Uncle Pauly: Hmm. Should I go karaoke tonight?
Leah: why not?
Uncle Pauly: I dunno. Cold and damp outside?
Leah: true
Uncle Pauly: And it's already 10 til 11?
Leah: i was focused on the "don't have to get up" angle
Uncle Pauly: Yeah
Leah: the cold & damp is a turn off
Uncle Pauly: Yeah, but nobody else is taking their Scrabble turns
Leah: i know ( Read more... )

Three months ago: My friend/coworker Leah, who brought me over to the company where we now both work, takes me around and introduces me to some of my new coworkers. She then brings me to a person who she says she's worked with at a different company in the past.

Leah: Here he is. This is George.
George: Paul...?!
Me: Holy fucking shit ( Read more... )

Leah: u haven't written to live journal in months
Uncle Pauly: I know
Leah: :( i like your blog
Uncle Pauly: I've been too emo to write
Uncle Pauly: I didn't want to turn into Oscar
Leah: post something
Uncle Pauly: Heh. You know, I just don't have the patience to be as verbose as Oscar
Leah: your last post was 1 sentence 6 weeks ago
Uncle Pauly: ( Read more... )

A note from a friend on Rosh Hashanah: "Tonight we're gonna party like it's 5767".

Saw the headline for this pop up in my RSS feed viewer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6752853.stm

The story itself was somewhat of a let-down, though.

Oz: fucking. creepy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6729745.stm
Uncle Pauly: I, for one, welcome our new bear robot overlords
Oz: alright, kent brockman
Uncle Pauly: :-)
Uncle Pauly: "New Scientist magazine reports that the "friendly appearance" of the robot is ( Read more... )

I was up in Montreal over Memorial Day weekend at the invitation of my friend Amy.

I decided I wanted to stay up there in style, so I found a little boutique hotel up there (http://www.kutuma.com/ ) that looked pretty swank.

However, upon arriving...

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Oz: oh man
Oz: I'm looking for info on sounds like searches
Oz: I was muddling through some wikipedia link on search algorithms and found this:
Oz: Hash tables are also used for list search, requiring only constant time for search in the average case, but more space overhead and terrible O(n) worst-case search time. Another search based on ( Read more... )

Montreal was wonderful beyond belief. I will be posting pics and stories about it soon.

Here's a random something in the meantime.

Denise: yo
Uncle Pauly: ya
Denise: the geeks i work with think your buddy icon is cool (my icon is a Yip Yip, like my LJ userpic)
Uncle Pauly: LOL
Uncle Pauly: Yip yip yip yip
Uncle Pauly: Uh huh uh huh
Denise: i ( Read more... )

Flight's delayed another 30 minutes. I'm melting. Get me out of here.