• Posts Tagged ‘UW’

    IMAP Creator vs. UW: The Hidden Tale?

    by  • June 20, 2009. 12:00 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    From: [redacted] To: Alpine-info <Alpine-info@u.washington.edu> Sub­ject: [Alpine-info] The saga of Sir Crispin vs the UW (maybe) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:14:58 –0600 (MDT) Sender: alpine-info-bounces@mailman2.u.washington.edu User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23) I was read­ing a Slash­dot RSS arti­cle enti­tled “Extract­ing Mean­ing From Mil­lions of Pages” which turns out to be about Googles con­tri­bu­tion to […]

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    Mythological Battle for uw.edu

    by  • June 19, 2009. 11:57 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    As seen on the tech-support mail­ing list: uw.edu? [redacted] Thu Jun 18 22:18:53 PDT 2009 Once upon a time, there was waged a great bat­tle between Edu­cause and (then) C&C, the result of which was the acqui­si­tion of uw.edu. There was much hem­ming & haw­ing and mad twin­kles in mad eyes. Win this one vic­tory, it […]

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    Concrete Bench

    by  • October 26, 2008. 7:18 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    The lawn in front of the old­est build­ing on cam­pus con­tains grey­ing con­crete benches of old. Slowly erod­ing away and sink­ing into the Earth, the smat­ter­ing of benches on the hill might resem­ble tomb­stones to a dis­tant eye. A weary stu­dent might take a break on one of these moss encrusted relics. Per­haps look­ing around, they might spot […]

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    “Huskies for Israel” = “Tree Killers”

    by  • October 8, 2008. 3:45 pm • General, Nikky, Wall of Shame • 0 Comments

    So the geniuses at the group “Huskies for Israel” seem to be blan­ket­ing the cam­pus with their fly­ers, which I don’t really have a prob­lem with. Until I noticed two of the price­less cherry trees on the Quad. Cov­ered with lit­tle blue 4“x5.5″ fly­ers. That are sta­pled to the trunks. I’ll repeat that. Sta­pled to the trunks. What a bunch […]

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