One of my favorite moments in the TV series "My Name is Earl" is when Patty the Daytime Hooker says, "What have I done with my life? I've got a master's degree."

Amazon has a clip of it: http://www.amazon.com/Our-Cops-Is-On/dp/B000NI8GAK/ref=

Some things I intend to do over break:

Update LCD code from Renesas to support scrolling and full-screen bit-mapped graphics.
Determine exactly what I want the students to get out of Lab 2 and write it up.
Grade midterm exams.
Grade HW2.
Write detailed description of what I want from the grad student project.
Write a magazine article.
Go diving.
Run.
Ride ( Read more... )

I turned in my keys today.

My office is cleaned out.

Dr. Dean has data DVDs of my work.

While I was there today, my computer in my office turned off, and wouldn't turn back on. The green light on the back of the computer's power supply flashes. The thing is dead. I told Dr. Dean to report it to the ECE help desk because I'm done. I'm ( Read more... )

Just found an old post-it note in my desk. It's probably three years old:
IT WAS NICE KNOWING YOU ZANE, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.  -SIDDHARTHA

The conference paper has been submitted. I'll be pretty excited if it gets accepted.

A friend was asking me how to do an approximation symbol in LaTeX. He didn't like \~{} or $\sim$. Here's what we came up with:

\newcommand{\ktilde}{$_{\widetilde{}}\,$}

Then, in the LaTeX document, you can use \ktilde12\,meters.

Comments, suggestions?

Went riding horses with Daddy yesterday. Good ride in the Flatwoods. I rode his new horse "Sox" for most of the ride. Brown and white paint. He rode either Hellfire or Brimstone: I don't know which is which. It was the one with the black butt. (They're both black and white paints ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday, I took the day off and went to Wet n' Wild in Greensboro with Zeb, his father, and Aaron. It was a lot of fun. I hadn't been there since I was 5. (It was very traumatic back then. I don't know why Daddy took us when we were so young unless it was to get the discount because we were short.) I got stung by what appeared to be a ( Read more... )