Andrew Ferguson

Colophon

Howdy, I’m Andrew Ferguson and you’ve reached my website. I’m Seattleite, a born and raised. I went out of state to attend The Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado where I graduated in May 2009 with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering with a Specialty in Electrical Systems and an Area of Special Interest in Mechanical Systems. But now I’m back, and gainfully employed by an aerospace company that rhymes with “snowing” where I do cool things and help save the world. I’m attached to no one (i.e. single, but looking).

I’ve enjoyed a presence on the web for many years now with both email (4th grade, 1995) and a website (5th grade, 1996). My space has taken on many different forms and many different names over the years, from Tripod, to XOOM, to Geocities, to hosting my own site, to now having it professionally hosted for me, it’s been known over the years as Andrew’s Web Site, Starbase 156, and now Andrew Ferguson dot NET. No matter what, I’ve always enjoyed having this little spot.

Pertinent facts you might want to know and commit to memory:

• I hate using all forms of Internet slang, save abbreviations. Okay: LOL, LMAO, AFAIK, etc. Not okay: u, 2, b4, ur, etc.
• I don’t like having conversations on text message, unless absolutely necessary (i.e. one of us actually can’t talk). If I suspect a text message will lead to a text conversation, I will call you.
• If you’re thinking about dating me, or just want to understand me better, I suggest you read The Nerd Handbook.
• You may also want to look over my personality profile…I’d still call it applicable 4 years later.
• Fill in the blank: “People who like _________ will love my blog!” Answer: random and passionate musings
• I listen to lots of public radio, both over-the-air and online. I particularly enjoy: This American Life and Radio Lab. Although really anything NPR will do. And Too Beautiful to Live.
• When I listen to music, it’s usually: U2, The Beatles, Queen, Dave Matthews, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Radiohead, The Who, Panic at the Disco, Miles Davis, Chicago, Cake, or something classical.
• I’ve watched every single episode and movie from the Star Trek franchise; yes, even the animated series. Yes, this scares me. Yes, I promise to never to do it again.
• I’ve also watched every single episode of Sports Night, The West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
• I don’t watch South Park.

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Reader's Comments

1. aRmAn | February 8th, 2006 at 1:59 am

   hi,

   can you please enumerate with me what are the plugins that you used in your site.

   thanks a lot.

   aRmAn

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2. Andrew Ferguson | February 9th, 2006 at 2:23 pm

   A list of all plugins used can be found at:
   http://www.andrewferguson.net/colophon/about-afdn/plugins-used/

   Note: updated link

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3. CrazyBarbour | February 9th, 2006 at 2:49 pm

   I am intrigued about the plugin “Thumbnail”! There is no description, very mysterious. Altho we can figure out what we it does tho

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4. Andrew Ferguson | February 9th, 2006 at 6:41 pm

   “Thumbnail” is a plugin that I use internally to display the thumbnails on posts. I may release it at some point….

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5. CrazyBarbour | February 10th, 2006 at 5:34 am

   I thought so…. nice plugin indeed

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6. JHan | April 6th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

   So I was bored at work and browsing your site much more in depth than I usually do. I came across your page, and thought you might want to update it since you are 21 now… And there is no mention of your new kitty.

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7. Andrew Ferguson | April 6th, 2007 at 10:50 pm

   One of the great things about WordPress is that it tracks when you last updated a page or post. For this page, the last time I updated it was 2005-12-27 5:29 pm

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8. Byron | January 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 pm

   Wow…code in comments. I’ve gotta try it out…how about the current time/date:

   echo date(DATE_RFC822);

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9. Byron | January 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 pm

   Ooops…yeah…I had an error in my code. Try again:

    echo date(DATE_RFC822); 

   That should work.

   BTW, enjoying the site, Andrew.

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   • Andrew Ferguson | January 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 am

     It’s doesn’t actually execute the code, it just formats it.

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     • Byron | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm

       Hey Andrew,
       Yea, I saw that. I wasn’t thinking real straight.

       Is that a plugin or something that does that? I’ve been looking for a better way to format code on my blog as well. My code looks atrocious, and I have a lot of it in places.

       Cheers!
       Byron

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       • Andrew Ferguson | January 3rd, 2009 at 10:47 pm

         Yes, it’s a plugin called SyntaxHighlighter: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/

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         • Byron | January 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 pm

           Ah…perfect. Thanks.
           BB

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