Category: school

03/20/09 01:54 - ID#48138

Good at Math

In 1988 I was in fifth grade. For some reason we had to take the california Acheivement Test. I scored higher than 99% of all 5th grade students in the nation in total math. This led to me skipping some math by being in an advanced math class in 6th grade which resulted in no math in 8th grade which led to the end of me as a mathelete ;(

I was kind of surprised because I never think of myself as a math person anymore.

I also was 97% for vocab, 96% for comprehension and reading but only
76% for spelling. Luckily, spelling has not been very important in my life since the computer corrects almost everything.

tinypliny writes at 01:42:46 03/22/09 - Comment #46839: I was never good at Maths. I am still not good at it. :D

metalpeter writes at 10:01:01 03/21/09 - Comment #46816: I was ok in Math better then some (and on the Math team). This is going to sound weird but my higher level stuff was better then my lower level stuff. Devide decimals and percentages, what I'm sorry I don't get it. But yet give me one of those crazy things with () and [] and I was ok. But then yet in chemistry I could never balance those equations, I'm sorry that never made sense, it seemed like the numbers got taken out of thin air or something. It seemed to me the trick to math unlike science is that he didn't want or need to understand how it works. If you tried to you would be lost. What you needed to know was what formula to use when, you had to remember how to do stuff. Know why or how in math wasn't the way to go, or at least not for me.

theli writes at 07:15:04 03/20/09 - Comment #46808: Did reagents in the HS. On SATs I had one math question wrong, 3 verbal questions wrong, and that's with everything answered iirc. And I'm also a college dropout.

Go figure.

drew writes at 04:03:43 03/20/09 - Comment #46805: I was a super nerd all through school, so I had pride about being in the 99 percentile, and even knew what percentile meant.

I haven't used my math skills in some time though, so I've likely lost them.

zobar writes at 03:43:23 03/20/09 - Comment #46804: Hell yeah I was a math geek too. Except instead of getting to skip a year of math, I got to take Course 1 at a girls' high school, but of course in 8th grade I was waay too awkward for that to actually mean anything. And how's this for dorky: I did better on the Regents than all the freshmen, so they had to send my achievement certificate to my elementary school for awards day.

When I got to a larger high school it turned out I wasn't really all that, so although they had to put me in with the older students I ended up in the remedial section. Alls I'm saying is: Anthony Michael Hall in the Breakfast Club.

- Z

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03/20/09 01:32 - ID#48136

Party weekend

I hope this weekend is as fun as last weekend. Someday we are going
to need one of those stair lifts.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/20/09 01:25 - ID#48135

Bike hair

This bike was parked outside of India gate. It is disgusting. I
can't help but think some girl was hit by the bike and it took a chunk
out of her head.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: programming

03/20/09 11:53 - 30ºF - ID#48134

My first Impressions of IE 8

I was testing surebert against IE 8 last night and it wasn't working. Debugging in IE 8 sucks even with the script debugger. The script debugger open in a new window for every error.

Sothe problems which were kind of tricky to identify were:

1. The async argument to an xmlHTTP instances open method cannot be a 0 for false. In all previous versions of IE and in every other browser 0 was acceptable for false. They must be type checking now. This occurs even in comparibiltu mode which makes me wonder what else is not truly compatible.

One of the major feature additions was the inclusion of querySelectorAll. Annoyingly, it return an instance of StaticNodeList instead of just NodeList like Safari and Firefox 3.1 beta. That through me for a loop for a bit.

The inclusion of Element prototypes is pretty sweet. In general it is a huge improvement over IE 6 and 7.

What frustrated me the most is lack of support for the native javascript 1.5 array prototypes forEach, every, some, filter, map. I just don't understand how they left that out. Same thing with standards compliant eventListeners.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/20/09 03:30 - ID#48132

Buffalo CarShare

Buffalo CarShare is open. I saw this on the way to lunch at cafe 59
with (e:jon).

I would like to stop by and find out more but I really don't have much
use for a car. I pretty much just walk back and forth between roswell
and the 24. Still I think the idea is awesome.

While at cafe 59 a scruffy looking French young man begged us for a
ride somewhere. If I had a car and some time I would have taken him
just to find out his story.

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03/19/09 10:43 - ID#48118

My rabbit's field

Is becomming something.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/18/09 09:55 - ID#48116

Happy birthday matthew

I hope this year is filled with tea cups and china.

I got out of work at 9 and we rushed to red lobster for lobster fest.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: programming

03/17/09 09:51 - 47ºF - ID#48094

What a day!

So I was really depressed this morning because for the first time in like years I programmed for like 20 hours and wasn't at a solution for my problem. I tried a lot of different approaches but none of them scaled how I wanted or ended up not having particular feature my system required that I didn't realized until too late. Anyways, today was the total oppposite. Everything went right and I got enough stuff done for a whole week. I attribute it to switching from eclipse to netbeans.

Then today I discovered that netbeans has this awesome collaboration software

built right in that lets you edit code together, chat, and share code snippets, etc with your coworkers over an XMPP openfire server.

So I got openfire setup and it even integrated with AD. Tomorrow should be the beginning of a whole new dev era, lol. Either that or it just means I will get more questions and not get any exercise, lol. It will definately make code review easier.

Here is a

to a video explaining it and here is a simple pic

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Category: holidays

03/15/09 06:09 - ID#48061

Inlaw's butt and St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day. The parade was totally crazy this year. It was so nice out and packed with a million drunk people. For buffaloI find St. Patrick's Day to be an annomoly, because for some reason there were only like 10 black people at it. This is odd compared to any other festival in a city where half the population is black. I guess the black and the irish people just don't get along?

Apprently, everone likes to block our driveway, even the police horses.

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03/14/09 06:31 - ID#48053

I know it's springtime in buffalo

...but isn't it a little early too have this much salespace dedicated
to bubbles. Yes, everything in this picture is a bubble product. If
guess if you need bubbles, go to wegman's!