Well, I'm back.  For today, at least.  And the topic of today's post?  Usability!  Hooray!

As of December 3rd, I am now a fully responsible, contributing member of society, also known as an adult.  With great responsibility comes great power, therefore it is with (great) pleasure that I am able to announce that I can now bank online.  Yes, the ( Read more... )

Oh man, jetlag.  Oh man.  I just got in at 6 pm, and my body thinks it's 5 hours later.

What ho, France followers!  I've been in Nantes for the past three days, and lacking internet access, I actually had more to experience the wonder and mystery of France.  So, to sum up:

• Galettes = crepes with fillings like bacon, mushrooms and cream, or ham, mushrooms and cream.
• The aforementioned galettes were my delicious dinner two nights in a row
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I spent today on the beach, eating treats from the patisserie. That's about it!

Oh yeah, and I had pain au chocolat for breakfast. Life is good. Tomorrow, we attend the Dinan market then head out for Nantes!

Today I:

• Listened to a saxophone busker play sweet sweet jazz on the bridge by Notre Dame
• Climbed up Notre Dame
• Climbed down Notre Dame
• Watched the Eiffel Tower attempt to induce seizures on passers-by (it does some insane flickering light show every hour after dark)
• Ate Chinese food (cheapest thing in the Latin Quarter besides Greek food)

Today was an extraordinarily beautiful day, so we made the best possible use of it that we could: we picnicked.  In fact we ate our lunch of baguette, camenbert and spanish sausage in front of The Thinker, the centrepiece of the Rodin Museum's garden.  It was delicious, and cheap, too!  We bought a sizeable chunk of camenbert for €0.85, or ( Read more... )

Yesterday we walked through some of the ritziest parts of Paris while trying to find a currency exchange building.  We also passed through a shopping mall that was built underneath a 400 year old stained glass dome.  Today, we're going to the Rodin Museum, and we're picking up some (lots) of bread and cheese so we can picnic in the garden.

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Attention internet: I am leaving for France in five minutes.  More updates to follow over the next twelve days.

EDIT: I am now relaxing in the wonderful Air Canada lounge, as my flight's had a teensy delay.  PS, life sucks because they just ran out of sundried tomato & basil-flavoured chips >:(

So I was reading this interesting paper on Self-Reproducing Programs in Common Lisp, and I've just come to the bibliography at the end.  Lo and behold, there is some kind of story written there about a king, a toaster and several advisers who are supposed to create a microcontroller for it (the toaster).  Unfortunately it cuts off about halfway ( Read more... )

A testament to the awesomeness of stop motion

Today was my 17th birthday.  I got the paperback version of Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan, my own Go board (the deluxe edition, no less!), a promise from my brother to register me a copy of djDecks, a "Code Hero" shirt and a bit more than $150 in cash.  The harvest is good ( Read more... )