The question for right now: Sydney, or Adelaide, or Adelaide and then Sydney, or Melbourne again and then Sydney, or somewhere else and then Sydney, or the third or fourth or fifth option without the Sydney? The problem with 'without the Sydney' is that I do not get to the Sydney Observatory without going to Sydney ( Read more... )

( This is what we did the other night. )

I was going to revise my paper right now, or study for EECS, but I am eagerly awaiting the end of this academic semester and I need some awesome. Thus, linkspam.

This is one of many reasons a certain retired-UM linguistics professor is one of the coolest people ever. (See his website for even more varied awesome.)

Gorgeous pictures of food, With ( Read more... )

And endless work, and piled piled deadlines, and misunderstandings and complication and endless, endless things to do, and resulting PANIC, and a lot of kindness, and even more fantastic enthusiasm about languages and learning and how the world works; science and electronics and computers and language (did I mention), and college, and lack of ( Read more... )

Or, a very happy, if slightly belated, Ada Lovelace Day.*

For now, though -

I'd like to note that I live in a house where a fairly random sampling of five people who were in the dining room around 11 pm all noticed during the approximate hour and a half this past afternoon when Wikipedia was down, and at least one of them knew why ( Read more... )

MY PROGRAMMING PROFESSOR: So I asked them why they used stringstream [for Project 3 output], and they said, 'Because it was cool!' ... Jumping through fiery hoops to use stringstreams - why would anybody think this is cool ( Read more... )

Here, the past few days have included a lot of intermittent oddity, and interest, and immediate-type very good things, really. I'm working, and so on. Someone just walked into the dining room where I'm sitting and told me he was accepted to a grad school; before that, there were stories shared about crazy programming languages and crazier ( Read more... )

( will you follow me past the falls? )

I think I need this. D:Fourth grade intensity, and sunny days on plastic-coated-chain picnic tables and not yet sticky and hurrying to catch up, and now Ellen Kushner's post, and...oh, yes, someday in the future. Probably pretty definitely in the future, though. That's not cheap. However ( Read more... )

Justine Larbalestier is really, really fantastic.

Proper post, and more proper links with them, sometime in the nearish future.