Monthly Archives: October 2009

What’s in a name?

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet There are some things that we, as human beings, are inherently better at doing than others. We’re masters of survival, brilliant at short-term planning, extremely … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, lolcat, random | Tagged a rose is a rose is a rose, categories, change, cosmos, david wong is a freaking genius, human, i love humanity in all its complexity, labels, logical fallacy, lolcat, monkeh, monkeysphere, philosophy, simplify simplify simplify except in the case of oversimplification, strengths and weaknesses, transience, turtles all the way down, waxing philosophical, we are contradictions | 2 Comments

The next step

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

It seems like I was only just applying to graduate programs in anticipation of leaving the familiar surroundings of Georgia Tech to go gallivanting off to my next academic adventure. And yet, here I am again: with my M.S. degree … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life | Tagged blogs, carnegie mellon, cdc, cognition therapeutics, computational biology, computer science, geektacular, georgia tech, Graduate School, lolcat, merrick furst, personal statement, phd, politics permeats every level of society, research, resume, robert murphy, science fair, student bloggers, why are you so awesome, why is this school so awesome, why were your awesome self and this awesome school made for each other | Leave a comment

It’s fall: must be time to Hibernate

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

So I’m taking this web apps course, where we’re making use of Apache Tomcat, J2EE, and generally learning how to employ the MVC framework in a modern web application (which we call “Fakebook”. Yeah I know, lollercoptorz, rite?). On the … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, The Lady | Tagged battery, cathryn, database, fakebook buahaha I GET IT, frameworks, hibernate, hibernate is to databases what gentoo is to operating systems, i'm pretty sure a battery isn't supposed to expand, j2ee, laptop, lithium-ion pwnage, lolcat, macbook, must be fall the leaves are changing color and it's cold as hell, mvc, struts, there seems to be some kind of forcefield, tomcat, v2, vsquared, web applications | 3 Comments

We’ll beam you up to our ship

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

I interrupt my regularly scheduled blogging drivel to bring you this discussion on the StarGate: Universe premier that aired this past Friday night. It was, in a single word, awesome. I want to touch on the characters and my thoughts … Continue reading →

Posted in random | Tagged ancients, camille wray, chloe armstrong, colonel young, destiny, dr nicholas rush, eli wallace, faster than light, hyperdrive, hyperspace, jack o'neill, juxtaposition, lieutenant johansen, lieutenant scott, lucian alliance, nuances, sergeant greer, stargate, stargate atlantis, stargate sg-1, stargate universe, superluminal, universe | 5 Comments

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