Things that might be decidedly odd…

Revived

My blog has been revived. Stay tuned for more…

Transcript Mania

So, it seems that my transcripts from Saarbrücken for fellowship applications have somehow gotten lost in the mail. They were sent on Nov 19, but still haven’t arrived (here or in Washington). Arg! Fortunately, the NSF stuff doesn’t need to be postmarked until Friday, so the lady over there is going to try sending some new copies. So frustrating, but soon it will be over (one way or another).

In other news, this week officially sucks. I hate the end of the semester and all the franticness it entails. I spent some time on my take home final for algorithms. I think I have solutions (more or less) to 3 of the 5 problems. For the other two, I’m still drawing somewhat of a blank though. It’s not due until Friday, but I have an actual final exam in Architecture that day as well. I’m virtually just counting down the days until Dec 21, when I leave for Christmas. Actually, because of how my plane ticket worked out, I should be done with work by Dec 15th or so, leaving me a nice week in there to get some research work done.

Guglhupf

It seems that there’s a German bakery in Durham called “Guglhupf”. They sell Mischbrot, Brötschen, and authentic Brezeln! I have to go check this out sometime soon. They even have a review from Die Zeit.

November is Dead to Me

So, ya I just realized I haven’t written for all of November…

In essence, Laibach was fun, I was busy with school, and Ted found my blog.

Today, Ted Rall had an interesting editorial. I’ve been waiting for so long for somebody to say what he says in that column.

Damn Spammers

Arg… Kendra was right: I got spammed. Well, I did manage to figure out how to connect directly to the MySQL database and delete the necessary rows from the necessary tables. Interesting stuff:

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%poker%";
Query OK, 854 rows affected (0.08 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%gambling%";
Query OK, 36 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%roulette%";
Query OK, 36 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%casino%";
Query OK, 169 rows affected (0.06 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%texas%";
Query OK, 176 rows affected (0.06 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%online%";
Query OK, 16 rows affected (0.04 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%debt%";
Query OK, 7 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%phentermine%";
Query OK, 6 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%blackjack%";
Query OK, 24 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%wsop%";
Query OK, 22 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%WPT%";
Query OK, 19 rows affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> delete from wp_comments where comment_author like "%forex%";
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.05 sec)