The Nerdiography

On a mission

2005-02-05T18:27:52Z

Every year I've been to college, the campus ministries have planned a "Mission Trip". Now for those of you who havn't heard of mission trips, it is a trip where people minister to a community. To minister means to help or assist in some way in the name of God.

Anyway, I have never been able to go onto one of these mission trips. At first it was mostly due to finacial causes. After I got married, it was because my job held me back. This year, however, I get to go. All my bills are prepaid, my boss let me off work for 8 days, my sister will watch my cat. It's going to be great! God truely made a way for me this year! :)

Mutated Monkey?

2005-01-13T05:36:00Z

I was disappointed to find out that in order to get my computer networking minor, I had to take Biology. Doesn't make much sense does it? Well the problem comes from the fact that I started college 5 years ago before the networking minor existed. Back then I was required to take two science courses of different kinds. I took Physics, Astronomy, and Earth Science. Later, they changed the requirements to force all students to take a biology course. This normally would not have affected me except that if I want to get the new Networking minor, I have to conform to the new requierments. So now I'm stuck taking Biology.

I get to learn about fun things such as evolution. I'm a computer science major. To me evolution is the theory in which life came about through a brute force algorithm. Hmmm... Basically the same theory that states that if we had an infinite amount of monkeys type for an infinite amount of time, we'd eventually get all of Shakespeare's works. Sounds great.

It's funny how people will get emotional and fight for their religion of believing in a cosmic accident.

Optimized for Internet Exploder

2005-01-11T13:26:27Z

The whole "optimizing thing for IE" has frustrated me. There are very few websites that are truly optimized for IE except that they have a browser check and if you're using the wrong one you'll know. A good example is eCollege. It is a service used by my University. They claim that it only works with IE or Netscape or Safari. So I complain. They then treat me as if I don't know what I'm talking about.

Example:

"Why do you interupt my eCollege experience with all of these errors when I use Firefox?"

"Please upgrade to IE 5.5 or higher."

"What downgrade to IE 5.5? IE isn't even for Linux."

"We don't support Linux. Didn't you read the requirements?"

"I know, but your site works perfectly fine in Firefox . Why not remove the lines of code that throws errors if it catches the user using a different browser other than IE."

"Nobody uses Firefox. See for yourself with these links"

"Okay, but your first webpage you sent me specifically says that they only show stats for IE or Netscape. The other one is from the time before Christ. The third one shows that 22% of users using Firefox. It's the stat that says 'Gekko based browsers (eg Firebird/Firefox)'.

"Please upgrade to IE 5.5"

"What!? I thought we already been through this. Just eliminate 2 lines of code that stop me from using Firefox. Are you being paid by MS?"

"We support a variety of browsers and support people's choice to choose. You can use Netscape or for Mac users, Safari."

"But the site looks worse with Netscape. And Safari is just Konqueror with a different name. And it doesn't work well at all in Konqueror either."

"Please upgrade to IE 5.5"

Slip 'n Slide

2005-01-11T06:40:13Z

Today was a terrible day to go driving. The entire town was covered in a film of ice. Good thing I fixed my car's heater. It cost half of what I paid for the car to get it fixed!

I had to go to work today. On the street, I felt like I was playing a cross between Mario Kart and Crazy Taxi. My car even did one of those "Crazy Drifts"! It was fun after I figured out that everything was alright.

Anywho, I've got C++ in the morning. Must go to bed.

Peace,

JT

Rebuttle to "How to tell a 'Mod' is a 'Hoax'"

2005-01-09T05:20:06Z

Here's my step by step rebuttle on this topic that is found on this page!

First darkain discusses that the screenshots show the game in shades of yellow. He makes a convincing agument except that one can easily change the colors to that palette on the GBA just like you can on the GBC. Try it! At the Nintendo screen press Up, Down, Left, or Right. Pretty cool, eh? Now try holding A or B and doing that! Presto!

Okay, the next agument was the sticker. He's absolutly incorrect. My wife took her DS apart and did not have to remove the sticker.

I'm not sure what he was trying to say about the whole circuit board thing. Didn't make sense to me. i'm not very goode at decoding mesages lik this.