Math Teacher Arrested

Math Teacher Arrested

Southern Pines, North Carolina

A former public school math teacher was arrested today at Moore County Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a slide rule, and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-gebra is a problem for us Rumsfeld said. "They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like x and y and refer to themselves as unknowns, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are three sides to every triangle."

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes!"

Thanks jethereal!

Animal Crossing: Friend code

Anyone else play Animal Crossing? My friend code is 2706-6065-1445 and I don't yet know what to do with it, but I will find out! :-P

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BTW, regarding the router, I had jethereal bring his laptop (Win XP) over and we couldn't get it online. I decided that was inconclusive - if it did get on solidly that would've proved the MacBook was at fault, however it not getting on could've been due to the router or due to us not knowing how to work XP. I don't have access to another free wireless network except at T$'s and I'm not there this weekend and visiting my parents next weekend, so I couldn't try my laptop elsewhere.

So I went to Staples and bought a new wireless router, with Staples' 14-day no-questions-asked return policy. It yakked during the installation, but installations don't seem to be my strong suit this weekend (had printer problems too), so I tried again and it worked. jethereal's laptop was gone by this time, but Dory stayed stable for quite a while, so I then instituted MAC address filtering, and then added my Nintendo DS to the network and all seems good now.

My conclusion: the old router (Linksys, 4-5 years old) had its wireless crap out. I may try complaining to them, but I'm sure it's past any warrantees. Out of curiousity, anyone else ever have a router die on them?

Frickin' A! Stupid thing just yakked out on me again. I'm getting really pissed off.

Apple Care: Wireless

So after complaining a bit ("How are you today?" "I'd be better if my computer were working." ... "You know, this MacBook was a replacement from YOU for one that wasn't working."), the friendly Apple Care guy talked me through power cycling my Motorolla modem for FIVE MINUTES. Apparently the stupid fuckers just need that long sometimes. It's working for now, but who knows if it'll stay that way.

Decision tree:
IF keeps working, THEN yay.
IF craps out again, THEN

Stick in install disk, restart holding D (or Option? or C?) for Apple Hardware test
Hit Apple-L or use menu to put into Loop Mode
Do Apple Hardware test for 2 hours or finds and error.

IF doesn't find error AND still not working, THEN go to line 20.

IF does find error, THEN

IF not fixable, THEN go to line 20.
IF fixable, do, THEN

IF keeps working, THEN yay.
IF fixing doesn't resolve THEN go to line 20.

Line 20: Apple store or call Apple Care for AirPort card replacement (no longer user servicable).

*grumble* That's actually a lot clearer in my head than on paper.

PS: I now know the Apple Care call center secrets. Although there is a call center in India, for the most part US calls are routed to the Canada call center (where my person was) and the Canadian calls are routed to the US call center. Why? Because that way on most holidays we still have people to take our calls. He said they're closed tomorrow though, so either all of Apple Care's closed, or that's a good day for them to route us to India.