictional conversation with an advisor*

Matt: “Good afternoon sir, I’m told you needed to speak to me before I could register”.
Adv: “Yes, we like to talk to everyone with 105 credit hours so we can make sure they’re on track to graduate.”
Matt: “I understand, but I already know the classes I needed to take.”
Adv: “Oh, really?”
Matt: “Yes, and since I had to come see you first, I didn’t get into them.”
Adv: “Well, you should have made an appointment earlier.”
Matt: “I shouldn’t have needed an appointment in the first place.”
Adv: “Pardon?”
Matt: “See if you can wrap your brain around this one… I, a junior, only need 12 classes to graduate. Those 12 classes are hard to get into because they’re what everyone needs to graduate. Because you wanted to make sure I could graduate, you’ve made me miss my opportunity to get into those classes. Now, because you’re trying to help me, you’ve completely screwed me over and now I’ll graduate late. I shouldn’t have needed to come and see you, I know what classes I needed, I was all set with my schedule because someone helped me out last quarter. But apparently that wasn’t good enough for you people and I had to come talk to you again. Now, because you wanted to make sure I graduated on time, I’ll graduate late. You caused the exact problem you were trying to prevent. I bet that makes you feel all warm and tingly inside, doesn’t it? Now, release the god-damn hold on my account so I can go home and try to repair some of the damage you assholes did.”

Arg. I hate SCAD. Wait, I take that back. I hate anything related to SCAD administration. The classes are good, the teachers are good. There’s not enough parking, but that’s not really their fault. Whatever.

DAMN THE MAN