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I moderate the subreddit /r/PearlsBeforeSwine, and there are a bunch of posts from people trying to track down a specific comic from the past.

For my CS52 final project, our group worked on a web application called "GamePlan".

A while ago, I wanted to look at some statistics for one of the GroupMe's that I was in.

I store a lot of movies on one of my external hard drives, from DVDs in my home that I've ripped for use while at college.

My dad has always really liked dogs.

I was recently in Newark International Airport, who is one of the select few airports that I regularly fly through that doesn't have complimentary WiFi.

I was recently flying down to Cancún for my winter break, and I was doing one of the Sudoku puzzles they have in the back of the in-flight magazine.

In Part I, I talked about the five major categories of game, which I dubbed endless, leveled, RTS, endless leveled, and personal competition.

There are over 1,000 apps submitted to the App Store every day.[1] With all of these apps, making a game that stands out is pretty difficult.

Well, at long last, What's Line is done!

So I had a rough prototype of the game set up, but there were a few problems: the game was pretty laggy, the whole thing happened in DOM, and opening the game on multiple PC's would desync the fish's location.

A brief writeup on my foray into NodeJS, Socket.IO, and more with Sardines!

Just a quick progress update on What's Line.

One of my best friends siblings was in a poll competition on a popular blog.

About a week ago, I noticed that someone had posted on the subreddit /r/Jailbreak asking for a tweak.

I have a jailbroken iPhone, and I wanted to add an Activator Event for a wrong passcode, so that entering '0000' would send a text message.

Finally started working on the iOS version.

A developer license for Apple costs $100.

A good way to reorganize the chaos that is Banner is to sort all of the links into the main purposes.

There are a bunch of changes that I made to Anchor to fix or implement features.

This blog uses the very lightweight CMS Anchor.

I'm now finally starting to get back into working on What's Line?

I write a bunch of quick Python programs that interact with Banner.

Finally summer break, and I'm done with my freshman year.

Right after I made the post I got in contact with the school in regards to fixing it.

This is just a quick update on where DartmouthRoomSearch is.

There's a security problem with Banner.

I recently got my USB adapter for the Kinect in the mail.

Using an XBox One Kinect and the adapter for USB, you should be able to take a mapping and use the SDK to make a 3D model of you.

There's a fantastic book called Snow Crash written by Neal Stephenson.

The first part of solving a problem is clearly defining it.

Weirdly, there's no vector graphic or even large version of the Lone Pine logo at Dartmouth.

Whelp, the laundry swipers aren't working.

Alright, fantastic 3AM/avoiding essay app idea.

I picked up the domain for 9 bucks and transferred the website to there. dartmouth.alexbeals.com redirects there now.

I quickly did some visuals, and ended up with this 'passable' work: It worked, to be sure...but it didn't look GOOD.

I had all of the data, and I had it in an easily searchable MySQL database.

I realized two days ago that there wasn't at all a good way to find rooms that fit your desires for upperclassmen housing.

For the Dartmouth Redesign, I wanted a way to turn the DiD (a seven character alphanumeric that identifies you) into an attractive QR code.

Now, I've done a fair amount of work in regards to the Dartmouth ID, but mainly in terms of duplicating/replicating it.

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Dartmouth currently uses an Ellucian product called Banner for the 'Student Information System'.

The way that I use my router is basically as an ethernet splitter, and to make my own wifi signal.

The site where you can get information on meal swipes and that information has transferred from ManageMyID to CBORD's GET, along with the laundry machines.

It seems like it would be pretty easy to make the ID's.

Some of the things stated in the Dartmouth article I cited in the Dartmouth ID post weren't entirely accurate: it's not a 125kHz RFID tag in it, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

The app "The Ropes" for Dartmouth displays the swipes remaining and DBA on your account if given your ManageMyID information.

I was researching some aspects of RFID technology, when I wondered how the Dartmouth ID cards worked.

Finally got around to buying some ethernet cables from The Computer Store.

Got the network set up.