Success!

The transition is complete! Gridley finally came back online this morning, and after a few hours of finangling with SQL, you’d hardly know the difference. This site is as good as old.
That, however, may be a problem.
My hip urban existence is growing a little concerned here. I need something a little more [...]

Don’t Call it a Comeback

I’ve gone corporate.
For the past two years, this blog has been hosted by what one might call the kumbaya circle of servers. Gridley is Carleton’’s student-run Unix server, a sandbox for Carleton folks to build and destroy their own little Internet castles.
Like the harmonious existence it represents, Gridley is a beautiful idea with just a [...]

Crashing head-on into the real world

As I kick back and enjoy a nice cold beer after my first day of the real world, I think: what will become of this blog?
Surely it can’t just go away. After all, I’m not going away anytime soon. I may not be in college, but I am young. I am alive. [...]

Sleep: How I Scorn Thee Meaninglessly

You know you’ve got senioritis when you’re not sleeping enough–not because you have too much work to do–but because you just procrastinate that much.
I am a useless ball of procrastination.  I cannot get myself to do anything, and when I do, it is only under penalty of severe sleeplessness.  It’s amazing how good I seem [...]

Just to clear things up, I don’t knit

I’m always on the lookout for good blogs. Especially good blogs like mine.
I mean, let’s be honest. There are a lot of blogs out there, and not many of them are good. When it comes to “personal” blogs, the pickings are even slimmer. Well-written personal blogs by college students are practically [...]