Michigan - State Government Officially Shuts Down
Michigan: Giving Kentucky a run for ‘National Black Sheep’ since 2007.
Michigan - State Government Officially Shuts Down
After an unfortunate series of events, my primary PC is dead. It was the first custom computer I ever put together. That was 5-and-a-half years ago. Over the years I’ve upgraded almost everything in it; some things more than once. It’s been a great learning oppertunity.
I keep external backups of everything that’s of any real importance, but I lost at least one 150g drive full of media. I was too disheartended to check the other drive tonight.
Right now I’m surfing from an eMachines i433 running Win98. It had IE5 installed when I plugged it in, but I had to upgrade to 6 to get anything except the google homepage working properly. I don’t remember where I got this PC from or why I thought there would be anything in it worth stripping, but here it is, saving the day.
I’m going to order a new computer tomorrow. Probably won’t get here till Monday or Tuesday. Looks like me and my eMachine will be enjoying a long weekend together.
Entrepreneur magazine names MSU among top 10 universities for fostering entrepreneurship
Eight weeks ago I wouldn’t have believed this.
Edit- You could also read this as: When your state has the highest unemployment rate in the country, a lot of people start calling themselves self-employed entrepreneurs.
The Space Between
Grape fruit juice and grapefruit juice and two drastically different things. Lesson learned.
Whenever a job listing says, “High school diploma required,” I always wonder exactly what skills they think they’re guaranteeing with that disclaimer.
If I’m to believe iTunes, these were my top 20 artists played last week (with top song played). I’m sort of proud that the theme from Jurassic Park made the cut.
After I finished Hungry For A Month, I tried my hand at drawing a cartoon every day for a month. I called it Cartoonist For A Month (original, I know) and never got a chance to finish the project because some of the things I drew really upset some people.
This is one of my favorites. Additionally, this project taught me that I really can’t draw very well.
Do they even have Taco Bell Express’s anymore?
Project: reNOTEcontrol
This was a project I did with Rob McFadden over this summer. We got it to the point that it more or less works, but haven’t taken much past that.
From the site:
reNOTEcontrol is a bookmarklet application that allows you to highlight any text on a page and then store that text in a “notebook” with a single click. There is nothing to download, nothing to install and registration takes less than 10 seconds.
It’s like Google Notebook, but you know, without all the overhead and memory leaks. Anyway, give it a try if you’re doing some research on the Internet or something.
Just saw this badass cruising down the road.
Hungry For A Month
Over the past two months I’ve been collecting many of my projects into one place for easy browsing. It’s not quite ready to go, but I’m going to post a few of them here as well.
This is from when I ate for $1/day back in November of 2006. I’m probably not the first person to do something like it (although nobody’s ever pointed out an earlier version of it), but I do know it’s been copied as a publicity stunt at least a dozen times since (most recently to promote a Credit Union I think… I don’t understand the connection either).
