woohoo, two of my patent applications finally got published :) now i just need to wait another few years for them to be rejected, and a little while after that for IBM to rebut the objections and get them accepted...

I swear, I think I've gotten about 10 solicitations from MIT for money in the past month. Couple letters, whole bunch of emails. I wonder how long it will take to train the Gmail spam filters to recognize donation requests as spam. I'm a little surprised I didn't have to pass President Hockfield a $20 bill at graduation to actually get my ( Read more... )

It had to happen eventually...I think I just felt my first earthquake. It was rather anticlimatic.

a veritable smorgasbord since I hardly post on LJ ( Read more... )

I'm a little behind the times and only now found out about the lawsuit between Calvary Chapel Christian School and the University of California (or perhaps I found out about it at the time and forgot?). It seems that UC refused to accept a biology course at CCCS as appropriate preparation for college (while accepting other courses) because the ( Read more... )

I had alligator for lunch a couple days ago. I thought they were joking when I saw it on the menu, but it turns out they weren't so much.

A little while ago, they installed a dinosaur at work.

current location: santa clara, california ( Read more... )

Degree Audit
Undergrad Audit in Course 6 3 -- All General Institute Requirements Complete.
Complete: 17.0 GIR subjects (17 req'd) plus 189 units beyond GIRs (189 req'd)

Oh dear god I'm glad my camera showed up this week. Full story at mitcannon.com for those who haven't seen it.