Here's the bridge segment from yesterday's post.  Apparently somebody loves Gina.

Yesterday I jumped off a 35 ft bridge ( Read more... )

Awesome rant against the anti-intellectual movement in the US, from Esquire of all places.  Yet Another Reason to Expatriate.

http://www.mywire.com/pubs/Esquire/2005/11/01/1037893?page=1

Well, some pretty long boring spots in the past few weeks, mostly me flailing about trying to find a new videogame to play.  I'm seriously considering WoW again.  But this weekend was pretty cool ( Read more... )

Spent the evening eating dinner with Mary's family, and then convinced them to play Pandemic.  We lost really fast the first time, due to some bad draws; but we won the second time, with about a round to spare.  That game is pretty luck-happy, but very fun.  I felt like I was manhandling the other players some of the time, though; I should really ( Read more... )

Wow - busy weekend.  Mary's mom and brother were in from out-of-town, so Friday I took them out to dinner and hung out at some parks with them.  I stumbled across a rock-climbing wall, but it turned out to be a pretty hard one - I've never rock climbed before, and I was definitely not making it up this one.  Then we found some bike races and ( Read more... )

Wow - long work day today.  Spent a lot of time writing code, and screwing around with parallelizing SVD.  Wrote a bunch of code that is now useless.

Joey mentioned I might be able to work with Gaurav and him on large-scale machine learning.  That actually sounds really interesting to me.

Off to bed now.

Wow - long update gap. Sorry about that.

Not much to report. Let's see, my plane still has aileron jitter I can't get rid of. I got a flash cart for my DS. I put together a PocketCiv (solitaire civ-like board game) set. I've watched a lot of television - I watched Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Man to Man with Dean Learner. Mary and I ( Read more... )

Well, I know who *I'm* voting for.

Interestingly, after the previous post I got Salmonbotted.  I didn't know that existed.  I'm not sure what it's for, but it's an amusing idea.