Well, I think I’ve got a celebrity crush (indeed, it might be my first one… though these things tend to be fleeting). Felicia Day. Sigh.

How can you not like a girl who put up her own photo for Wikipedia, or who blogs, or is on Twitter and lastFM, or who can sing Still Alive:

And can even be cute when being BadHorse’d:

Sigh

The twitputer is no more - there “have been complaints”. When pressed, the don suggested “fire hazard”. Ok, fine, whatever - but it would’ve been very nice if they’d given me an alternate location for it. I don’t think this came from the don, and I can see a potential issue, but if someone knows that that’s a fire hazard, they probably know what is NOT a fire hazard and could’ve helped me out. I thought that was the fucking point - put out ideas, get feedback, solve problems.

Also, tons of people are having trouble with the internet. Looks like resnet failed to reset the ports, so everyone’s connections are dead because they’re all associated with the LAST resident who lived there.

Also the washroom labelled “Women’s”, which we re-labeled “Men’s” (being an ALL GUY FLOOR) has been changed back to “Women’s”. Sure, they took out the tampon receptacle and were OK with it for a week, and sure it will “almost certainly” be turned INTO a Men’s washroom - but apparently we can’t just put up clearly-marked signage and have complete agreement with everyone on the floor about why it’s a good idea. I guess we need someone with “Official sign changing +3” power.

Also, no phones this term - even though the website clearly stated that there would be one. Nice one.

Also, while they asked students to beta-test this new “online community” software for the Velocity Student site, they actually just wasted the student’s time, since they’re throwing all that out and going with Sharepoint since Microsoft gave them the license or something. Also the Sharepoint site isn’t working, since there are “Licensing issues”.

And hey! Renovations are still ongoing! No common spaces! We had our first meeting on the front steps of the building. Wonder if I should ask for a refund, since I figured I’d be in a building WITH some common spaces.

I’m probably tired out from orientation week, but I’m really fucking pissed. Day 1 they basically gave the finger to the whole concept of having the students take ownership of the residence and really turn it into a cool, creative, place.

On the plus side, I’m starting to lose my feeling of guilt about not being able to properly contribute. The bottom line is that my contract with them is for housing, they can’t make me do shit. The idea was to have motivated, creative students here - and I tried that. Didn’t work out so well. It’s a simple idea - I did something, you said that wasn’t OK. That’s fine, I know I can’t do anything I want, and I know a lot of this isn’t coming from the don alone - but GIVE ME A REASONABLE ALTERNATIVE.

Students are living here TODAY. They want to use the internet TODAY. They want to go to the bathroom TODAY. Changing a sign or resetting ports is simple and should’ve been done months ago.

Anybody know what they’re getting at? The only thing I can think of is that it’s “a commercial about nothing”… which is sort of a reference to Seinfeld, but has nothing to do with Vista.

Now let’s look at an Apple ad: (or… 15 I guess)

Way to go Microsoft. You’re taking ‘em by storm.

One of the big buildings on campus:

I was pretty zonked at the time…

Apparently it’s all Ajax-ified and the code will be open sourced soon.

For the curious, from what I understand, it’s running on Google’s appengine fetching and caching Twitter feeds, and then the front-end page is using Ajax to fetch it every 62 seconds to catch updates. Hopefully we can get most/all Velocity on it soon enough.

Why do TV shows pay good money for medical or criminal expertise to be “realistic”, then as soon as a computer term comes up just say, “oh fuck it”?

Sure, I know a lot of people don’t know computer terms - but besides the parts where House is being a dick I have no idea what he’s going on about. It doesn’t even have to be a full-time person, a writer just has to meet a computerish person at a party sometime… oh… I see the problem now…