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February 22, 2006
Grading Sucks
I really hate grading these days. Not really much more to say about that, other than it's sucking up just about all my time. As soon as I finish one week's set of grading it's time to get started on the next. I suppose I would be more productive if I weren't also watching the Olympics (or, in last night's case, '24') while grading, but that wouldn't be as enjoyable, now would it?
25-cent wings at Sports Cafe with Daniel for Tuesday lunch, however, are good. So so good. Though some of the wings there lately are giant mutant wings. Seriously, I had one today that was practically the size of a cornish hen, it was ridiculous. They've gotta be giving those chickens some sort of growth hormone. If they're even chickens...
I found out Monday afternoon that my cousin Jonathan's actually bought his plane tickets down to Arizona, meaning I'll get to hang out with him for the first few days of spring break, yay! Not quite sure what we'll do yet or where we'll go, anyone have any ideas or suggestions (aside from the Grand Canyon of course)?
Went and saw a couple apartments with Petters today in his current building, and we'll be going to a couple more tomorrow (Wed). It'll be good to have something to compare against.
TV ratings for the Torino Olympics are down from previous Olympiads, but I bet they'd go right back up if they introduced woman vs polar bear wrestling as a new event. It'd certainly be more interesting than snowboard halfpipe at least.
It appears that there's a worm virus out there for Mac OS X machines (one of the first I've heard of that targets Macs), but you still have to basically infect your machine yourself with your own stupidity in order for it to cause harm.
And in case any more evidence was needed why it's not worth it to get so wrapped up in politics that you get angry about it, here's some.
And finally, apparently it can be deadly in Florida to run out of toilet paper. Death by hammers. Doesn't sound like a pleasant way to go.
We get back our Cloud Physics exams tomorrow morning. Dr Harrington stopped by the TA office several times today while he was grading them to say they weren't too bad overall, except for mine, he told me I got a zero, haha. I think he likes torturing us. :-) We'll believe him when we see 'em...
Posted by Jared at February 22, 2006 12:47 AM
Comments
Its not a worm. Its more of a trojan/worm thing. You have to first download it (its a program with a picture icon pasted on it), double click it, type your password in (come on people!), and then it infects stuff. And by infect, I mean it just kind of spreads. It doesn't do any harm to your computer.
So kids: Don't type your password in when you try to open a picture file. Also, don't do drugs. Or spend your time taking bad rude pictures on top of a lion statue.
For a full run down of it, click the link below. (Note: Not porn, just sweet sweet computer love.)
http://cultofmac.com/index.php/2006/02/16/first_mac_os_x_worm_a_wake_up_call
Posted by: Joshua at February 22, 2006 09:15 AM
Josh,
How can you say it's "not a worm" and then a few words later still describe it as largely being a worm?
Oh, and there were ruder pictures of Carl on the lion. That one was rather tame. ;-)
Jared
Posted by: Jared at February 24, 2006 12:20 PM
Do you even know what the definition of a computer worm is Jared? The OS X thing that was out is more like a trojan than a worm. Actually, its not really anything. Its a strange hybrid.
But first, before it even does anything, you have to be stupid enough to download it and run it. Hmmmmm?
Posted by: Joshua at February 26, 2006 12:07 AM