Yes, I'm a very bad individual, I forgot to mention to a lot of people that I went on a trip to Boston to visit gjc314159 and fruchtzwergchen for American Turkey Day.

It was a great trip. We managed to avoid killing me, which is pretty impressive, as the American food industry seems to insist on putting eggs in everything or processing it on machinery that handles nuts/ ( Read more... )

I have concluded, through substantial empirical testing, that I am much more fun when I don't get enough sleep. And much more inclined to do work. Go me!

I haven't even had coffee yet either. Imagine what I'd be like now with coffee. Yes, tremble mortals.

I volunteered to help with the graduate orientation events this term. The basic stuff today ( Read more... )

I'm now back from Texas. Had a wonderful time. Will make a more detailed/coherent post tomorrow.

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This may take the cake for one of the strangest days ever. While waiting for the bus today, I saw an Elvis impersonator and a Marilyn Monroe impersonator drive by in one of those little Smart ForTwo cars. Then when I went in to pick up my Guild Wars: Factions pre-order, I ran into Solange at the counter.

Ah, lambda calculus. My old foe. Well, there go the old brain cells again...

On the upside, I did actually manage to re-learn it and explain it in under an hour and a half!

Random WTF quote of the day: efficient_cow: "its the muppets , and david bowie and david bowies crotch which also counts as a muppet" (Re: Labyrinth. Still have to see that movie sometime, even if, as isca warns me, it's terrible.)

The past week or so's been fairly busy. Marking, writing, coding, working at the Learning Centre... Though I took on a side-job doing ( Read more... )

I now have contributions to an active free software project. Some (small) patches of mine to tweak fish's behaviour under OS X should be in the next release.

Because I've never actually done one of these before...

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I make the following New Year's resolutions:

1. To deal with my FPs gracefully and diligently,
2. To help others with their FPs as I am able, and
3. Not to be the FP.

FP = Fucking Problem, not First Post or Flower Power.

Also, Sense and Sensibility is even stranger than Love Actually with Snape lines randomly inserting themselves into the dialog. ( Read more... )