Ohhh man.  Two weeks left in term, and I have a ridiculous amount of work to do.  The plan was to come home, and keep working on things that are due instead of just my upcoming conference stuff.  But instead I came home to

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Well, last day of footy today, and we successfully defended our 3rd place finish.  I got an assist, and Mike another goal!  And it snowed!  I'm going to miss it, but it is too bloody cold now to be outside ( Read more... )

Well, this year's Hallowe'en was interesting.  Mike made a costume for the first time since we've met, and it was a huge hit!  I on the other hand opted for a pun costume that was a total bust... the only people that thought it was funny were Mike and my mother.  I even got a told by a guy dressed as a seaman who was making puntastic use of the ( Read more... )

"Girls don't really understand the complications of external genitalia which is illustrated by the knee-high kicking technique many use in soccer."

hahahaha, it's true. 

second soccer game tonight.  score: 3:3.  I scored the first goal on our side to negate a possible shutout (3:1) and then in the last 3 minutes, another fellow, Simon put in two more to tie it up (i got an assist on the last one ( Read more... )

Did some work in Octave today (open source matlab).  Got 3/4 of the way to my goal with a very inefficient solution, and then Mike helped me learn about different operators to reduce it by 2/3 of the number of lines ( Read more... )

Got this in my email today:

Looks fine but you forgot that S in the firt line :)

no jokes!

My last first day of undergrad!  Except for second semester first day of undergrad if you want to count that ( Read more... )

Things are going well in the lab (I'm still short HF, but only by less than a litre), so a bit more about Santa Cruz!

I poked around downtown on Monday, after housemate Heather showed me where her preferred grocery store was.  It seemed really happening, there is music on the streets, and lots of hip looking restaurants on the main drag.  One of ( Read more... )

So, UCSC is pretty neat. It is VERY different from U of T... starting with it is very separate from Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz itself only has a population of ~50 000, probably half of which are hipsters ( Read more... )