I less than three Lady Gaga.
Today I signed the lease for the apartment my sophomore year at Clemson. After deliberating with my future roommates for a while (Thomas McCutcheon, Allan Babcock, and Jackson Holder), we decided that Tillman Place would be the best fit for us.
Here are the perks of Tillman Place:
- High-Speed Wireless Internet Access
- Parking Space for Each Bedroom
- Full-Size Washer/Dryer
- Refrigerator/Ice Maker
- Dishwasher
- Stove/Oven
- Multiple Telephone and Cable Outlets
- Patio or Balcony with Storage
- 4-Bedroom Units have 2 Bathrooms (tub w/ showers) and 2 Double Sinks
- Breakfast Bar
- Community Pool
- Community Volleyball Court
- Exercise & Weight Room
- On CAT Bus Line
Because it’s only 1/2 mile away from Campus (by Monteray’s and Skins), I plan on riding my bike to class unless it’s raining. If that’s the case, I’ll drive to class and park in the Commuter spaces. It makes me chuckle when I think that the Commuter spaces in R-1 (“the pit”) are actually closer than I usually park in Aisle 10. Even better, the Commuter pass is half of the price!
If you’re curious as to the nitty-gritty details, here they are:
Rent: $1040/month ($260/person/month) w/o Utilities
NOTE: The Apartments on campus are $5900/person/semester ($590/person/month)
Unit Number: 631 (third floor)
Lease: August 15, 2010 – August 14, 2011
NOTE: Classes start August 18, 2010
Needless to say, I’m extremely excited about next semester. I knew that I wanted to live off campus since Clemson House was designated as freshman housing, but we really lucked into this place with everything that we could want. All I have to do is survive the rest of this year in my windowless jail cell…
As much as I love Spotlight for the time it saves me every day, it definitely gets slower as the hard drive fills up. The trick is to add folders and directories to be excluded from searches and indexing, but the problem is to know exactly which to choose.
Go to System Preferences => Spotlight, and under the Privacy tab, click the plus button and then choose the user/Library/ directory to be excluded form the search and indexing functions.
Immediately after you’ll notice a remarkable improvement in speed, and that goes for the whole system since lots of apps write temporary files to that directory and Spotlight is always working on indexing those. No mortal need to know the content of those files, anyway, so off ye go!
I’m having a good day, thus the recent posting of things that might make you laugh.
If you haven’t guessed already, I’m really into computers. I love having the latest, greatest product, but I LOVE my MacBook Pro (BTW, I will NEVER own an iPad). Not only is Snow Leopard infinitely better than Windows, but the hardware is incredible, too.
One thing I’ve noticed, however, is that the OSX dock doesn’t give you an option to add a spacer to organize your program. After scouring the internet (and not willing to install another program [though this is as simple as dragging it into the Applications folder]), I found a snippet of code that will allow you to do just what I wanted.
Step 1: Fire up Terminal.
Step 2: Paste the following code and press [ENTER].
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type" = "spacer-tile";}'
Step 3: Run a killall Dock" to restart the dock.
Now you should see a space at the end of the last permanently visible program. You can drag this to whatever space in the dock you would like. To add more spacers, just repeat steps 2 and 3! You can see an example of my dock on the left side of the screen. I have my dock permanently visible on the left, expanded to full height (which automatically adjusts as new programs are run), and with a transparent background.
I had a need recently to convert a .bin/.cue CD Image pair to .iso for mounting on OSX. I was considering writing a quick utility to handle the task, but in the process of researching the file formats, I found BinChunker, a GPL-licensed piece of code that does exactly what I need, simply and directly.
Step 1: Download this file.
Step 2: Once you download the utility, issue this command from a shell prompt in the directory where you downloaded the file:
sudo cp bchunk /usr/bin/
Step 3: To convert a .bin/.cue pair to a .iso, you can issue this command:
bchunk myinputfile.bin myinputfile.cue myoutputfile
And that’s it!
I got out of my ECON212 class early today and stopped by the office of Rhonda Woods, my Academic Advisor. What I found out was quite pleasing. In a previous post, I mentioned not being able to minor in Spanish but rather having to minor in “Spanish-American Studies”. When I brought this up to her, she mentioned that I actually COULD minor in just Spanish — it was under the Modern Languages Heading which was left out of the online edition of the Program of Studies. Shame on me for missing that.
Anyway, next semester I will plan on resuming my Spanish classes for a minor in Spanish, along with my dual degree in Marketing and International Business Management.
On another note, I’m thinking about taking ACCT201 online at Trident Technical College over the summer so I will transfer into my junior year (technically my sophomore year) with that credit, rather than taking it at Clemson. It has been said that ACCT201 is the death of business majors, so since I don’t plan on my funeral anytime in the near future, this should be the safe option.
What do you think?
I realized that my parents were born in a very special year…
It was the third time that Crayola added more colors to their crayon line!
