This article is entertaining (e.g. the part about north korea's purchase of optically variable ink).

Last night was the siggraph paper deadline. For the last couple weeks, more than a dozen people were working non-stop on their projects. Every day was like the day before a big deadline: working from morning late into night, barely stopping for food or sleep. Every night, people ordered food for delivery. Near the end, the lab even paid for ( Read more... )

Fun things involving (or organized by) friends in new york:

subway party
santas plus urban decay
fight club
flash theatreI'm trying to decide whether I should head down there tomorrow. There are several fun events planned, but I have a lot of work I should do here ( Read more... )

a) I'm still struggling with caffeine withdrawal. My body prefers 0.5 cans a day rather than 1 can every other day, but the later is more practical. This is definitely screwing with my sleep schedule ( Read more... )

1. I'm trying (again) to kick my caffeine habit. Down to 0.5 cans of soda per day ( Read more... )

I've finished my master's thesis. (Realistically it will need some modifications before the thesis deadline (which is still more than a month away), but as far as I'm concerned, it's done ( Read more... )

I've been rather busy in the two months since getting back from the trip to CA/TX/WA/ID/MN. Here's a long-winded summary.

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I'm not planning to post to this very often, but I suppose this is worth it ( Read more... )