I just wanted to make a quick post sharing the good news. If you’re a student with a .edu email address, you’re eligible for a free year of Amazon Prime! I just signed up, and the process was very quick. I don’t think any strings are attached… just to be safe you might set up a reminder in your calendar a year from now to check and make sure there is no auto-renewal.
For those of you who like to buy books online instead of in overpriced college bookstores, make sure you take advantage of this. Free 2-day shipping and more? Heck ya. Keep in mind that this won’t include all 3rd party sellers that just post on Amazon. Hard to beat free, though. Enjoy!
Free Year of Amazon Prime for Students — Click Here!
Not too long ago, Google introduced a pretty neat phone/voicemail service called Google Voice. Signing up for the service provides you with a single phone number that can be linked to multiple phones (home, cell, work), allows for free text messaging, provides discounted long-distance calls, offers voicemail transcriptions (as text messages), and so much more… all for the wonderful price of FREE. I don’t utilize all the features, but I do like the option of managing voicemail online.
(Picture courtesy of c3e3)
Google Voice is still in beta, and invitations have become a bit difficult inconvenient to come by as of late. I have seen/received several comments saying that invites were not being sent out as frequently by Google. However, good news has arrived! Google just announced yesterday that they are rolling out invites for all students! Read more…
Some fellow students of mine at the Ohio State University participated in a “flash mob” the other day at the Ohio Union, our new student union. I missed this by literally a few minutes. I went in to get tickets for something around 12:30pm. I thought there were an odd number of people just standing around doing “nothing.” Kinda disappointed I missed it.
FYI: The guy walking with Brutus near the end is Gordon Gee, our school president.
Check it out! (Note: To view higher quality, click the video to be transferred to YouTube.)
Music is the Glee cover of “Don’t Stop Believing.”
Categories: YouTube, humor, music, school, video Tags: Brutus, Don’t Stop Believing, Flash Mob, Glee, Gordon Gee, Improv Everywhere, Journey, OSU, The Ohio Union
I was working on a parser for a programming project a few weeks ago for school in which reading an input file one character at a time proved to be the easiest route to take. While I found a few different resources online that provided some guidance, but I ran into a somewhat unexpected problem that was difficult to debug regarding detecting the end of stream (EOS)/end of file. This solution is not earth shattering (pretty intuitive actually), but I would have liked to have read something similar to this beforehand. It would have saved me a bit of time. Read more…
I was recently contacted by a guy, Gleb Lisichkin, who is an independent music promoter from Moscow. He provided me with a link and permission to distribute (free of charge!) the first release of an upcoming indie rock Russian band (English lyrics) that goes by the name “Cheese People.”
I’m not going to lie. I was pretty skeptical at first. Quality music usually doesn’t just fall in your lap. I was pleasantly surprised though. The music is a little different – more along the techno rock lines – but it’s pretty fresh. Cheese People have put together some pretty catchy tuneage. My housemate Steve is usually into the latest techno artists, and this album received the “Steve Stamp of Approval.” I haven’t taken a good listen to the lyrics… so I can’t make any comments on that content. We’re all adults here, right? Make your own decision 
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