Camera Phone Post: Bob Bain
After work today Bob and I attended a meeting of the SJSU Photographer's Guild. It is times like this that makes me appreciate working at a university.
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This is from the website of the Shrunken Head Man Club, otherwise known as the San José State Animation / Illustration club!
There will be a meeting on Thursday, August 30 for all Animation/Illustration students, freshmen through graduating seniors, in WSQ 109.
Bunny and the gang will be announcing speakers and events, reviewing standard policy, announcing changes, giving out fabulous prizes, and showing off animation.
At this time we'll steal the spotlight for a few moments to announce our usual start of the year club info, some fabulous changes, plans for the year, and we'll take sign-ups after the meeting ends.
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Free Software GNU Guru coming to SJSU on Sept. 11th
Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. This speech will be accessible to all audiences and the public is encouraged to attend. The speech is Tuesday, Sept 11 3:00-5:00pm San Jose State University, "Umunhum Room", Floor 2, Student Union Building, Student Union, Inc., One Washington Square, San Jose, CA.
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My Sister Iris
This photo is from around forty years ago. It was in a batch of slides my dad took that I recently discovered. That is one of the neatest things about good old fashioned analog film photography. You can have a container of very old pictures languish undiscovered like a time capsule waiting to be opened. Then, when you do open it, it explodes with memories. Fifty years from now how will people find our digital memories? Will an old CD ROM or hard drive beckon to be opened like an old box of pictures does?
Today is my sister's birthday. Soon she is going to be moving to California. I am really looking forward to having her closer. Happy birthday sister! This photo was taken in the living room of my parents' house on Granada Drive in Concord, CA. I hope to scan and share more as I get time.
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French Union forces of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps, and Vietnamese Viet Minh communist revolutionary forces. The battle occurred between March and May 1954, and culminated in a massive French defeat that effectively ended the war. In the opening phases of that battle the French observation outposts were in the process of being overrun by the Viet Minh. The last transmission from the French observers was them calling out for artillery strikes directly on their own positions.
It is so busy at my day job work, and I feel we are so under resourced to meet the need at my day job in the Academic Success Center at SJSU, that today I often thought of those French forward observers. Today I felt so overwhelmed I just felt like we were being overrun. I feel it is impossible to put in enough work to keep up with the staffing and the mission I am given. We are now further behind tonight than we were at the start of the day. Lately I just think of the thoughts of soldiers in a hopeless battle. Sometimes all you can hope for is to survive. I have this counter on my desktop, it counts the days and the hours and the minutes...
WLAN problems with Vista
San Jose State University's wireless network, provided under contract by Comcast, is having significant problems working with computers running Microsoft's Vista operating system. Large numbers of students, as well as faculty and staff, with new Windows computers running Vista OS are reporting they cannot access critical university Web resources from the wireless network on campus. These same resources are accessible if these Vista equipped computers are on the wired network or if the computers are attempting access from off campus. Reportedly, work is going on to resolve these problems as soon as possible.
Update!
This has been fixed!
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End of Summer Help Desk Party
On Friday, August 17, we had a big end of the summer party in Clark Hall for all the Help Desk staff. It was great fun. Sue joined us. We had a lot of yummy Indian food and shared a lot of laughter.
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