So... first earthquake that I've felt. Magnitude 5.6... At first, I thought it was the crazy first-floor freshmen stampeding, but then the floor started moving slightly in random directions. No visible damage to the infrastructure.

Strongest earthquake in California in three years.

1. I hate air travel. United canceled its Saturday late evening flight from Washington-Dulles to State College, so now my itinerary has a flight to Dulles, but no connection. It also canceled its Sunday early morning flight, so now the earliest I can arrive is Sunday at 2 PM. Unfortunately, this is happening to me twice -- once for Thanksgiving, ( Read more... )

1. HP shipped my notebook yesterday. To be fair, they do splurge on shipping -- FedEx standard overnight for anything to me -- so I should get it tomorrow (!). :)
2. Stanford beat (formerly) No. 2 USC, 24-23. What. The. Fuck.
3. Scavenger hunt was a good deal of fun. I didn't go last year, so I wasn't really sure what to expect... they hyped it up to be ( Read more... )

All right... ( rant )

1. So my Sennheiser CX300s came today. As you may remember, I was talking about them in my last entry. Initial reaction: definitely much better than the things I've been using since my Sony MDR-EX71s died. These block out a comparable amount of ambient noise, which was one of the main positives of the MDR-EX71s. Others have complained that the ( Read more... )

1. There is one more week until I leave for school again. On the one hand, I'm taking a bunch of kickass classes this quarter and this year, but on the other, I'm going to miss everyone in State College. It's been really awesome just to relax at home, go out with my girlfriend, and see my high-school friends regularly.
2. I got an iPod nano. I ( Read more... )

So, I haven't posted a real entry in a long time. What's been going on recently? Let's recap.

1. I'm working at PSU in a lab in IST. This is really cool for the most part, as I love programming and the project is reasonably interesting. The project, essentially, is to improve on current search engine algorithms. As a prototype, we're working in ( Read more... )

Schedules:

Autumn 2007

Winter 2008

Spring 2008

This doesn't have discussion/recitation sections scheduled yet, nor SHC-HAL office hours. But I'm excited.

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