Volleyball: ABL (3) vs. Beach Buddies (0)

2005-03-02 00:00:00 -0500

: jduprey; March 2nd, 2005

Current Mood:: annoyed

We won, but we played horribly.

Dirt Cheap Laser Printer: The $100 Brother HL-2040

2005-03-01 00:00:00 -0500

: jduprey; March 1st, 2005

Current Mood:: satisfied

Sick of the highway robbery of ink jet cartridge prices, and dealing with a flakey HP 2000C ink jet printer, I decided to get a laser printer. I was planning to get a higher end consumer-grade laser printer - one with duplex printing, built in network print server, etc. However, a friend clued me in on the Brother HL-2040 monochrome laser printer. It was $150.00 at Staples with a $50.00 easy online rebate. I figured for $100.00, I couldn't go wrong. The toner that comes with it will only print about 1,500 pages. The regular $60 toner cartridge will print about 2,500 pages. The drum should last for 12,000 pages. This is way better than my ink jet. I seldom need color printing. When I want to print photo's I order online or take a CD to a Kodak photo kiosk. The print quality for text is very good and graphics is fair. It is very fast at printing 16-20 pages per minute depending on who you believe. This CNET review gives it a good rating. The hardest part was sharing it so that my wife's Windows laptop could access it from my Mac.

Apple Store at Eastview? Cool!

2005-03-01 00:00:00 -0500

: jduprey; March 1st, 2005

Current Mood:: happy

According to

matt_obscure it looks like Eastview Mall might get an Apple Store. Cool!

Basic Principles of Existentialism - LS 196, Spring 1992

2005-02-27 00:00:00 -0500

: jduprey; February 27th, 2005

Current Mood:: thoughtful

The following is from a hand out I received in my LS 196 class (spring 1992)- "Great [F'ing] Ideas (GFI) in Western Culture." I'm not being crass. Even the professors referred to the class as "GFI." God bless Professor Crichlow, my GFI professor. She was one of the few kind people I knew at Clarkson.

I'm posting this, because I think I might be a bit of an existentialist... at least today..

Marvin Perry, et al., Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, 3rd ed., vol. 11, p. 755.

Basic Principles of Existentialism

Reality defies ultimate comprehension; there are no timeless thoughts that exist independently of and prior to the individual human being.

Reason alone is not an adequate guide to living; people are more than thinking subjects who approach the world through critical analysis. They are also feeling and willing beings who must participate fully in life, who must experience existence directly, actively, passionate. Only in this way does one live wholly and authentically.

Thought must not be merely abstract speculation, but must have a bearing on life; it must be translated into deeds.

Human nature is problematic and paradoxical, not fixed or constant; each person is like no other. Self-realization comes when one affirms one's own uniqueness; one becomes less than human when one permits one's life to be determined by a mental outlook -- a set of rules and values -- imposed by others.

We are alone. The universe if indifferent to our expectations and needs, and death is ever stalking us. [Accept and we rid ourselves of some fears..]

We are free. It is in the act of choosing freely from among different possibilities that the individual shapes an authentic existence. There is a dynamic quality to human existence; the individual has the potential to become more than he or she is.

Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's Time - Shuffle Boil (Take 5)

The Scientist

2005-02-26 00:00:00 -0500

: jduprey; February 26th, 2005

Current Mood:: sad

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head - The Scientist

Come up to meet you,
Tell you I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are.

I had to find you,
Tell you I need you,
Tell you I set you apart.

Tell me your secrets,
And ask me your questions,
Oh, let's go back to the start.

Runnin' in circles,
Comin' up tails,
Its only science apart.

Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be this hard.
Oh, take me back to the start.

I was just guessing,
At numbers and figures,
Pulling the puzzles apart.

Questions of science,
Science and progress,
Do not speak as loud as my heart.

Tell me you love me,
Come back and haunt me,
Oh, when I rush to the start.

Runnin' in circles,
Chasin' tails,
Comin' back as we are.

Nobody said it was easy,
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be so hard.
I'm goin' back to the start.