Graduation: I graduated today. That is, I dressed up in the cap and gown that Shweta lent me, with a gold tassel from my high school mortarboard (which differentiated me from my blue-and-gold-tasseled classmates), and …
BookFinder's Fifth Anniversary Extravaganza (a history of the company) is laugh-out-loud funny and worth reading.
Computer scientists are always talking about the halting problem. Halting problem? What halting problem? When I want to shut down my computer, I go to a prompt and type, "halt", and hit Enter. What's the …
Skimmed Neal Stephenson's The Big U last night. Stephenson didn't rerelease it for a long time, arguing that he didn't want people to read his inferior early work instead of reading worthwhile fiction by other …
As I woke up, nearsighted, and looked from my bed to my wall-hooks, I saw this funny plain black dress on top of the whole pile. Oh, yeah, the graduation gown Shweta lent me. According …
Got two graduation gifts today, which were, as all of them will be, unexpected. I can't believe I'm graduating, and therefore can't quite believe that I should get gifts for anything. Jeana gave me Two …
Regarding this entry: And Sliders! Before that show got into weird story arcs about war with aliens, it was a great show.
Inside joke to people who know the Mahabharata: After last night's West Wing, during which President Bartlet assassinated the terrorism-sponsoring defense minister from Kumar, the President's chariot will no longer float an inch above the …
I sent off not one, but two job applications today! Yee-ha.
Yes, I'm out of my Linguistics final. Yes, it was scheduled for 5-8pm. Yes, it's quarter to six. Curse you, John McWhorter, for acting like a hip, concepts-oriented teacher and all the while devising a …
