Saw this list of Twitter uses the other day; kudos to Olin for the top spot (though the list might be unranked) for the 3rd-Floor West Hall laundryroom Twitter agent. Anyone familiar with this know how it works? I don’t remember how the LaundryView system works, but if I recall correctly, there’s e-mail functionality. It’d [...]
Before I switched over to full time software development, I used to write functional specs for some of the applications at ATG. The most frustrating aspect of this wasn’t the text itself, since describing what happens when you click a button is pretty sweet, but being blocked waiting for the UI designer to update the [...]
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I was first exposed to Neil deGrasse Tyson a couple of weeks ago via this video on “stupid” design in which he argues that there can’t be a Creator if a Creator existed, it would have “unintelligent” among other attributes (see his comment below), since there’s a load of stuff out there (in the galaxy, [...]
Oliners past and present are good at many a thing: we’ve built K’Nex Computers, travelled to Antarctica, and started companies. But if there’s one thing we’re terrible at, it’s blogging, at least from the point of view of Planet Olin. In its heyday, PO was damn near close to required reading; during one of Olin’s [...]
This machine may be able to add more numbers, but it’s still not as good as the K’Nex Calculator:
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Sometime during my freshman year at Olin, the library called for submissions to create a list of 100 novels. In retrospect, I can’t recall why we felt we needed this list: lit readership was alive and well at Olin (thanks in no small part to Mel Chua), and with the Olin Library Community project (where [...]
Many people have asked me during the last four years *why* I chose to re-brand myself as Joe during my time at Olin. I usually responded with: Because of Adam “Iceman” Horton, the original Adam at Olin… *or* because Joe is my middle name…. or *because* Joe College is really silly, irreverent, and a throw-back [...]
