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    Venting Drive Plasma

    by  • April 30, 2012. 10:36 pm • General, Nikky • 2 Comments

    I’ve been writ­ing a lot less than I’ve wanted to lately. And read­ing a lot less than I’ve wanted to. Not to men­tion gam­ing, phở­tograph­ing, trav­el­ling, hik­ing and explor­ing. Ruby? Yeah, I remem­ber I should be doing that too. Dat­ing has been stuck into assorted time slots, and often pushed aside com­pletely when more impor­tant things come into play. I’m run­ning into […]

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    Sunny Spring and Super Stuff

    by  • April 10, 2012. 9:23 pm • General, Nikky • 3 Comments

    I’m not feel­ing cre­ative This is shap­ing up to be one heck of a month, and I don’t feel like being cre­ative nor ver­bose. So we get to see one of my awe­some “throw things at the reader” posts that every­one loves! April will kill me Work is just super busy and filled with projects this month. I’ve known […]

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    Written Cacophony of Life

    by  • April 1, 2012. 9:43 pm • General, Nikky • 1 Comment

    2012-04-01 16.31.47

    Now pre­sent­ing a lim­ited edi­tion of “things Nikky wants to say with­out tak­ing a whole post dis­cussing each one.” Yayyyy. Wee Rex! I got a bunch of awe­some comics at Comi­Con yes­ter­day, but per­haps best of all, picked up this guy: Bat­tlestar Galac­tica (Re-imagined) Was a Dis­ap­point­ment I know this is doing to dis­ap­point some folks, and I’m sorry. But […]

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    Overlord Ruby

    by  • March 5, 2012. 6:07 pm • General, Nikky • 1 Comment

    Back­story Notwith­stand­ing my foray into TI-BASIC pro­gram­ming on my TI-83+, I got started with cod­ing in the glo­ri­ous lan­guage known as Perl. There’s no real par­tic­u­lar rea­son for this choice, other than that it seemed cooler than PHP at the time. With its eso­teric man­ner­isms and increas­ing lev­els of dis­use in a tech­no­log­i­cal cul­ture, I started shift­ing away […]

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    Unusually Moist in the Office Today

    by  • March 5, 2012. 9:18 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    2012-03-05 08.18.28

    Before going off to work today I checked my UW email and found the fol­low­ing notice from one of my fel­low con­sul­tants: A major water leak on C3 at the UW Tower is forc­ing the tem­po­rary move of Ser­vice Cen­ter (“help desk”) oper­a­tions to the 4545 ERC. I didn’t think too much of it at the time. […]

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    Historic Railroad Hike

    by  • February 20, 2012. 7:04 pm • General, Nikky, Travels • 2 Comments

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    Sean, Serene, and I went on a series of hikes this week­end to the Snohomish/Granite Falls area: Lime Kiln and Old Robe Canyon. The for­mer roughly fol­lowed an old rail­way grade, whereas the lat­ter closely traced the ruins of a rail­way aban­doned in the early 1930s as the own­ers finally gave up try­ing to main­tain it. For you […]

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