Sean on October 31st, 2003

Many, many years ago, my older brother Patrick ran into my bedroom and yelled, “Wake up, Sean! Wake up!” He then slammed the door shut.
I saw that he was strangely excited and a little scared. I replied, “What is it?”
He said, “Just get over here and listen!”
I came over to the door, where he [...]

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Sean on October 29th, 2003

I’ve flashed a couple of x86 PCI video cards with their available Mac ROM’s and found out that they work with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). The video cards are:
* Matrox Millennium I PCI with 2MB RAM, and
* 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 PCI with 16MB RAM.
The Millenium is currently in the Beige G3 266 DT, [...]

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Sean on October 26th, 2003

1. Make flash cards with reactions (named and types), reactants, etc.
2. Study the flash cards backwards, forwards, and shuffled. This is to help you know the reactions by their names, and know the products formed from the reagents and starting materials involved.
3. Do the homework problems at least 3 to 5 [...]

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Sean on October 24th, 2003

I have a collection of computers that I accumulated over the years, most of which I have acquired since I moved to California for graduate school.
My wife uses a self-built AMD Athlon XP 2000+ system, on which she runs Windows XP Pro. She does a lot of graphics work and web site design. [...]

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Sean on October 24th, 2003

Why bother getting a Ph.D.?
Is graduate school really just a test of one’s endurance?
Is it everything it’s cracked up to be?
Why do scientists get all the cool chicks?

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