Advogato: Personal info for saul

saul is currently certified at Apprentice level.

Name: Saul B
Member since: 2004-05-26 20:44:43
Last Login: 2007-10-04 05:39:05

Notes:
I'm a 20 year old U of Waterloo Student. I'm in the middle of getting Math degree with Comp Sci Honours.

My pet projects (which right now aren't getting enough attention) are: PhotoReider and a Python based XML-RPC client for both advogato and LiveJournal (this project needs a name)

Things I find interesting:

Well designed Software
Rapid Prototyping
Philosophy
Pop Culture

Things I like:

Comedy
Cartoons (the more off beat the better)
Sci-fi

Note: Please excuse my horrible spelling and grammar

My more updated journal is here

At this point I am in: Limbo

Projects

Lead Developer on Photoreider
Lead Developer on pytrips
Contributor on The Universe
Contributor on WvStreams

Recent blog entries by saul

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18 Apr 2008 »

Dear Phone Scamming Jerks

Dear Phone Scamming Jerks,

I'm not sure how your scam works but I'm not interested.

Please stop calling me.

Sincerely
- Saul

PS, you're a jerk.

Syndicated 2008-04-18 05:34:14 from Saul's Blog

8 Mar 2008 (updated 9 Mar 2008 at 00:08 UTC) »

Bike almost stolen

So my bike was almost stolen again

I left it at the Palo Alto Caltrain station locked to a tree and when I came back the lock was cut open.

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The weird part is my bike was still there seemingly untouched. I guess the would be thief got interrupted.

Note to the reader, this is a different bike then the one that was almost stolen in waterloo, but it's of the same "quality". I guess the fact that people are "almost stealing" rather then full out stealing my bike is a good thing.

Syndicated 2008-03-08 09:48:26 (Updated 2008-03-08 23:36:42) from Saul's Blog

28 Nov 2007 »

Free Public WiFi

I always see these "Free Public Wifi" Ad-hoc networks around and just assumed they were infected machines. It would seem they are actually a mix between windows being extra crazy and people being gullible.

Details: http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/09/free_public_wif.html

Syndicated 2007-11-27 23:29:17 from Saul's Blog

13 Oct 2007 »

Dr. Robert W. Bussard

Dr Bussard died :(

I had the chance to see his talk when I interned at Google, and then had the great privilege to have dinner and talk to him. He was an amazing man, very spry for a 79 year old. I'll never forget when he told us "If you've never had the experience of seeing a nuclear blast in person, it's transcendent." (I'm paraphrasing) Just hearing him talk about the the early days of nuclear research was just so interesting, I now wish I had recorded the conversation.

He was an amazing man.

Update: It would seem David had the same impressions

Syndicated 2007-10-13 05:55:11 from Saul's Blog

3 Oct 2007 »

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day Ye Scurvy Dogs