I love being told by a computer that I don't exist. Keeps me humble.
To explain...I'm starting grad school today, so the professor sent an email saying "Welcome class! Sign into webct and print off the course notes." I tried. The system said I was an unidentified user.
So I called tech support and explained the problem. After a few minutes of trouble-shooting, the guy on the other end of the phone mused, "Hmmm, that's interesting. According to our system, you don't exist."
Slightly befuddled, I explained that I do exist (at least as far as I can tell). The tech guy assured me that he had yet to meet any phone-calling ghosts, and that he'd put in a request to have the system recognize me.
I picture a bunch of tech guys in long robes, bowing and chanting in front of a server, "Oh great computer, we humbly ask you to deign to recognize this poor grad student..."
Monday, August 27, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
"How do you eat your candy?"
I laughed so hard when I read this post on Cosmic Variance.
As a major geek (and proud of it), I also have a slight candy neurosis. Specifically with M&M's, although I've also been known to do it with Skittles. I separate all the candies into sets of "rainbows" (i.e. every group has one red, one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, and one brown M&M) arranged in a circle. I take the rest of them and arrange them in as-close-to-rainbow-circles-as-possible. (i.e. if I have a red, orange, yellow, green, and brown, but no more blues, I make a rainbow-minus-blue circle.) And I continue the trend until I'm down to the loners (for example, 3 extra yellows that don't have a rainbow-group to join).
First I eat the left-overs (the non-complete rainbows). And I eat my M&M's in order of loneliness. By that I mean, I eat all the singletons first. Then the pairs, then the triplets, etc, until I'm up to the full circles.
Then I'm left with pretty rainbow-circle-chocolates. :-)
Hey, at least now I know it's a geek thing, and I'm not just crazy. (Well ok, maybe I am, but at least I'm not alone.)
Leave a comment if you do something similar with your candy...
As a major geek (and proud of it), I also have a slight candy neurosis. Specifically with M&M's, although I've also been known to do it with Skittles. I separate all the candies into sets of "rainbows" (i.e. every group has one red, one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, and one brown M&M) arranged in a circle. I take the rest of them and arrange them in as-close-to-rainbow-circles-as-possible. (i.e. if I have a red, orange, yellow, green, and brown, but no more blues, I make a rainbow-minus-blue circle.) And I continue the trend until I'm down to the loners (for example, 3 extra yellows that don't have a rainbow-group to join).
First I eat the left-overs (the non-complete rainbows). And I eat my M&M's in order of loneliness. By that I mean, I eat all the singletons first. Then the pairs, then the triplets, etc, until I'm up to the full circles.
Then I'm left with pretty rainbow-circle-chocolates. :-)
Hey, at least now I know it's a geek thing, and I'm not just crazy. (Well ok, maybe I am, but at least I'm not alone.)
Leave a comment if you do something similar with your candy...
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