If you're a fan of Toothpaste for Dinner, I'd suggest you check out tooth_paste_din. Also, drew has a blog! at drewtoothpaste. He's my hero.

I'm going to Hawaii. Virtually everyone I've talked to has told me that it is the way to go. I feel like it's a rare opportunity that I've stumbled upon, and I'd regret it if I turned it down. Also, I think it opens more doors in terms of future career options, if I ever want to go to law school or business school. I was remarkably calm for ( Read more... )

I went to the bookstore today and bought So You Want To Live In Hawaii (decision is still pending though) and Florence of Arabia, which has been in the Atlantic for the past few issues ( Read more... )

I was on #dailykos on Efnet for a lot of the presidential debates, listening in on people's reactions. Hopping over to little green footballs, however, you'd think they were watching a completely different debate.

Personally, I thought Kerry wiped the floor with Bush, but I think the Bush spin machine is going to try and take the focus off Bush's ( Read more... )

In a fit of ... I'm not really sure what, I went and bought a PSOne, the re-branded re-packaged original Playstation. This puts me right along the technology curve at around 1997. I bought Final Fantasy 8 and Syphon Filter, which is kind of like Metal Gear Solid, I think. I have a lot of free time this semester and I figured this would be a good ( Read more... )

Well the interview in Chicago was okay. Not spectacular but I didn't fumble the ball either. I should find out the final decision on Friday or Monday, so here's hoping. I still need to talk about this with my parents and I'd like to get my sister's advice as well ( Read more... )

Wikipedia and Everything2 are great for those times when you remember random things you want to look up.

At a Microsoft talk I went to this summer, the speaker was talking about the design of hedonic interfaces, and briefly mentioned Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I jotted it down as something to look up later, and I just remembered it tonight. ( Read more... )

I have an interview next Monday with some bigwigs in Chicago for this Hawaii job. In general, interviews have never been my strong point, although I have been steadily improving just through practice and experience. I think my worst experience was a phone interview I had once, where I got into an argument with my interviewer over Brooks's Law. I ( Read more... )

"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.' Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent."The Justice Department is allowed to redact parts of the ACLU's ( Read more... )

This article in the New Yorker, entitled The Unpolitical Animal, presents the most depressing portrayal of American voters.

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It looks like the courses I'm taking this semester are:
CS 431 - Embedded Systems Architecture and Software
CS 475 - Formal Models of Computation
CS 598kgk - Social Computer Mediated CommunicationThe first two are ( Read more... )