So I have this idea for a sitcom titled Retriever in Chief. In it, the President of the United States is a Labrador Retriever. No reason is ever given, it is just an accepted fact, and the show plunges into more and more absurd depths as the season progresses (because really, what the hell is a dog doing as the president ( Read more... )

Somebody just knocked on my window. I'm afraid to see who it is, because I LIVE ON THE SECOND STORY.

I had an MRI today. My first thought to all the whirring and clicking in the chamber: "wow, this sounds like a really good Brian Eno song." I then fell asleep.

I've decided the naming scheme for my low-level C routines for Python is going to be after cities in Troms, Norway.

• Bardu - Two-dimensional sparse matrix creation, arithmetic and extraction library (especially for HAL
• Tromsø - Sparse matrix vector library for Bardu

Toronto pictures.

Today I realized I don't even need VMWare -- I can use tsclient and the windows machine down the hall. I forgot that tsclient was nice and did RDP(v5)?|XDMCP|VNC all from the same dialog, so I can connect via every major remote desktop protocol.

Gone for 5 days. So much catching up to do! P.S. Toronto is a very, very nice, cosmopolitan city. Way the fuck better than Boston or LA for sure.

Several things:

1. Supercomputers! That is, I am porting software to work on one of San Diego's supercomputers. Dang it's cool to think something I write will run on over a thousand processors at once.
2. Multicast DNS is still awesome. It's really nice being able to get ad-hoc, resolving computer domain names (in .local) working on a LAN, because ( Read more... )

Hahaha Sam is unemployed now.

I wrote an Ajax library. I am sooooo mid-May.

Ohhhh man.

• Some sort of white wine
• Some sugar
• Kosher salt
• Chopped garlic
• Like a bag of spinach