when someone said count your blessings now
'fore they're long gone
i guess i just didn't know how
i was all wrong

Why do I always fall in love with such cheezy music? it hurts so goodI have a wonderful picture of myself with Tony the Tiger (cool guy btw), but unfortunately my main box's linux install is so braindamaged these days that it's ( Read more... )

all gold medals awarded!

you can now class yourself amongst the few elite F5000 racers.

the wipeout team congratulates you on your skills... but will they be good enough for the next edition of wipeoutI'll be prepared. Although this was one aspect of ninja_skills_training, I've obviously not been getting enough done ( Read more... )

my macbook got swiped this morn, right in front of me very (sleepy) eyes.

:(

who took my macbook

p.s. i'll find my macbook

... I had it coming to me. It's probably better this way, for now. I just wish I hadn't lost the data on it; photos from Nova Scotia, passwords, old mail, etc.

meh! time to get back to work!!

Wow, life is incredibly busy. I went to Ottawa and near-immediately drove to Nova Scotia for vacation. It was gorgeous!! NS is just soo.. pleasant. Laid-back. Vacationy :) Catherine and her bf Kevin and my cousin Colleen and I had our own little roadtrip to Cape Breton, which I'm now in love with. I've got to get that photo gallery set up ( Read more... )

Life is crazycrazycrazy pearl's_girl-style. Fun though, a little more relaxed now than it has been over the past few months. But that's only making me too slack.

I have more projects now than ever; research proj, dig it, some sketchy part-time AI projects, etc... This only means I'm putting off previous commitments that will likely be prolonged ( Read more... )

I should post something real. Instead, I found this most excellent paper, in a google search for "variabilities". I was convinced it's not a real word, and am still rather unconvinced. (I found that in a different paper.) Anyway, the one I've linked uses some hilarious terminology in describing "the naturalness of concatenative speech synthesis ( Read more... )

At Apple talk. Now running on reserve battery power. Linux VM is installing a new kernel. Eeps!

However: omg: face recognition code got written and finished during Marriott's class and in the presentation it actually worked!!! lolz ftw!

It's a gorgeous Saturday. I'm at the high flower-pot patio of the CEIT building. The ledge makes for a really nice sunny isolated warm place to code, and with good wireless too. I was having trouble getting any work done in the cold dark MC... I don't get a lot of sun these days :)

btw, congrats to isamukun and kawaiidust on their marriage! It was a really ( Read more... )

Sad, research project everything is due tomorrow, since Prof's decided we won't submit an abstract unless we're sure we have something that works :) So it looks like we won't get a paper done or anything. This significantly decreases my chances of getting into grad studies, lol. No giving up hope now, though.... this just makes the next 24 hours ( Read more... )

Had a nice short visit to Ottawa for the weekend. Family, swimming, and kayaking with math_foo as jets flew by, in formation even.

Thanks to the very generous support of my mom and an Aunt, I purchased a happy pretty MacBook yesterday. The cheapest model they had. I am in love.

Productivity took a bit of a dive, but with my setup now I think this is ( Read more... )