thoughts/rants
ATTN: 1and1
It became woefully apparent that 1and1 had the worst customer service of any webhosting company. All I wanted was for them to temporarily increased my php memory limit to 32M, but instead I received this:
Dear [user],
Thank you for contacting us.
Your current package only has a maximum PHP memory limit of 30 MB. Upgrading to the new WordPress version requires more PHP memory. We would advise that you upgrade to a Dual hosting package specifically either Dual Advanced or Dual Unlimited to get more PHP memory.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
June Zacarnette Hornido
Technical Support
1&1 Internet
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So there you have it. If you want to upgrade your version of wordpress, 1and1 requires you pay them more money; and, for that, 1and1 get a big fuck you from me by the way of cancelling my account.
FUCK YOU
Teaching / start of new semester
I’ve entered confidence building mode today. Had all the confidence in the world yesterday, but I don’t have quite as much today. So I’m slowly working up energy and confidence necessary to go in and dominate a classroom that will likely have students hanging from the ceiling to fit in. Here’s the plan:
- Start by telling all the people who want to add the class that they need to get the fuck out because we’re full up
- Handing out 6 sets of 4 cards from a poker deck, and have the students arrange into groups
- Write name, office location and hours, phone, and vista only for email on the board
- Tell them where they can purchase the lab manual for $10 (rm 234)
- Ask them to raise hand if they are a freshman
- Ask them to raise hand if they are a sophomore
- Ask them to raise hand if they are a junior
- Ask them to raise hand if they are a senior or super-senior
- Send attendance sheet, and have them state their name, where they’re from and what their major is or possibly could be, if they’re in a frat/soro
- Introduce metric system (temp, length, mass, time, and volume)
- Go over measurement equipment
- Tell them to start the lab and describe where the outdoor portion is
Seems fairly simple, but somehow I know one of these stupid bastards is going to fuck it up. Either way, it will still be a confidence building day!
SB-Birthday, what to do?
Oh what do to. The options I’ve come up with so far far Stephanies bday include:
- Fancy diner at somewhere that serves things she can eat (Japanese blossom?).
- A microphone so she can start her own business and do what she loves.
- A phone upgrade (iphone 4 or android? Oh the choices).
- Taking a tip out of town some place (undecided destination).
- More Hello-Kitty stuff.
That’s what I’ve come up with so far. At this point, I think the material things would arrive before her birthday, but might show up after — in which case, she would get a box with an invoice/receipt in it on her birth day.
Personality types
My time today was mostly consumed looking into what personality type I may have; or more practically, what, if any, personality disorders I may possess. So far what I’ve been able to gleam from mild research around the web, and archived internet discussions, was that I fell into two possible categories: the Myers-Briggs personality type of INTJ (introversion, intuition, thinking, judgment) or some type of schizoid personality disorder. The first one matches me to a ‘T’, but unfortunately I also meet a number of the criteria that are used to classify people into as schizoid personality. Could it be that having an INTJ personality type means that I automatically have a schizoid personality? I’m really not sure, and probably lack the background to make such a judgement, but the description of people possessing each is rather interesting.
Everything is private!
That’s right, everything of much importance is now set to private — well, most things anyway. At some point I’ll figure out how to get this bitch of a website to display a user registration form, but until then you’re out of luck on reading anything of much interest.
New semester time
It’s that time again. What time you ask? Ahh! Time for another round of keep me out of the job market! Guess that’s what graduate school truly is since there aren’t a whole lot of jobs to speak of out there. Might as well stay right? Depends I think. Mostly It depends on if you can hack it in graduate school, but then you have all these extra loans to pay off when you still aren’t particularly sure what it is you’re going to be doing in graduate school. Good point right? Maybe, but at least it’s something to do with the spare time this shit economy has forced on me. Either way, pretty sure I’ll be taking jobs in China instead of Chico by the end of this.
New kick-ass header
Spent the last few hours figuring out how to use gimp to make a nice new header image. Took a while and some searching for different brushes online to make it just right, but, as you can see, I did a pretty good job on it — at least I think so.
Phone Security
Was just reading an interesting article about cellphone security over at arstechnica. A quick summary of the article is that now, with some new rulings, if you’re stopped and the police snag your phone, they can rifle through the bitch without any warrant. So best password that phone before your next run in with the police. 
One of my favs
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMNfTrLG380&ob=av2el
Teaching log, Day 1.
Today was the first day teaching. Suppose it went well; although, apparently they wanted to know about me — who I was other than just a teacher with a name. Who knew? I gave them the tone of indifference and required them to read the syllabus until I was content that most of them had read the deal. Then I handed them their labs, while making them sign in for the day. It seems my task was complete as they assumed that I was a professor on this day.