Dave Kellam

One issue of the paper has been finished for the semester. I was sick feeling, so it wasn’t as much fun as usual. We got out of there around 4:30-5:00 with only one minor fuckup that got fixed in the morning. A lot of the overtime was due to the lack of nero and windows insistance that the files had to be copied to a local directory. I wouldn’t have wanted to burn a coaster and waste $0.50 if the server accident;y went down. Or the other 15 or 20 minutes that I waited for shit to load across a network. Blargh, stupid wizards. I slept, got up and went to some class. School time again.

Some links:
All my fonts – someone took the time to make a graphical display of fonts by myself or with brian years ago. Something I’ve been meaning to do but never got around to.
Vivisimo Clustering – “automatic categorization and meta-search software” an interesting alternative to google.

Pauly-boy ate some brownies:

In a yearend interview Thursday with CPAC, the parliamentary public affairs channel, Martin confided he’d never smoked pot but said his wife Sheila once made some brownies “and I must say they had a strange taste.”

That’s right, they had a strange ‘taste’ (article).

Hello all, back from the voyage to Quebec City, it was a lot of fun and not as cold as I expected it to be. I will have some photos to add to the gallery at some point, but I’m unable to post them. I discovered that the Internet is still not working at my house. And no one is picking up the phone at jerk housemate’s house. Maybe he went for a surprise vacation out of the county or something.

Bad discoveries of the day: I’m going to have to take six courses next semester to make up for the one I dropped last semester, at least I won’t be editing the paper in the last half of March, so it should be nice and manageable. How comes science students need to take 20.0 credits and arts only need to take 19.0? Oh, are degress are just as valuable they say. Well, mine’s worth at least a grand more. Unless they’re just making room for at least two course failures. I’m not bitter. Discovery number two: spotty swollen throat. Cause: bacteria or virus. Bacteria would be nice, because the penicillin I got should kill it and make me better. I had a virus with the mono back in the summer and it meant my throat just kept swelling and I eventually needed an anti-inflamatory.

I got back to Kingston a day or two ago, but haven’t been able to access the internet. My housemate has the router and modem in his room and decided to lock the door before he left. The problem is that he decided to unplug the router before he left, which meant no internet access for me. Jerk.

Now I’m off to Quebec City over new years, so I won’t be back online for awhile. I’ll get back and have a day or so of relax time and then Golden Words needs to be edited. That means your staffers. Be there on Sunday, the fourth, or behold the wrath of a thousand frogs eating spaghetti. Hope you understand — new layout software, means it’s going to be interesting. And classes start soon too. Enjoy the rest of the holdidays.

Art Renewal Centre, the place to find high-res photos of paintings and such (via filmmaker). And 100% Muon Proof, the place to find low-res animated gifs of Donald Rumsfeld scratchin’.

Christmas was allegedly held yesterday and I received some objects. A bunch of clothes, a stocking containing large quantities of candy and oral hygiene products, and a shiny new digital camera, more details will be reported as the story unfolds.

I’ve been spending time in front of the computer but a lot of it has been trying to write an application to upload screencaptures to the website. I think I bit off a bit more than I could chew to start off with though. I decided to start off with an applescript program rather than diving into objective c, although I doubt it would have mattered much. I have the initial interface created, and it kind of works, i’m just having trouble getting it to read the values out of the text fields. I think my problems lie more in trying to make it so the computer saves all the preferences before I made sure everything actually worked.

Beyond that, there’s isn’t anything of much importance to mention. I’ve been at home, I’ve been sleeping a lot. They have good food here, that’s a plus. I’ve spent time in malls trying to get some shopping done too, that can be a trying experience around this time of year.