Last night, I had some very vivid dreams (none of which made much sense under the light of day). One thing that stuck out particularly was a hug. Not a casual, 3-second touch; the kind where you bury your head in the other person's shoulder and cry.

That's a real hug, which one doesn't get to experience often, and in my dream I was the recipient ( Read more... )

Man, it's weird hanging out with undergrads ( Read more... )

How much do we love the TSA?

How about the FAA? Ever thought about them?

Here's your daily dose of worry: the FAA has lost over a hundred inspector's badges. Read as a pilot blogger discusses the ramifications.

OS and application developers need to get their acts together ( Read more... )

One of the interesting things about Chinese-derived languages that fascinates me is the preponderance of ordered sets. For instance, novels in a series are labeled up and down, or if there are three, up, middle, and down. (I assume that in modern literature, where longer series are common, they simply number them ( Read more... )

I fell off my scooter last night. Got cocky going through a turn, went too fast/leaned too far, and fell over ( Read more... )

When the professor turned on the overhead projector (which is actually videocamera-based) the words "we are watching you" appeared on the screen. Very funny. Until the professor tried to remove them and found out they'd been written in marker on the surface, and weren't easily erasable ( Read more... )

Talk about baptism by fire. Maybe this is typical for PhD students (or maybe it's typical for Karsten), but I'm just getting pushed into every sort of task. I found out a week ago that I had to give a half-hour presentation today on the app we built last semester, which we've been given the first two weeks of this semester to get production-ready ( Read more... )

In addition to using the phonetic alphabet, I should also use the PGP word list. I would love to see the confusion on people's faces when I read a memory address as "tactics perceptive skydive unravel"

For some reason, a lot of people really struggle to use my DVR. I think I understand part of the problem. They expect it to behave like an appliance, when in fact it behaves like a computer ( Read more... )