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Well, as fun as writing in this journal regularly has been, it's crunch time for me now. Although it hasn't been perfect, I've been able to write in this journal fairly regularly over the last 40 plus days. But, I have three different deadlines in the next nine days - and then I graduate! Therefore, I might be writing in here when I feel like it ( Read more... )

Today, I've been investigating one of the windows 7 cutting edge features: speech recognition. I had always thought of speech recognition as a rather primitive kind of software that was still error prone. Was I wrong! I've practiced using it to dictate text today, and I found that even though it had received a minimum of training on my voice, it ( Read more... )

Yesterday before the no-tv week started, I read a very interesting article in the New York Times called Is Sugar Toxic? Sounds like a very dramatic title, but I thought it was an extremely effectively written and compelling case against processed sugar, including corn syrup. Truly, the desire for sugar is just an artifact of evolution-biased ( Read more... )

Whew, today I finally turned in the math homework I have been working on for the last four days. In contrast to the last assignment which was frustrating, I was pretty happy with almost all my answers on this assignment. That's a good thing, given that these questions are 'supposed to be difficult' as my TA told me. I've had to do a lot of math, ( Read more... )

I've experienced two remarkable doppelgangers in my life.

I was shocked when a friend passed me this photograph on the left:

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So I've reverted back the number of days to 15 of 40: That is because, of the 40 days of writing that were originally my goal, I've written only 14 so far, not even half! Tut tut tut. So I restarted the clock. Maybe because I'm stubborn, maybe because I want to give the writing thing another try. Not many comments so far, and I do appreciate ( Read more... )

Well...it's that time of the semester again! April and November have always been the worst months for me as a student. I'm really going to have to keep my nose to the grindstone for the next three weeks... I'm not panicking, just feeling that familiar sense of resignation that most of my free time activities will have to be kept to a minimum for ( Read more... )

I feel physically bushwacked today! On Saturday, I went rafting with some folks at National Instruments, where a couple of friends are interning. Rafting was basically the same as tubing down the Guadalupe River, but in a three person raft, and there were some small rapids which were tough to get over because the river was unusually low (it's been ( Read more... )