The Design and Implementation of laffer1

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Thu, 24 May 2007

2:28 PM - My week in brief

On tuesday, I left at 8:38 which is 8 minutes later than I like to get to class.  With good traffic conditions, I can still make it ontime to EMU.  However,  a bus and a car decided that they wanted to occupy the same space.  It took me 50 minutes to go from exit 175 to exit 181 on I-94.  Obviously, I was late for class.  The best part was that after I got past the accident, traffic sped up for about half a mile and then stopped for no apparent reason.  I was not a happy camper.

Caryn just sent me an IM that says dell is going to sell computers at walmart.  They've sure turned into Gateway. 

Anyway, the air conditioning has been broken for several days.  Its very unpleasant in here.  Its been running about 78 degrees on average in the computer room.  stargazer is staying up OK, but my desktop isn't quite as good with air flow.  My iBook would be unusuable in these temperatures and the PowerMac is a bit touchy.  I'm happy to report that caryn's new box seems to handle it very well.  I'm just glad we don't have two "servers" going anymore.  Midnight and Henry are getting a little mad at me about the air conditioning.  Funny thing is they sit in the sunlight.  They are real smart cats. 

Monday I had my car in for one of the many repairs they recommended.  There is no way I can afford the head gasket repair right now.  The transmission is working better at least.  I hear this weird clicking sound sometimes that concerns me.  I really hate my car. 

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4:48 PM - Microsoft BOB

Microsoft Bob was a software application developed prior to the launch of Windows 95.  It is very similar in some regards to Packard Bell's Navigator software from that time period. 

This site has screenshots of BOB in action.
http://www.winhistory.de/index_ENG.html

There is also some information about different Windows releases, although much of the site is in german. 

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