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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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22 February 2001 - 7:32 pm
I feel out of touch with the "pop" music scene. I don't listen to the radio, and the videos aired by MTV don't greatly appeal to me. In order to overcome my lack of knowledge about the current music scene, I've taken out a subscription to Rolling Stone magazine. So now the next step is to start listening to some new bands. Do you have any recommendations?
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 22 February 2001 at 7:32 PM
22 February 2001 - 5:36 ayem
my cs241 book frequently refers to my "adversary" when advising how to write algorithms. its very strange. it creates the vague impression that they are preparing me for battle.
Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 22 February 2001 at 5:36 AM
21 February 2001 - 8:09 am
Hello.
The proprietors of negative273 are pleased to announce their first artistic collaboration, a comic strip entitled "Year of the Monkey." Our first (and, so far, only) strip can be viewed by clicking here. We are considering making this into a series of strips, and would appreciate it if you would give us some feedback.
Thank you.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 21 February 2001 at 8:09 AM
19 February 2001 - 5:27 pm
I decided last night that I should be king, or emperor, of something. The only problem is that I'm not sure what I should rule. Current favorites include the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. If you have any good ideas, please send them to me.
PS -- It irritates me more than I can express that Leonardo DiCaprio has made being "King of the World" unacceptable. If I ever meet him in a dark alley. . .
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 19 February 2001 at 5:27 PM
19 February 2001 - 4:43 pm
Good afternoon.
Today the South 40 mailroom managed to prove my theory that the mailroom adds days to any estimated delivery times. They managed to do this by delivering three pieces of mail to me. Normally, this would not be a problem, and I would appreciate it. Today, however, is President's Day, and in honor of this glorious holiday, the US Postal Service does not deliver mail. This means that all the mail I received today was delivered, at best on Saturday.
Speaking of Saturday, when I went to the mailroom on Saturday at 1:00pm, I found the mailroom all locked up, despite the abundance of signs posted in the vicinity of the mailroom that list the Saturday hours as 10:00am - 2:00pm. Now, the last time I checked, 1 o'clock falls into that range, but apparently mailroom time is slightly different.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 19 February 2001 at 4:43 PM
18 February 2001 - 10:47 pm
As you may have noticed, negative273 now has a webcam. I was going to place it in the common room, but the cord is not long enough to reach out there. So you're stuck looking at me as I do things at my desk.
In honor of our new webcam, we are holding another negative273 contest. The procedure for participating in the contest is quite simple.
- View the cam between now and Sunday, 26 February 2001.
- When you see me acting stupid or looking funny, save the image and email it to zero@negative273.com.
- After all the entries are received, michael will judge the one that he feels makes me look the stupidest or that he thinks I will find the most embarrassing. This image will be the winner.
- There may be more than one winner.
- The winner will be notified via email that they have won. They will also be asked for their mailing address. Once they provide a mailing address, prize(s) will be mailed to them.
If you have any questions, please email us.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 18 February 2001 at 10:47 PM
16 February 2001 - 7:17 ayem
(1) knowledge is power.
(2) ignorance is bliss.
(3) no power is no knowledge.
(4) no power is powerlessness.
(5) no knowledge is ignorance.
(6) powerlessness is bliss.
I suppose its an all or nothing sort of thing.
Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 16 February 2001 at 7:17 AM
13 February 2001 - 10:21 pm
Small things that shouldn't bother me have been really getting under my skin recently. For example, the webpage for my Econ class is just about the worst site I've ever seen that was designed for an actual audience. I mean, it has real, honest-to-God, useful content, but it is designed in such a way as to make that content as hard as possible to find. What the hell does "The Answer Man" (displayed, of course, in a size 7 font) mean? Of course, the real kicker is the fact that every graphic is a local link to the TA's HDD.
Something else that has been bothering me is my calendar. Every year WashU gives out free calendars that cover August through May (the "school year"). The problem is that this year's calendar is incorrect. The entire month of February has an off-by-one error. By this I mean that every single date on the February page is one below what the correct day is. This is causing me all kinds of trouble, as I think I have more time to finish homework than I really do, all because I think it is one day earlier than it really is. I even marked out all of the dates and wrote the correct ones in, but the original dates are darker than the ones I wrote in, so sitting at my desk, a good 8 feet from the calendar., I only see the original days. I could go and mark out the dates more vigorously, but like I said, I'm getting annoyed by small things, and the corollary to that is that I am resisting all efforts to fix the things that annoy me. I don't really know why, so don't ask.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 13 February 2001 at 10:21 PM
13 February 2001 - 9:31 pm
I have no place to work in my room, so I've decided to devote tonight to cleaning up my desks. I have papers and bills and Gundams piled all over the place and I need to find a place to put them.
I don't have any tests for two more weeks. I've never gone so far into a semester without a test. Of course, the downside to all of this is that all of my classes have tests the week before spring break.
When asked to come up with something pithy to say to our readers, Scott said "Ummm... nothing." That's about par for the course for Scott.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 13 February 2001 at 9:31 PM
12 February 2001 - 3:38 am
michael thinks the site goes down too much (i.e., the site that does our "stealth redirection" goes down too much). I haven't noticed any problems, save for once at the ungodly hour of 3am, but I thought I would inquire of our readers (or reader, as in the post below) as to whether this has been a problem. So, if you have had trouble reaching this site recently, please send us an email and let us know.
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 12 February 2001 at 3:38 PM
12 February 2001 - 3:55 am
I've spent the better part of the evening writing some Java™ code. This is, of course, not all that unusual, since I occasionally pretend to be a CS major, but the strange thing is, I did all of my coding tonight at a UNIX command line. I feel like I now qualify as a "hacker." I mean, I didn't even use pico, I used emacs. I even tried vi for a little while.
As a consequence of my new status as a "hacker," I now have a great deal of responsibilities. Within the next seventy-two hours, I must initiate a Denial-of-Service attack on a major website, as well as spread a virus across the US via email. Fortunately, we "hackers" do not sleep, so I will have no trouble fitting all of this into my already busy schedule. Anyway, off I go to update my ".plan" file and to write some "shell scripts."
[For all of you who are going to email me for computer/UNIX help now that I am a "hacker," let me save you the trouble. Any and all solutions can be found by reading the source code to the software that is giving you trouble. What, your software isn't open source? Well no wonder you're having trouble with it.]
Comments: 0 Posted by david on 12 February 2001 at 3:55 AM
11 February 2001 - 6:54 piem
it has been brought to my attention by our reader, ben ewing, that we are losing our readership to cnn.com. this is due, he sites, in part to cnn.com's "content," which upon reflection is something negative273 lacks. but I feel I must mention, one thing cnn lacks is insight into my personal life. where else (besides maybe nothing is good) can you glimpse into my life? how else can you learn that I am no longer sleeping at night or that I have so much homework to do this weekend that for the third sunday in a row, I probably will be up all night working on it? it seems to me that cnn is a bit lacking in the "personal details about michael" department. which is exactly why Ive decided to post that I very badly need a hair cut, I have a lot of laundry to do tonight, and my room is a mess.
by the way, dave thinks I should post more. anybody even care? let me know.
Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 11 February 2001 at 6:54 PM
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