campus email down

so the campus email system took a nap this afternoon apparently—I left right when we noticed that the bank of uptime indicators resembled a lite-brite if you were only using red pegs.  When I returned everybody had that frazzled, mussed-up look where either they all just finished a department-wide makeout session or they had spent [...]

climate

so Santa Cruz weather finally realized it was winter and began acting as such.  first it was dark and rainy for three straight days.  now it’s just clear and cold.  how cold?  well maybe it’s just the inhumanity of my schedule (cue white priveledge bleating) that has me getting up at 6:50 (sunrise), leaving for [...]

cruzgrumble.ucsc.edu

okay, so here’s the deal, once and for all:
if you’re calling me at work, you are most likely having an issue with cruzmail, cruztime, cruznet, cruz[whatever].  this means that you are somehow affiliated–student, staff, faculty, treesitter, etc–with  the university of california at santa cruz.  Thus, when I read you an internet address for one of [...]

obviously I got as much out of this class as was put in…

cmps80u was the worst class I ever took, and even now, its legacy lives on…

gee, professor, what a really helpful evaluation.  Without it, I would’ve only known for sure that I had passed, but now I am positive.  your interest and engagement was mediocre during the course, and obviously has not improved since.

whaaaaat?

“and now we will learn this programming language—which I think is very fun to learn!”
this is supposed to be an introductory, not-for-majors class on ubiquitous and mobile technology!  what the fuck? we don’t need to learn C to understand how cell phones, pocketpc’s, etc etc work!
okay I swear, this will be the last cmps80u bitchfest.

CMPE80U: Ubiquitous and Mobile Technology

This really could be a good class.  As a technological society, we are perched at the edge of a total paradigm shift—from computers as general-use terminals, to distributed computing becoming a transparent and intimate part of our lives.
but no. we learn about binary code. and the archaic innards of computer architecture, which will become obsolete [...]

Scholarly pursuits and precipitation

Today it was raining when I woke up, rained as I went about my business, and will be raining when I go to sleep.
Aforementioned business:
CMPE80U: Ubiquitous and Mobile Technology: This class had a lot of promise, because I feel that we’re on the brink of a(nother) technological revolution—the transition from visible, CPU-based computing to [...]

this shit is why I will never be an econ major

like, this is simple introductory shit in a econ-for-non-majors textbook, but still.  nuh-uh, I’m not spending 5 minutes figuring out what all dem’ lines mean.

man I’m so %*}

Instant messages, blog entries and text messages often look like Sanskrit to parents, but decoding this lingo used in digital communications is an important monitoring skill that should not be overlooked.
kpc: keeping parents clueless
kotl: kiss on the lips
%*}: inebriated
%\: hangover
more
man, when I was a kid all we had was lol, wtf, etc.  apparently today’s tweens [...]

infantile

okay, like, I understand that it’s traumatic when the university expands, and that every tree in upper-campus is, like, a precious jewel of the ecosystem and stuff, but really, you’re not lending yourself credibility when you express your contempt for The Man in such a juvenile way:

and how about getting the fucking acronym right, eh?  [...]