Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Baseball season is officially here! Ok, it’s been here for a few weeks now, but it became official for me when I got to go to my first game of the season: the Lehigh Valley IronPigs vs. Syracuse Chiefs on Monday, April 19, 2010 at Coca-Cola Park. It was a close game, right up until … Read more
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/cDIzMGh94vo” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] I’ve had “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” by Weezer stuck in my head for the last week or so — so badly that I ended up buying the Raditude album just to get rid of the song. No dice: now I’ve … Read more
This is a random post of baseball happiness: In 10 days I’ll be at my first IronPigs game of the season. It feels my heart with geeky baseball joy to know I’ll soon be hearing the sound of baseballs hitting leather and bats slamming balls into the outfield. If you’re into baseball and want follow … Read more
I keep meaning to read the Halo universe books, particularly the original trilogy of books recounting the events of the first video game. It’s a compelling universe that’s only just barely been touched by the video games, and I’d love to delve deeper. When Amazon.com and Macmillan went to war over ebooks, and all of the … Read more
I set my GPG key to expire annually, which was all well and good until it actually expired and I found myself needing to renew it. I was able to renew the primary key by expiring it, but unfortunately this only expired the primary key; the subkey remained expired, which in turn meant my key … Read more
Here’s a few photos of College Hill after the storm. This is a shot of Porter Street, looking south. Our backyard transformed into a sort of winter candyland. The icicles of doom hanging over the alley between our house and that of our neighbor’s.
I’ve been having massive stability issues with Firefox 3.5/3.6 for the Mac for the last week or so, as Firefox got stuck in this crash-reboot-crash loop that I couldn’t break. My immediate fix was to launch Firefox in safe mode by holding down the [Option] key while clicking on the application icon (read the Firefox … Read more
I came across this video while testing the Anarchy media plugin in the latest version of WordPress. It reminds me of summer days, good friends and Shocktop beer at Coca-Cola Park… and that I really can’t wait for the baseball season to begin again. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/TLWw6M1nN_o” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]
Lafayette hosted Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V during the first week of January, and I have to say, I think it went pretty well. We got a lot of stuff done, including putting the finishing touches on two new tools for Moodle: Assignment ZIP (which allows you to download all of the files associated with an … Read more