Even meeting someone can't tell you who someone is. Not completely. You could know someone for years and not know some specific thing they believe or an opinion they have. Nevertheless, we are required to form social bonds in order to survive. In order for these bonds to exist, we must trust one another enough -- we must have a good *enough* ( Read more... )

Excellence
July 13, 2010The problem with this is that it's not who I am ( Read more... )

Tonight I am going to do something that I very rarely do. I am going to do something that I have not done in a very long time. Tonight I will put to words, or at least I will try to put into words, what I truly feel. It is the very late night and very early morning of Friday, November 20, 2009. I have spent the past few weeks not knowing what ( Read more... )

Excellence
September 5, 2009Of the lovely women out there ( Read more... )

Update: Performed most of this routine August 5, 2009. You would think that being a technically-adept computer nerd, I would be able to start my camera recording... not so much. I have video, but it starts a couple minutes in, I did not deliver the routine as flawlessly as I had hoped, and the audio quality is terrible. I could post it to ( Read more... )

I've never done this before, so bear with me ( Read more... )

It's All About the Washingtons
May 29, 2009Now... what you wanna do ( Read more... )

In my compilers class, we are discussing optimization. Floating point numbers don't behave like other normal numbers. Our example of how you can't necessarily optimize floating point operations was to add a big number to a small number, subtract the big number, and compare what you expect to what actually occurs ( Read more... )

People
September 28, 2008Those you like ( Read more... )

August 26, 2008You wonder where ( Read more... )