Ok, so as to explain my previous post:

I was sitting in my remarkably big office at my new job[1]. It was just about noon and I had opened up Thunderbird to ship off an email. I checked my in box and there was an invitation for the Google Code Jam Europe, the same evening. As mentioned in the post before the last one[2] I had nearly qualified for ( Read more... )

So, for the past week I've been in Vegas, residing at the Aladdin Resort, located right in the middle of the strip. People were there. Fun things were done! Poker was played with Ruberik and Dethridge to name a couple. Astronomy was discussed with Reid and Rustyoldman to name a couple. The roller coaster around New York New York got ridden twice. ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm apparently going to tell you stuff without telling you stuff. Here goes ( Read more... )

Before I forget: I got m'self this johari-thingy where you can click on things that you think about me and see how that compares to how I would describe myself. The words are in general positive sounding. It is quite impressive how the English language have so many antonyms that both sound positive ( Read more... )

I'm sure you're all wondering: what would Kal look like if he was a blue blob. Well, I'd look somewhat like this:

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Right.. so to summarize my most recent California trip:
My hotel-room was fairly unawesome. Although it did come with a ryan_pai. Yay!

As can be seen here I got to the wildcard round, but bummed out there, so no inordinate sums of prize money to me. I've gotten quite a lot of nice t-shirts and some cool NSA gear, though ( Read more... )

As has been gently alluded to, I moved over the weekend. If you were about to mail me a belated Valentine's Day card or something, please ask for my new address, which has temporarily slipped my mind ( Read more... )

In case you have never done it before, I recomend that you try to miss a connecting flight. You get this sudden calmness flowing through you the instant you realize that there is no chance whatsoever of you making it ( Read more... )

So the programming contest yesterday went pretty well ( Read more... )

Ohh! So I'm in California again. Now I lost my chain of thought. Due to lack of sleep and/or food. But I think that was what I was going to say anyway, so I'll just get some food and go to bed. *yawns* It must be, like.. 8:30 pm or something here ( Read more... )