A quick update. I'm only in NY for another two weeks, and since my host's eldest daughter packed up and left for Boston last week, they suggested I move into their apartment (as opposed to living with her sister-in-law, who lives across the street, where I've been for the past five weeks, occasionally being feasted on by mosquitoes).

1. Sucky ( Read more... )

Went on a tour of Google's new york city office today! Reasons why Google NY is completely and utterly pwnsome ( Read more... )

I'm having another one of my gloomy mood swings. It's been a very, very long week so I'm quite glad it's the weekend ( Read more... )

Some really interesting visual representations (cataloged via http://www.visualcomplexity.comRead more... )

Give your résumé a face lift
7 Deadly Sins of resume design

A Penn alum who is now working at Pixar came today representing the company to do some recruiting. The presentation was really cool: he worked on crowd simulation in RatatouilleBasically, when you have a TON of rats (anyone remember the attic falling?), you don't want to have the animators work on each rat individually. 1000+ rats x animating each ( Read more... )

http://www.pjlighthouse.com/2007/03/07/amazing-paper-art-using-one-piece-of-paper-by-peter-callesen/

^ Very cool. Art created using one piece of paper.

Christmas was nice. My parents don't do the whole "buy a thoughtful gift" thing, but rather "here's some money and buy yourself something nice" -- so, in the end, I bought myself Heroes Season 1 on DVD and Twilight/New Moon/Eclipse by Stephenie Myer. It's been awhile since I've had a vampire story to read :P I would highly recommend the novels if ( Read more... )

It's snowing outside! The first big snow in Philly. I am very happy right now, being INSIDE and cozy by the heater. I don't fancy having to walk outside to get to class in an hour, but I'll enjoy watching the snow from the other side of the window while I can ( Read more... )

http://www.freerice.com

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com

Hopefully adding in links on Avlog will generate them some traffic :)