Category Archives: Soapbox

This is where my rants and rages go.

Textbooks Are Wastes

May 5, 2010 – 11:42 am

Of paper and of money. I have yet to encounter an instance where a book I buy this term is actually still used by the same course the next term (regardless of what some WLU professors will tell you). This means there’s pretty much no resale value, and you’re stuck with a $100+ book per [...]

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Irony

April 23, 2010 – 10:48 am

Is when I can design a system and write the code that will make everyone’s lives easier, but I can’t do the same for my own. Is when I can figure out how to solve any problem given to me, but not any of those that I actually care about. Is when I care more [...]

By Carl | Tagged downer | Comments Off

info @ the P.Pole 03.29.10

March 29, 2010 – 11:21 pm

5 frustrating things about work today: not having the necessary privileges to administer my own files/project on the production instance of Ollie (it’s lame that I can’t do something like choose from the full list of mechanisms for submission/revision of forms) arbitrary and unpredictable errors causing some reports I initiated to fail arbitrary and unpredictable [...]

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info @ the P.Pole 02.03.10

February 3, 2010 – 11:01 am

Yesterday, there was a meeting at work where they were explaining to us the etiquette/basics of “blogging”. What is “blogging” you ask? Without being pedantic, it’s what I’ve been doing here for the past several years on my own. It’s nothing new to me, but people “out there” seem to trivialize or write off the [...]

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My Wave

November 29, 2009 – 3:50 pm

[Please visit the original post to listen] Take, if you want a slice, If you want a piece, If it feels alright. Break, if you like the sound, If it gets you up, If it brings you down. Share, if it makes you sleep, If it sets you free, If it helps you breathe. Don’t [...]

By Carl | Also posted in Melodies | Tagged life | Comments Off