databoss...

• was born in 1997
• was a play on the word database
• had a collection of computers he built from garbage
• spent a lot of time on usenet
• slept on a couch in the basement

I'll be doing a lot of reading this summer. The current reading list in approximate order is:

• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (borrowed from Emily)
• The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson
• How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love With Poetry, Edward Hirsch (gift from Laurel)
• The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, ( Read more... )

I'll be in Royal Oak from June 12 to June 21. Delmar, monday, 6pm, spread the word.

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. "Dammit, Otto, you are an alcoholic." "Dammit, Otto, you have Lupus." One of those two doesn't sound right.
-- Mitch Hedberg ( Read more... )

I have passed my classes, which means that I have finished my undergraduate education.

( Reflections )

My mind has been fixating on a single memory for the past 2 months or so. It reminds me of a line from a Bob Dylan song: I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. It was 2002, Steve and I were headed up to the Leelanau peninsula. Three or four other people had planned on coming and cancelled, but we went anyway. We had borrowed Doug's ( Read more... )

databoss13: I'm using my L-system code as a synthesizer to generate music from the peano curve
ROOTofBsquared: i'm adding that to my collection of pick-up lines

Apparently Ray is the Internet's brother.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/050506-sun-radia-perlman-interview.html

This past weekend was steer roast. I managed to stop by a couple times. Summary: long lines, playground with ball pit, attempting to guess when my simulations were finished, a lobster named Samuel III, the "Okie zone", physics discussion with an alum named jared from bloomfield hills, towers kids ain't half bad, and moderate to high levels of ( Read more... )

Beast roast was yesterday. Good times indeed. There was a little of this and a little of that. There was also, virtual beast roastOn an unrelated note, I finished a thesis chapter and given the weather, decided to celebrate with a jog. It's been a while, the last time I went jogging was along lake Geneva. It was awfully wonderful and ( Read more... )