Was excellent. It's amazingly well-plotted-I don't think there were five minutes when I thought I knew how things would turn out okay. Effects were great, as usual. But...

( Spoilers yay! )

Been sick and disinclined to post here since my cruise, but here's the executive summary ( Read more... )

Small gifts the last two nights: a letter opener, a TV-B-Gone, The Postal Service's album (from Blake), and so on ( Read more... )

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!

*cough*

Well, I'm done, at least. Now to wait and see if they consider me to have reached my goals ( Read more... )

Only New Yorkers could have designed John F. Kennedy International Airport.

But let's start at the beginning. ( Long explanation... )

Now in a hotel room in Rome, after spending three days in Florence. I have regular Internet access here-my access point is now hooked up in place of their worse-than-useless WebTV ripoff-which is quite handy ( Read more... )

On Thursday I leave for England.

On Friday I arrive.

On Saturday I sit for an exam at Oxford.

On Sunday I start learning Java.

On Thursday I leave school.

On Friday I fly to Italy.

On Friday I fly back to England.

On Saturday I return home.

On Sunday I get a new car.

On Thursday I finish my Summer of Code project.

Yow.

I'm back.

I got quite a bit done on my SoC project during this trip, which makes me happy.

I got to get towed behind a boat in an innertube, and ride a Sea-Doo (although I fell off once and had to drag it back to shore), which made me happy.

I finished The Diamond Age (a good book! All hail Princess Nell and Neal Stephenson!), which made me ( Read more... )

So, today I fulfilled a childhood fantasy. To be specific, there was a Fourth of July party today, but I pretty much ignored the party and just hacked. And my parents didn't try to stop me. It was awesome.

No, I'm not dead. However, my Internet access here is so poor I might as well be for the next few days. (It's basically limited to wardriving and a 28.8 modem connection on my mom's laptop.)

btw, the techies in the crowd may want to friend brentdaxuseperlOh, and it turns out I'm allergic to my iPod-or more specifically, the nickel in the earbuds. I'm using ( Read more... )