David's Mumblings
Ergonomics Having heard of people installing similar software, I downloaded Workrave, a program that reminds you to take breaks, and tries to enforce it, too, by beeping at you if you don't take time off. The delays are configurable; I've got mine set to a twenty second break every four minutes, and a five minute break every forty five minutes. It's kind of annoying to get interrupted every four minutes when I'm doing something that doesn't involve typing (like clicking through news articles), but I figure it was worth a try. Positive results so far: after about two weeks of using this, my hand feels normal in the morning again... (In fact, the problem went away after a day or two of regular breaks.) ^ TOP Tires changedAll that's left now is to bring the old rim to a tire place and get a new tire. Oh, and I think I'll be writing a letter to Frontier Ford (the dealer) explaining how disappointed we are in their "service" -- the tire that died in Salt Lake City was sorely worn, according to the guy who changed the tires there; this tire also showed signs of being pretty worn out. (The rubber was gone in spots, leaving some sharp metal wire bits that I unfortunately jabbed myself with. Ouch.) I should have expected it: the first time we paid them >$150 for a check-up, they didn't change the windshield cleaning water. If they aren't thorough enough to do even that, what else is it that they're not doing? Apparently not really checking the tires, either... harrumph. I ask you: why pay $150+ to get ripped off officially by Ford, when you can go to a generic car place and pay $50 to get ripped off? ^ TOP Flat TireFrom our previous adventures with tires, you might remember that our spare is a full tire, so we'll put that on tomorrow and go grab another tire for the old rim. This is starting to kind of irritate me, but what can you do? Better the tires than the engine, in any case... ^ TOP Dumb Defaults But noooo, the default is to take all of the email off of the server and move it to the local computer. So it helpfully trashed my entire IMAP inbox, moving all of the files to my user space on the Stanford systems. At least I still have the emails, although I have now lost all record of what I have read, what I've replied to, what I've forwarded, what I've marked as needing future attention... Apparently, this has happened before, so Stanford has a system that resends all of your email to your IMAP inbox. I tried running it, and of 700 email messages it only restored 200. I'm trying it again, this time after modifying their system to have larger delays in between email restores. The problem, it would seem, is due to a default setting that is set by the Stanford machines that tells pine to helpfully move all of your email off of the server. It seems ridiculous that the default for IMAP should be to trash the usefulness of IMAP. @$!@%!@#$"!@$"!@"$!@#$!@#. ^ TOP "Temporary Wives" ??? The Holy Hand GrenadeSome choice quotations from the article (emphasis mine): Read More → ^ TOP "Please RSVP"It's kind of like how you order an appetizer and then a starter (entree) at the restaurant. Grr. I am reminded of the Uncyclopedia article on Redundancy. :-) ^ TOP Small World: people find my posts!It turns out that my post is the #1 result, and contains a discussion between my father and I about various assumptions and considerations regarding side effects, optimization and Java iterators. I find it pretty neat that not only did somebody from this company find my page during their search, but also that mine is the first result in a Google search (albeit a fairly precise one). Now I can only hope that my page was remotely useful to them... :-) ^ TOP |
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