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2007 May 27 terra


Guy Blade Guy Blade---08:25:00


The End of an Era
So, today I graduated from Rose-Hulman. I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Computer Science. Tomorrow (Sunday), will be my last day in Terre Haute for at least months if not perhaps years. I intend to return now and then for events such as those put on by Theta Xi, my fraternity. Today, there were several people who I saw who I likely shall not see again for quite some time, perhaps ever.








  • Imani, my on-and-off girlfriend for much of my RH career

  • Greg, my former roommate and co-host of the 004 show

  • Andrew, my roommate of 3 years + 1 summer (though I will almost certainly see him tomorrow, afterward is far less certain)

  • Pretty much all of Theta Xi - Kappa Chapter (maybe next winter, we'll hope)









All of this has made me somewhat nostalgic and more than a little misty-eyed. I have enjoyed my time at Rose quite a bit and am very sad to leave it and all of my friends behind. Even now, most have scattered to the four winds, perhaps never to be seen again.







When I left highschool, I never particularly felt sad about leaving. I felt some apprehension about the new environment of college and "setting out on my own," but I was generally happy to be leaving Anderson and most of the people who were there. There were very few who I felt I would miss. At this parting, however, I find myself leaving behind people with whom I have a stronger attachment. This is not to say that I am not excited about going to California and joining JPL -- far from it -- I expect JPL to be one of the most exciting experiences of my life.







Perhaps the real difficulty that I am fearing is that of finding a new "in-group." For me at Rose, my group of friends generally consisted of my roommates, Imani, and (during my senior year when I joined) my fellow Theta Xis. When I arrive in California, I will have none of them, nor will I have any family withing 1000 miles. I will, for the first time, be truly on my own. I think that I can do alright, but I suppose I'll just have to dive in and see what happens.







Anybody know of any rocket scientist RPing groups in Pasadena? Perhaps that would be a good place to start...



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2007 May 14 peach


Guy Blade Guy Blade---17:02:00


ACEN 2007
So I went to Anime Central this weekend with the Rose-Hulman Anime Society. Acen is a yearly convention in Chicago where people from the "anime community" get together and do panels/watch anime/dress up/etc.



I hadn't gone last year as the year previous hadn't been very fun, but I found this year to be quite enjoyable. I went to a fair number of panels, got some free zombies, and bought a 1-up mushroom. All in all, a quite enjoyable event.



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2007 May 03 garnet


Guy Blade Guy Blade---19:40:00


Domain Registry of America
Since I was in high school, I have been the owner of several domain names. In total, I own about a dozen. Maintaining registration of a domain name is a rather simple affair, one just has to pay a registrar to renew it every year or renew in bulk for several years at a time. Today's irritation, however, comes from a company called Domain Registry of America (dmoa.com). I'm not linking it because I don't want my PageRank vote to go to them.

What DROA does is rather ingenious. Whenever a domain is about to expire, they send a letter to the technical contact of that domain name (real letter, post office-style) telling them that they need to renew and that they can do so by returning the simple form at the bottom of the page or going to their website and paying the $30 renewal fee. Of course, I have never had a domain registered through them, so what they are actually asking me to do is to perform a transfer to them. I find this whole thing to be insufferable because it does not matter how many times I tell them to remove me from their mailing lists, they still continue to send these to me. Today, I accused them of running a scam (which sending things that look very similar to bill might rightly be called), and got into an argument with their customer service person. I was told that I had to "back up what I say" if I was going to go "throwing acusations."

Essentially, the business model of this place seems to be to prey on people who do not understand how the DNS registration system works. These people are the ones most likely to accidentally begin transfers in response to such letters. I don't believe that switching registrars is ever something that one simply wants to get up and do because it often is somewhat time consuming to correctly configure a new registrar (I should know, I've changed registrars twice in the last year). Unfortunately, their business model must be working because I've been getting as many as 8 of these a year for the past 5 years.



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