April 2008
12 posts
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“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”
– Barack Obama
Tobey Oxholm makes it look easy...
The active recruitment session worked out so well for Tobey Oxholm and Drexel Green. I’m struggling to make it work at all… Too many people, too many meetings.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Therefore, if you want to become an entrepreneur, go to school — just don’t go...”
– Chapter 3, Who Becomes an Entrepreneur, page 47.
ENRG 200 Sequence
After being confronted by several individuals regarding my previous rant on the ENGR 200 sequence’s ubiquitous use of Microsoft Word (here), I would like to point out that the rant was directed at the distribution of documents in MS Word format. In other words, prepare the document in whatever software you choose, but distribute it in an open, portable, standardized format (PDF). Last time I...
Windows Vista Source Code Leaked (geeky) →
“If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there...”
– Will Rogers
“A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to...”
– Mark Twain, “The Disappearance of Literature”
ENGR 200 Sequence
<rant>Am I the only one who thinks that the Engineering Curriculum should not require (nor teach) that we submit things in Microsoft Word? Since when did Drexel University endorse the Microsoft Corporation to such a high degree that reliance upon their proprietary file formats has become commonplace, when an open, portable, and free alternative exists (PDF == Portable Document...
Python on the loose at Google (real) →
Old news, but more amusing than this year’s pranks. From wikipedia:
Another Google-related event that turned out not to be a hoax occurred on April 1, 2007, when employees at Google’s New York City office were alerted that a ball python kept in an engineer’s cubicle had escaped and was on the loose. An internal e-mail acknowledged that “the timing…could not be more...
Google is struggling this year to find amusing... →