June 2010
27 posts
Things that my parents should have figured out by...
Cute dish rags suck. Cottony lint left all over the wine glasses. Buy simple dish rags and smile.
May 2010
24 posts
Resume
used to dealing with belligerent or otherwise unpleasant members of the general public
overeducated
can code LaTeX!
makes good pie crust
crazy driver
BROKE.
Breaking news from the What Holly Does With All That Downtime desk:
MIT psets (short for problem sets) are hard. I am using the online version of the class 18.01, the introductory calculus offering, to review what I learned in high...
“Welcome to my internet version of summer! (I painted my website yellow.)”
BBC News - Pakistani man arrested for attempting... →
Eunuchs? They still exist? What?!
Hi! My name is Holly. And I really need a job.
Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have... →
(via noorinmanc)
Things to do after installing Ubuntu on an EEE.
Pick good keychain password
Switch to Gnome desktop
Change system font
Add StatUX package here: http://www.statux.org/content?page=repo and install eeepc-tray.
Follow instructions here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/10-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu.html
Set up headless SpiderOak backup
Install Chromium and Skype
Establish...
Job hunt!
So, I need a job. I need to make money this summer.
I started applying for jobs around spring break. Between physical and online applications, I have applied to over two dozen jobs.
But I didn’t get hired. Ok. I hit the pavement again for a few hours this afternoon, and no one is hiring.
Shouldn’t people be hiring? Does the L.A. economy really stink that much?
Any leads? Please...
More things you can do with Ubuntu:
toggle between a normal computer desktop and “baby netbook screen” mode
install VPNs for access to school networks
run Dropbox, or better yet, SpiderOak (like SugarSync but better) in the background for backup
use Skype and take webcam photos
monitor CPU frequency for maximum battery life (I get over 7 hours at 1 ghz)
follow Twitter feeds...
Ubuntu Report
Long story short: I was thinking of showing my mom the benefits of owning a netbook (as opposed to her first-generation MacBook Pro). In comparison, the netbook would weigh less and be generally less intimidating than using a full-scale laptop. But my mom is the anti-Microsoft, with the exception of Word, so I had to prove to her that Linux is a pretty great alternative to Mac OS X.
So I put the...
so we haven't had toilet paper in our bathroom for...
fantasmagori:
i’ve been using the bathroom in the cafeteria.
I finally obtained a roll of toilet paper.
I just used it for the first time and then hid it under our sink so my suite-mate can’t find it.
I have no idea what she’s been doing for the past two weeks.
but she can keep doing it.
Wait… you have your own bathroom!!?!??! NO FAIR!
48 hours in Los Angeles
Things I have done:
slept.
ran errands in Hollywood and Silver Lake.
went to the Y with Larkino like old times.
made a mess of my room.
Oh, and:
overwrote my ($120) installation of Windows 7 with Ubuntu 10, thinking that the Win 7 partition was the XP partition and vice versa. OOOOOPS.
rolled with it and have converted completely to Ubuntu in 24 hours.
So if you have any questions about...
College: like, whoosh!
Here I am on my last Monday of being a college freshman. This has been the fastest year of my life.
Schedule: exam in 1.25 hours, day to finish a philosophy paper, day to study for another exam, exam and packing, day to pack, move out, and study for exam, day to take last final and fly home.
I will be in L.A. before Sunday.
In other news: spent my last weekend at school… at MIT. Had a...
What Flavor is Internet Ice Cream? →
Apparently, the best ice cream place in the world, Toscanini’s (on the intersection of Mass. and Main), created a new flavor of ice cream in honor of ROFLcon:
Internet ice cream: vanilla… with Nerds swirled in. (Guess where I’m dragging Eddo Friday night!)
