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University of Waterloo Bookstore violates Visa merchant guidelines

Those of you who know me or read this site will understand that I have very strong feelings about how financial and credit card transactions are supposed to work. Today I attempted to purchase a textbook for SCI 205, Physics of High Fidelity Sound Reproduction. Apparently the original book used for the course is out [...]

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So, what exactly happened Friday night?

This is an accurate representation of our kitchen area circa Saturday morning at about 10am. Anyone walking in and viewing this scene would probably wonder just what exactly transpired.
For the past week or so, my roommates and friends have been in exam mode. I’ve been spared the same indignity this fall, since I’m presently on [...]

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Light snow, eh?

And so it begins. Should be an interesting next few months.

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Rrrrroundup of school, work and hardware upgrades

And here’s the wrapup.

Spring 2008 term has officially ended. For the past few days I’ve been trying to relax; as opposed to creating content for the Web, there’s been a lot of Halo 3 and other video games going on.
I start again at RIM on September 2nd. Things haven’t changed much from when I was [...]

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Judge Jake episode 4 online: Chuckles and Stereotypes

Judge Jake has been updated. In it, I get stuck behind some idiots professing their love for HARDCORE anime at Waterloo. Also, idiot gets owned for not declaring his merchandise at the border.
Feel free to grab the MP3 file or subscribe to the RSS feed.

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Considering UWaterloo? Consider the following conversation.

As I’m exiting my economics lecture this evening, I had the misfortune to overhear a conversation between two students leaving ahead of me. I didn’t make any special attempt to listen until the conversation took an unmistakably horrible trainwreck. Keep in mind that this is an economics lecture, and not a computer science or math [...]

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Moving out in a month, this time for real

It’s notable how the tone of this site has changed recently. Most of my posts lately are about the wireless industry in Canada, or other hot button topics that I can rant about without giving a personal view of the situation – apart from being a CS student with clearly too many cell phones, today’s [...]

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High-res satellite imagery of Waterloo Region now available

From the UWaterloo LiveJournal community:
Google Maps and Google Earth apparently now both have high-res (the closest zoom level) images of Waterloo Region. The comments thread seems to indicate that the images were taken last year, sometime in the spring.

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