Felt really sick today with congestion, aches, malaise, and sore throat that developed out of the blue ( Read more... )

Living in Providence now, splitting an apartment with tolchocky. Courses start in two weeks and orientations are even sooner ( Read more... )

I spent most of this weekend at BarCampBoston3, a web/computing/networking/entrepreneurship unconference that left me exhausted when I got home at 8:30 pm and exhilarated now that I'm up at 3:45 pm. For an event that demanded mostly sitting, listening, thinking, and talking, I'm surprised how much it took out of me. One explanation was the absence ( Read more... )

I'm posting from ROFLcon. The talks (so far, forums on the LOLCAT phenomenon and on Pwning for the Good of Mankind) have been alright. More audience participation (including chunks from tolchocky) than I've ever seen at events like this. But the people, wow. I had a simultaneous conversation with Alexis Ohanian and Anonymous ( Read more... )

I accepted the offer from Brown Applied Mathematics and I'll start working towards a Ph.D. there in the Fall. This presages good and bad things for this LJ. Good, because posting during the day will be legit and there will be fewer worries about "hai bosz, u can haz sum incriminating statements that might lead to my termination, loss of benefits, ( Read more... )

Google Talk, why do you have to be so damn awkward?


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I've always wanted to play a house game of Apples to Apples. Because birthday parties are formulated around one's deepest wishes and longest-held desires, I got to play this game last Saturday.

It wasn't anyone's birthday in particular that day, but it lay nicely between tolchocky's and mine, so it was chosen as the day for festivites. Tradition was mostly ( Read more... )

Today was fire day at my apartment.

I was in my room, coding up a storm with paul-stansifer. We'd made some real progress on the front-end and were moving into some of the machine learning validation, but that's another story. Ned poked his head in and asked if I smelled anything strange. I didn't, but as I walked towards the kitchen, an odor of burning plastic ( Read more... )

Updating from the OLPC XO-1. This thing is a barrel of green and white fun and a technological wonder.


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Because I work for the behemoth that is JNJ, I get to use the online company store that sells JNJ products at super discounts. I promised my mother, a while ago, that I'd try to get her most recent contact lenses (Acuvue is a trademark of VIstakon) through there ( Read more... )