It occurs to me that I forgot to mention that I finally defended a three weeks ago. Still have a week of corrections left. Thanks everyone who helped get me drunk afterwards. Unfortunately, cell phones and beer don't mix, so if I used to know your phone number, I no longer do. If you want me to call you at some point in the future, you should send ( Read more... )

When I was an impressionable freshman, someone's office door on Wean 4 had this awesome poster parodying (then) popular movie posters with bad computing puns in the way only a Scandinavian computer scientist could. I can't believe I didn't think to look for it until now.

(Oops, 1 of the 13 is NSFW)

10/17 FreezepopMr Small's 7pm

10/24 Matthew SweetMr Small's 8pm

11/7 Catie CurtisThunderbird Cafe 7pm

The last one is 1 hour after the EuroSys deadline, which sounds like a wonderful way to unwind, unless I fall asleep.

4/12 Neko Case
Carnegie Hall, Homestead 8pm

4/13 Mike Doughty
Mr Small's 8pm

4/25 Matt Pond, PA
Diesel 7pm

5/10 Tegan and Sara
Palace, Greensburg 8pm

5/23 KT Tunstall
Carnegie Hall, Homestead

Though there's still that ton of work and actually writing the bloody thesis anyway. The plan is to walk in May 2009, which for those keeping score, would be 7 years of grad school or 10.5 after taking the first required course. CS proposals are public and one of the ex Mach guys I was working with in 1999 stopped by, which was just "holy crap that ( Read more... )

4/19 Great Big Sea
The Rex

4/20 Spoon
CMU

4/23 Loreena McKennitt
Reading

4/24 Vienna Teng
Club Cafe

5/2 My Chemical Romance
Petersen Center

5/7 Duncan Shiek
Club Cafe

5/9 They Might Be Giants
Mr Smalls

6/4 Charlie ( Read more... )

Most of our lab is at a conference that we're very well known for,
and the highlight is this :


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The good : The motorcycle no longer has a top speed of 35mph. Though the only thing wrong with it that I fixed shouldn't have been able to cause that problem ( Read more... )

I now have a fully functional motorcycle. Though I only managed a grand total of 1 mile before the thunderstorm got here. Discoveries : it feels really weird not to be able to see the car directly behind me. And three-dimentional hills suck.

I've been thinking of replacing my driver's side mirror, which has been somewhat floppy ever since an unfortunate incident in a carwash a couple of years ago. Today some idiot decided for me by ripping it off along with most of the paint on that side of the car. And I thought Forbes was safer in light of all the windshield smashings on Darlington. ( Read more... )