Advice for those applying for jobs at an academic institution:
Do not answer supplemental questions with content that you have taken verbatim from a Google search. There’s nothing wrong with doing some research to understand the field you’re getting in to, but credit the work or at least change some of the wording.
Michelle and I just joined a CSA called Organics to You in an attempt to improve our diets and to help encourage the ag boom in Oregon. Don’t get me wrong – Michelle and I eat very well – but it isn’t always the best for us. We’re especially weak in the fruit/veggie section of the Pyramid.
Oddly enough, Michelle and I are 80% vegetarian, but we’re doing a poor job of actually getting the raw fruits and veggies. So here’s the challenge. We’re starting with a “Bin for one” and intend to eat all of it before the next bin arrives two weeks later. So far, things look good, and we’re pretty excited about the challenge.
I won tickets to last Friday’s Blazers v. Sonics game. Michelle and I went figuring “how bad can it be? It’s free!” Well, it was pretty bad. It was my first NBA game and I admit that seeing the Globetrotters back in middle school set the bar pretty high. I’ll also admit that I went in to it hoping the Sonics would win. I’m not sure why, but I felt a greater sense of loyalty to them. Needless to say, when we left at the end of the third period $40 poorer, I had picked the winning team.
Here’s a couple things I noticed.
Late? Maybe. Done? Finally. Our 2005 Opt-in Christmas card.
I spotted a link to Wayfaring from Urban Cartography. Looks like a lot of fun, but I think I’m mostly enamored with the page design itself. Lovely.
Also, Google Maps & Trimet launched a Transit project that seems less intuitive and functional than Trimet’s own route finder. The benefit is a visual map, I guess. I found the interface didn’t work when scrolling up and down.
Next? I hear there’s a MacOSX version of Google Earth coming. Woohoo!
Last night I was in the GIS lab until 1am putting together my GIS project writeup. Althought I could have finished earlier, I chose to screw around like my days in undergrad. ICQ with whoever happened to be online, trying to post to my blog (Yeah, I know – service sucks lately), and checking e-mail. It was kind of fun, but most of the group was rather somber. Ah, finals.
Michelle just read over my writeup and had to remind me that no matter how casual the class and assignment may be, it isn’t acceptible to use contractions. Also, stop writing like it’s a blog entry because it’s a graded assignment.
I just found a damp $5 bill on Killingsworth while walking Barley. Aside from the GPS crap, things are looking up.
I’ve poured over Trimble’s support material but there isn’t really anything that describes COM port conflict resolution besides “Turn off the application using the port.” Yeah, that helps.
Growing ever desperate, I backed up the unit and did a hard reset. This removed TerraSync (uh-oh) and failed to resolve the GPS/PocketPC connection problem, so I restored the backup (whew).
What I don’t get is how to restart the GPS service without being connected to it. A hard restart didn’t help, and there’s no way to communicate with the device with the COM3 conflict. I guess I’ll head in to the lab and see if there are any other experience-hardened individuals there who know how to fix this. Or maybe let me use a different unit.
Every time I’ve used a GPS unit this term there have been problems. The nature of the problems vary, but generally, they stem from a number of issues:
Instead of being halfway done with my survey I’m scouring Trimble’s website for help with determining why COM3 is in use by some phantom program that isn’t in the task list and why the GPS won’t connect to the PocketPC. I wish I’d been given one of the Geo3 units. They at least work consistently.