Jesse Mullan

Burrito Loco

Written on Friday, the 15^th of October, 2004 at 11:06 am and was filed under: Diversions, Food

What’s the URL for Burrito Loco in Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota?

There’s your answer.

New Cake CD

Written on Tuesday, the 5^th of October, 2004 at 11:28 pm and was filed under: Diversions, Music

I finally received the new Cake CD in the mail today. It is festooned with the new FBI anti-piracy logo. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I couldn’t help laughing.

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Tengo sueÃ±o

Written on Thursday, the 30^th of September, 2004 at 2:01 am and was filed under: Diversions, Me, Food

I’m freakin’ tired.

This week I have been leaving for campus between nine and ten, and arriving at home between nine and ten. That’s a long time, especially considering that I haven’t been packing lunch in advance or anything - I’m basically there for three meal’s worth of time, or at least one. Okay, two, but I’ve just been have a quick slice of pizza from downstairs in the Coffman Union. Surprisingly good, but one slice and a bottle of juice for $5 seems like a little much to me. That’s the price of convenience.

Also, my backpack is like 500 pounds when fully laden, which is always. It’s my anti-freshman fifteen policy. So far, so good.

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A new NEW job

Written on Tuesday, the 28^th of September, 2004 at 12:07 am and was filed under: Uncategorized, Nerdity

Though the weather outside is frightful… Oh! Wait, I mean, the weather outside is beautiful, and I was up at the crack of nine to go into my new place of employment.

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Not as important?

Written on Friday, the 10^th of September, 2004 at 6:02 am and was filed under: Me

Oh yeah, I'm back in school.

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New Server!

Written on Friday, the 10^th of September, 2004 at 5:49 am and was filed under: Diversions

Hey, I finally got around to moving this site onto a newer, faster server. Awesome!

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Mojibake

Written on Monday, the 23^rd of August, 2004 at 3:59 am and was filed under: Nerdity, Speaking in Tongues

What happens when you try to display text encoded in one character set in another character set? Garbage characters. I'm working on a migration module for gallery - to upgrade from one type of data storage to a completely different one. Along the way I keep learning about character sets and character set conversion. Here's a lovely set of words for something that I would rather not see - garbled, junky international text.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: (paraphrased)

Mojibake

文字化け: [mojibake] moji: character + bake: change/ghost.

亂碼 or 乱码: [luan4 ma3] “chaotic code(s)”, in Chinese.

крокозябра [krokozyabry]: The Russian term for mangled characters.