Elizabeth and I read really differently. Whether it's a book or a magazine, I tend to read stuff straight through; I at least have to take a crack at a chapter or article and give up on it before moving on to the next one. She moves around the volume and picks out what appeals to her. With good books, we both read the same amount of stuff.

( good/blah )

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
( ... )

The weekend before my thesis defence, Ellie and I went to Montreal and then to the country. We popped in on aeon_of_maat to wish him a belated happy birthday, and I took a side-trip to meet with a programming patron - possibly my last freelance gig for a while, but needed money and an interesting job. We then went out to the country and hit a friend's ( Read more... )

I defended today, and have to fix some grammar, and switch the words "left" and "right" in a bunch of places in my thesis. Aside from that, I am done my schooling for some time to come.

It feels awesome.

More after I get some sleep.

I finished my thesis yesterday and today I'm in Montreal handing it in and wandering a bit: lunch with an old high school friend, then wandering, then meeting denkizero at DemoCamp.

Here's the abstract of the thing that's eaten my summer:
A SYMMETRY-GROUP SEMANTICS FOR SHAPE GRAMMARS
( more… )

So, my birthday was last week… thanks to everyone for the wishes, gifts and good food! It fell in the last throes of thesis this year, so I've been working into the late evening a lot, and trekking back to Montreal every week or two, but I still found time to celebrate ( Read more... )

The strangest things pop out at you sometimes.

Apple would like me to update my copy of iTunes, which I may get to doing when I'm not listening to music:With iTunes 7.3, you can now activate iPhone service and sync it with your music, TV shows, movies and more. Also, you can now wirelessly share and enjoy your favorite digital photos from any ( Read more... )

I'm now pretty much wholly at the new² place. We're still picking our way through stuff that needs unpacking, reassembling and stowing, but things that need hooking up are hooked up, and the bulk of our stuff is here, thanks to Allied Movers (who were friendly, efficient and broke absolutely nothing as far as we can tell) and my uncle and his wife ( Read more... )