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|: Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus; :|
Post jucundam juventutem,
Post molestam senectutem
|: Nos habebit humus! :|

|: Vita nostra brevis est,
Brevi finietur, :|
Venit mors velociter,
Rapit nos atrociter,
|: Nemini parcetur. :|

|: Ubi sunt qui ante
Nos in mundo fuere? :|
Vadite ad superos,
Transite ad inferos,
|: Ubi iam fuere. :|

|: Vivat academia,
Vivant professores, :|
Vivat membrum quodlibet,
Vivant membra quaelibet,
|: Semper sint in flore! :|

|: Vivant omnes virgines
Faciles, formosae, :|
Vivant et mulieres,
Tenerae, amabiles,
|: Bonae, laboriosae! :|

|: Vivat et respublica
Et qui illam regit, :|
Vivat nostra civitas,
Maecenatum caritas,
|: Quae nos hic protegit! :|

|: Pereat tristitia,
Pereant osores, :|
Pereat diabolus,
Quivis antiburschius,
|: Atque irrisores! :|

|: Alma Mater floreat,
Quae nos educavit; :|
Caros et commilitones,
Dissitas in regiones
|: Sparsos, congregavit; :|

|: While we’re young, let us rejoice,
Singing out in gleeful tones; :|
After youth’s delightful frolic,
And old age (so melancholic!),
|: Earth will cover our bones. :|

|: Life is short and all too soon
We emit our final gasp; :|
Death ere long is on our back;
Terrible is his attack;
|: None escapes his dread grasp. :|

|: Where are those who trod this globe
In the years before us? :|
They in hellish fires below,
Or in Heaven’s kindly glow,
|: Swell th’ eternal chorus. :|

|: Long live our academy,
Teachers whom we cherish; :|
Long live all the graduates,
And the undergraduates;
|: Ever may they flourish. :|

|: Long live all the maidens fair,
Easy-going, pretty; :|
Long live all good ladies who
Are tender and so friendly to
|: Students in this city. :|

|: Long live our Republic and
The gentlefolk who lead us; :|
May the ones who hold the purse
Be always ready to disburse
|: Funds required to feed us. :|

|: Down with sadness, down with gloom,
Down with all who hate us; :|
Down with those who criticize,
Look with envy in their eyes,
|: Scoff, mock and berate us. :|

|: May our Alma Mater thrive,
A font of education; :|
Friends and colleagues, where’er they are,
Whether near or from afar,
|: Heed her invitation. :|

I couldn’t find the verses that are allegedly about how Alma Mater should furnish us with free beer and bread. But if you want to listen and translate it yourself, you may. Anyhow, it is far overdue for me to be done with school and never to return. (My other great accomplishment of the weekend is finishing Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, which took more time and effort than my last semester at Biola.)

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It’s a good time to be a web developer at Biola.

For starters, IT has has realized that making everyone do everything on Coldfusion is in fact a Very Bad Idea since it means a lot of departments will simply go out and pay for hosting with a third party rather than go through the associated pain and suffering of developing a site with CF. So they are setting up a server on which you can use a variety of languages and development platforms. (Rails development! For Biola! Wheee!)

But the big thing is just that web jobs are just popping up left and right. I’m leaving my Student Affairs job this summer, and they are looking for a replacement. But on top of that I’ve been offered work by no less than five other people in the past month. If you need a job, contact me!

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I came up with a great name for something. It would be ideal for a band or something like that, but I don’t have any plans on starting one. So here I am, stuck with a great name and nothing to use it for. Shame, shame, shame.

It even has a logo (a rough sketch of one):

Geek points if you can catch the reference.

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There’s something rather vogue about saying of your current employer ‘currently has no physical address’ and listing a URI instead on an application.

define: Student (stu`dent) n.

• A person who is engaged in or addicted to study. Const. of, in, or with defining word prefixed, indicating the subject studied. Also with adj. of degree, as close, deep, {dag}good, great, hard student.
• A person who is undergoing a course of study and instruction at a university or other place of higher education or technical training. Also const. of, in (a subject); often with defining word prefixed, as art, law, medical student.
• An inexperienced user of illegal drugs; spec. one who takes small or occasional doses. U.S. Drug-users’ slang.
• Not Phil.

It’s the fourth meaning that is especially noteworthy to me at this point.

In closing, here is a Ruby function to calculate Internet Checksum, aka IP Checksum:

def internet_checksum(data)

  sum = 0

  data.unpack("S*").each do | bits |
    sum += bits
    if sum & 0xFFFF0000 != 0
      sum = sum & 0xFFFF
      sum += 1
    end
  end

  # this gets returned
  sum = ~(sum & 0xFFFF)

end

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Did I mention I don’t want to work for a big company? This guy says it better than I could.

Also, I lost my voice for the first time in my life. I’m looking for a good speech synth program to help me out. Should be fun.

No photo. Sorry.

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define: unbearable

1. unbearable, unendurable—(impossible to bear; “unbearable pain”; “unendurable agony”)

Once again, I am questioning the value of living quarters that reach unlivable temperatures.

That is kind of what it feels like at 4:00 pm in our apartment. Air con may be expensive, but it would be difficult to say it’s not worth it.

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Whee—I just fixed my first Free Software bug. I know; I know: I’ve sure taken a long time to get around to it. The closest I’ve done was reporting a bug in Metacity, which I had every intention of fixing before I realized how much I hate C.

Next on my list: fixing this behaviour. It’s kind of an ugly hack, but a lot rests on this implementation.

More on Rails once I feel that I can give a worthy description of it.

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Why is it that only after I poke around for a while do I realize that the thing I should have done in the first place is check Wikipedia?

Oh, and I don’t know folks…. I may have to give up this whole ‘a picture with every post’ thing; it’s just getting to be too much of a stretch. Maybe every other post or something? What do you say? Here are some images from the first page of Google Image search for ‘eigen’:

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