In lieu of working on my research paper, or finishing either my complex analysis and Algebraic Combinatorics (a generating function approach!) homeworks, I decided that it might be interesting to actually write down the adventure I embarked upon last winter. Please, note that this is going to be a very long entry.
( Imagine, dear reader, that the year is 2006 )

In the interest of chronicling my life up to my impending graduation this month, I decided to post my employment history and resume. Make no mistakes, this is neither professional or breathtaking, but it is the truth.

( Oh god this is a horrible pseudo-resume I should be ashamed )

There are but two more quarters of undergraduate college left until I am free to live where I want and pick up whichever jorb I care for ( Read more... )

There is probably a reason why I don't update this frequently, and I imagine it is because I dislike the feeling of lost time; however, I do appreciate the feeling of nostalgia and preserving memories for the purpose of cultivating said feeling ( Read more... )

In my chess program, my AI is so good that it can convince me to take my king with my own knight after my first move, despite this not being a valid move.

I'm a little scared.

Seattle. What a fantastic town. There is so much more to say that I can't put to words. I'm going to stop writing this before it gets any more painful.

Apparently the only person that I could find in Davis to play chess with is some creepy guy in the comp sci basement labs. I'd like to say that this was ample evidence to start coding my own chess game, but really I had started before I ran into him ( Read more... )

I was explaining to Travis how I averted several crises today by helping a friend find oregon trail for mac os9, since that was what she wanted to play in these days after she has broken up with her boyfriend.

Travis : What, is oregon trail like a vibrator ... for the ladies?
Tim : You understand that this must go on the internet, right?

There truly is no better thing to do at 5am than to exploit my expired CS account by looking for patterns in large primes ( Read more... )

I finally managed to see the film "Sneakers" with Robert Redford, River Phoenix and Dan Akroyd. While it was no "hackers" and the actors playing the roles of the mathematician and the Russian ambassador should have been switched, it was quite enjoyable and, surprisingly enough, a majority of the math discussed (with the major exception of the deux ( Read more... )