Mustard Hamsters

Here’s a little tidbit from the design class I took this semester:
Programming Posters

These three posters are designed for my Communications Design Fundamentals final project, and are meant to get middle school students interested in programming. The Master Your Technology poster I put here was my original idea for the posters. The person there is made out of the jQuery library’s code.

I bought a server from a friend. It’s a long story, and it’s a big server. It’s ancient, and dusty, but it was cheap, powerful, and I can put it in a room by itself and not feel bad about not using it for anything else. I named it Mingus, because he was physically the largest jazz musician I could think of. Most importantly, I’ve spent the last couple weeks huddled in a server closet with it, stroking it and praying it will start to work and stop hiccuping and barfing all over the place.

Well, now it works about as well as I can hope it to. I even bought the domain deanputney.org for it. I don’t promise that there’s anything on there right now, you might just get a blank page sometimes, but I do own the domain, and it does point to my very own server.

Thanks so much to all those who have helped me with this project. It’s been fun trying to get this to work, and I’m glad that I didn’t give up.

You’re going to say “Dean, I had given up on your little History thing. I thought it was one of your brief spurts of posts, followed by inevitable hiatus.” Well, I thought so too. Apparently my history saves all the way back into October though, so lucky you!

CIA + Yahoo LAN Party!
Herb and Dorothy
Jimmy Carter Attacked by a Rabbit
Save Colby’s Clubhouse!
Treehouse of Horror #19
2 Skinnee J’s
Waxy.org For some reason, I clicked on the link to send this gentleman a message on AIM. I really don’t know anything about him personally, but I had a very pleasant conversation with him.
MC Hammer
Angry Erotic Sheep in the Woods Not what you think.
Doom
Vampire Megabyte
GEO. METRO. Got my homies in the back yo.
Portal Prelude
Yokoo
Chris Harrison I found him through Hackaday, and considered sending him an email. A day later my aunt found him through a Christian website because of his visualization of the bible and sent it along to me. Neat.
LIFE Jam Session
bash.org Yeah, I just discovered it. Oh well.

Michael Larson Beating the system
Famous Spin Battle
Pop Pop
Congregar
Living Wage Calculator
Pan’s Labyrinth Interview
Scooters!

I missed yesterday because I was intensely busy fixing my server and buying bags of tortilla chips the size of my torso. Here’s yesterday’s history too, it’s just a little older:

Maru the Cat
Up
FusionCharts
Piaggio
Berkeley Innovation
Contracts
Hole
Cryptosporidium
Mustaches
Bikes
Photostream
Power Supply
Puppies
Groo
Pilot