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Archive for March, 2005

People tell us New Hampshire will be a bit chillier than Georgia. One of our professors gave us a temperature conversion chart to help us out. I’ll retype it here for your amusement:
60 F Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. New Englanders sunbathe.
50 F, Floridians turn on the heat. New Englanders plant gardens.
40 F, English […]

Cake Baking Madness: Day 1

Anna and Lindsey were hired by the Chemistry department to bake and decorate a cake for Dr. McRae’s retirement. On the first day, the task was to test (yummy!) and bake cakes. After trying small amounts of a number of different cake recipes, it was decided that the tiers would consist of chocolate […]

More Firefox Extension Madness

Some more extensions have been brought to my attention.
Eric uses the Flashblock extension. If you don’t want to see flash ads but do want to see flash sometimes, this will work better for you than adblocking *.swf. According to the summary you can click on the flash movie if you do want to […]

Minor Problem Fixed

Just a quick note to anyone who tried to post a comment since the upgrade, some of the anti-spam changes that were made prevented the posting of comments completely. On the bright side, those bots who have been trying to comment spam the site have been wasting their time! On the down side, […]

Vox Clamantis in Deserto

Well, we have finally made a decision. We will be continuing our studies at Dartmouth. For those not familiar with Dartmouth, here’s the quick blurb from the Wikipedia entry:
Dartmouth College is a private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1769, it is the ninth-oldest college […]

Useful Firefox Extensions

Occasionally I look through the Firefox extensions top 5 lists seeking useful extensions. Finally, I decided that I’d go through every extension available to find those which are useful but not in the top lists.
Here are a number of the Firefox extensions that I have found useful:

Adblock - Allows the user to filter out […]

Ponies Repeat!

The Balonie Ponies have won their second intramural basketball championship in a row. It was an entertaining season, and it is always nice to finish up things with a win.
On another note, we are still looking at graduate schools, though we have managed to narrow the field some. We started with […]