It was a striking resemblance of popular British graffiti artist Banksy, namely something like this photo from hometownzero's flickr page.
I was walking through the parking structure and saw this on one of the posts:
So now I'm convinced we have a Banksy protégé running around Chico State.
If anybody finds any more banksy-esque graffiti on campus, post a comment or tag it on flickr!
Update!
Right you are, Stassia. Here's two more pandas found on campus. Anyone else?
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BLOGGERID: 2342203940442344408 -------- TITLE: gmail on campus AUTHOR: david DATE: 4/11/2007 08:59:00 AM ----- BODY: As a CSU, Chico student, I can safely say that I really hate our on-campus email (Wildcat mail?) Every teacher says it's the "official" method of communication on campus; if a test date is changed, they expect us to check our email to find out. Our email, which is constantly bombarded by spam that is rarely ever caught by the spam filter, is available to us via POP3 and through the web by - you guessed it - a mostly-default install of squrrelmail. Don't get me wrong, I love squrrelmail, but for 14,000 users on campus, it's just not cutting it like it should. I saw a post on the google blog about putting gmail (by way of google apps) on campus. I encourage you to Take The Survey for your school (especailly if you attent CSUC as I do!) so we can compile some statistics about how many students are dissatisfied with our current system. Spread the word!Labels: school
BLOGGERID: 7704273899202531129 -------- TITLE: unix inode fun! AUTHOR: david DATE: 3/10/2007 03:42:00 PM ----- BODY: If you have talked to me about school recently, you probably know that I am working on writing a "mickey mouse" file system for my Operating Systems Programming class (CSCI 340). We are supposed to allot a section of memory on the computer and turn it in to a working file system we can manipulate with all of our favorite UNIX commands like ls, mkdir, touch, rmdir, rm, etc... It's pretty involvled, and there's a lot of lower-level stuff I'm learning (like managing actual bits instead of variables). Anyway, I'm working on the structure of this beast, and I started doing research on how much information is stored in a file's iNode. An iNode is what defines an actual file in a *nix file system (like OSX). It contains information like the permissions, creation date, and file length, as well as pointers to the actual data on the disk. If it is a directory (in *nix, directories are files... weird, huh?), the iNode contains information about its children. So this is really interesting stuff. The best part about this project is that it's been done before - in the unix file system! Since I work on a mac, I can easily drop in to a terminal and see the real deal! I quickly learned a few of the FS basics. Entering-i as a parameter for the ls command shows the normal stuff, as well as a files inode number.
neptune:/ dave$ ls -i /
22 drwxr-xr-x 125 dave dave 4250 Mar 10 11:39 Applications
474198 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 54272 Mar 10 09:55 Desktop DB
474199 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 138194 Oct 17 20:18 Desktop DF
530660 drwxrwxr-x 16 root admin 544 Jan 8 12:37 Developer
2801 drwxrwxr-t 54 root admin 1836 Dec 7 19:07 Library
3 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Mar 10 15:56 Network
3013 drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Dec 30 13:14 System
26753 drwxrwxr-t 6 root admin 204 Oct 30 12:58 Users
1526179 -rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave 0 Mar 2 20:47 Utilities
10985 drwxrwxrwt 9 root admin 306 Mar 10 11:39 Volumes
475038 drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 Jul 28 2006 automount
2755 drwxr-xr-x 40 root wheel 1360 Oct 7 19:59 bin
28483 drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 Jan 13 2006 cores
2 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 9 23:21 dev
Next, I found that the unix command stat displays all the information you could ever want about a file. I found the -x option the most useful, as it has a verbose output so you can figure out what all the numbers mean.
neptune:/ dave$ stat -x ~
File: "/Users/dave"
Size: 1292 FileType: Directory
Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 501/ dave) Gid: ( 501/ dave)
Device: 14,2 Inode: 474787 Links: 38
Access: Sat Mar 10 15:32:11 2007
Modify: Sat Mar 10 14:26:33 2007
Change: Sat Mar 10 14:26:33 2007
Another fun one is the find command. I learned that you can find a file based on it's iNode number. Look at this:
neptune:~ dave$ find / -inum 1337
/Applications/Utilities/Installer.app/Contents/PlugIns/Introduction.bundle/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/Default.rtf
So now I know what file has iNode number 1337.
There's tons more I'm learning, but I guess I have to know it all inside and out if I'm going to write my own version of it by May 7th :P
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TITLE: college books
AUTHOR: david
DATE: 1/22/2007 03:18:00 PM
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BODY:
Today marked the start of my 6th semester here at CSU, Chico. I'm well into the Computer Science program, and thought I was moving up in the ranks, you know, the BMOC.
I went to the bookstore to complete the painful ritual known as "buying books" this afternoon. I'm used to the vicious cycle of buying a book for a hundred, two hundred, sometimes more dollars, then selling it back for 20% of what I bought it for and thinking that it's a deal.
Not today. After picking up my books for Physics and Programming Languages, I looked up the book for my Operating Systems Programming class. I didn't know how to feel.
You tell me:
Seriously? No, really, I'm in a UNIVERSITY taking a THIRD YEAR LEVEL course!
wtf? I thought Littlefoot and The Land Before Time was cool as a kid, but that was over a decade ago (even if they are still coming out, with #13 slated for next month).
I bought my other books, but couldn't bring myself to spend almost a hundred dollars on a book with that cover. If my teacher asks, I will buy it, of course, but shit. Look at it. Do I really think it's got a cover that can grace my O'reilly filled bookcase?Labels: school
BLOGGERID: 3355440546149394418 -------- TITLE: rusty mills AUTHOR: david DATE: 12/04/2006 08:28:00 PM ----- BODY: Earlier this year, Chuck Harvey gave a lecture on campus about life and work as an animator at Disney and Warner Studios. Well, the series continued this afternoon with Rusty Mills giving a great talk about his work directing over 100 episodes of Animaniacs and 65 episodes of Pinky and the Brain. He also talked about the animation process from inception to final product, as well as the move from hand-drawn cell animations to a fully digital workflow in respect to 2D animation. I'm sure glad I'm on the computer side of the issue on this one :) But much to my disappointment, no steak dinner followed :( BLOGGERID: 5032305072244785954 -------- TITLE: school spirit AUTHOR: david DATE: 11/30/2006 01:01:00 PM ----- BODY: It was almost exactly one year ago when I went off on a rant about chico and what it means to be a Chico State student. Everything I wrote then still holds true. I was reminded of it just now when I was walking on campus in front of the Library. I was stopped by a guy holding a clipboard, and he asked if I had been to a CSU, Chico sporting event this semester (which is just a couple weeks from ending). Without missing a beat or step, I said "nope" and gave him a smile. Before I was out of earshot, I turned around and half-jokingly said "I went here for a year and a half before I knew we were the 'wildcats'". He laughed and made a scribble on his pad. I continued on to my destination (a coffee shop on campus with free wifi), and not two minutes later, my new clipboard-bearing friend shows up and says "not to be a stalker or anything, but I really liked that quote, can I get your name?" I told him my first name and what year I am, noting that it would be embarrassing to have a quote like that attributed to my name (our campus ID cards are called "Wildcat Cards" after all) I don't know if he'll use it or not, but regardless, I can't wait to read whatever he writes :) BLOGGERID: 820357122941750563 --------