Phoenix Touches Down on Martian Soil May 28, 2008

I hope they find water.
NASA Link
 

Putting Every Other Quarter to Shame May 18, 2008

Heck yes.

 

Stain Removal May 14, 2008

I discovered a large bleach-white stain on my carpet yesterday. I don’t know how it got there, but I knew I had to remove it somehow to avoid the hefty $25 fine. At first I tried vodka, which did little to remove the actual stain, but it did make me care about it less. Then, [...]

First Day on the Job May 13, 2008

I *saw* — first hand — the servers that run NAU. I stood amid entire rows of them, stacked one on top of the other, towering above my head, just humming with electricity. The room that hampers them has industrial strength air conditioning just to stop the computer equipment from melting.
 

Pythonic Self May 1, 2008

Python is a great language, but one of its problems is that every parameter passed into an __init__ method must be manually assigned to an instance variable, like this:
class Microsoft
  def __init__(self, param):
    self.param = param
and it’s an annoying waste of time. To fix this, I have written a short Python script that goes through a [...]