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On getting the girls
Nerdfighter advice on getting girls to like you
"Oh, and one other thing guys: it would be really helpful if you could see girls as, like, people instead of pathways to kissing and/or salvation."
Although I still think the earlier advice in the video about being a puppy or kitten might be more effective. ;)
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Interviewed!
Remember my post about Carleton CS researchWell, the school paper interviewed me yesterday. Not sure that it'll be terrific. It's clear that the people I talked to weren't used to interviewing graduate students. They asked me things that they really should have looked up themselves before an interview, and really asked the wrong questions in the ( Read more... ) -
Go Carleton Research! Go me!
Carleton ranked #5 for highest impact in computer science, at least according to sciencewatch.com. (short numbersWe were ranked on average citations per paper (1.72 ( Read more... ) -
My Thesis/PhD FAQs
For what it's worth, I am REALLY sick of answering variants of this:
So, you've got a draft of your proposal... does that mean you're almost done? What's left in your PhD? How long will it take?
So here's the (long) answer ( Read more... ) -
Looking for Thunderbird coolness
Mail.app and I have had a falling out over mutual differences (I think it should actually check my subscribed imap folders for new messages, it thinks I should not accidentally make bad rules that move all my messages into inexplicable places and then blame it) so I'm giving Thunderbird a try again ( Read more... ) -
Inappropriate
Dealt with some stupidity today. (The link has more details.) -
Thesis proposal draft!
Got it finished last night, sanity checked this morning, and sent off to my supervisor. Woo! I probably have a few days to do other work while he reads it over. :) -
Looking for workout suggestions
Okay, there's been plenty of (actually quite good) reasons for my inability to run up the 5 flights of stairs to my office this past month, but my lack of aerobic fitness is actually kinda getting on my nerves. So I'm looking for fitness advice.
I'm looking for something along the lines of the couch-to-5k running plan, which comes pretty highly ( Read more... )
