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|  Spotted at the Sacramento Fry's Electronics.
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| 10% Fee increase already, now they're looking at 32% increases over the next two years - tuition breaking the $10,000 mark. Bad news for those of us outside the high white walls of Marin, eh Thomas?  I kid, of course, sorta. The part that confuses me is:"The fee revenue will be used to restore canceled courses that students need to graduate on time, to hire more faculty and being to address the issue or larger class services."
and"It'll also help us to restore some student services, such are more regular library hours."
I don't get how we need to restore canceled courses. Won't canceled courses result in adjusted undergraduate requirements? There's obviously a perilous disconnect between undergraduate committees and the real world if this is indeed the case. I also don't get the hiring more faculty part. Why are we hiring more faculty? Shouldn't we be trying to do more with less, and create a leaner operation that is far more valuable? In fact, shouldn't we be *gasp* firing people? As far as large class sizes go, I'm all for them. And if grading time and manpower is an issue, just switch over to scantrons - really, I wouldn't mind. And restore student services? Frankly, I'd be fine if they sold off the gym, unitrans, and all of the CoHo and Silo. Really, I hardly believe that these tuition hikes are a "last resort".But maybe I'm wrong. This is, after all, a system-wide thing going on. If only you kids down in SD and Berk stopped spending my money. But if things are different where you are, or here, hell, I'd love to hear it. Posted via email from original content | | |
| I guess some asian guys rice out their cars. I rice out my laptop and my bike. A flexy noisy keyboard is unacceptable, especially under the Thinkpad brand! So I set out to remedy this issue myself.I'd say "shame on you lenovo", but being $800 cheaper then a similarly specced Macbook Pro, I can say the gains definitely outweigh the losses here. Plus the use cases are fundamentally different. A Macbook Pro is a luxury item. As with our cars and our bikes, we demand the very best from luxury items (especially if we're dropping top dollar on them). 
An older (or newer? who knows) T400 keyboard. It honestly doesn't look to bad. Holes, yes, but still pretty solid looking.
A T61 keyboard. Fits! And is definitely older than the other two. A great improvement over the original keyboard that came with my Thinkpad. The internal bracing added for the problematic keyboards really makes the T61 keyboard shine. 
New T400 keyboard (if I'm correct). This is what came with my Thinkpad. Note that the metal is thinner and is supplemented by a plastic sheet. Gain? Weight savings? Better cooling? Loss: Incredibly flexible keyboard that'll give way with little to no effort, especially on the left side. Really noisy too! Had an odd hollow sound when typing on the left side. I generally couldn't type in class or the library without a bunch of noise. Posted via email from jamestan | | |
| Peter and Thomas with ISA sun glasses.
 Thomas with a giant tub of frosting.
 Thomas with a giant tub of milk mix (yuk).
Damn you Panda Express! Dammn youuuu!
 Layne at the crappy Windows 7 event listening to crappy presenters.
 Why didn't I think of doing this?
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