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Class: 13 hr/wk Work: 19 hr/wk Math Homework: 4 hr/wk Coding Homework: 14 hr/wk minimum Reading for Class: 6 hr/wk Transit times: 7 hr/wk minimum National Guard duty: 20 hrs Total work and trans hours per drill week: ~77 minimum Hopefully, I can fit a meet up with Josh, a meet up with my brother, and some time with my wife in there. [...]
I almost got struck by lightning today. I was walking down Green St. at the outset of today’s storm, when all the hairs on my body began to stand on end. Then, POW!, lightning hit something on the block (not sure exactly where it arced to). It was bright and sudden, and I had a definite [...]
The last year or two has seen a rapid acceleration in the debut of new (or at least better-developed) toolkits for working with many languages. Most of these focus on web development, in particular “Web 2.0“. These languages (Ruby, PHP, Javascript, CSS, etc), and web development in general, are not my forte. I am a low-level [...]