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I thought I'd outgrown this shit
OK, so Tuesday I'm flying to Seattle. From Hartford. Via Atlanta. Because that's what's available on Delta before Christmas Eve.
The hilarious part is that back when I was in college, I would get up at a ridiculous hour to catch the Metro-North, then connect to a subway, then connect to a bus, to get to JFK by mid-afternoon for my long-ass ( Read more... ) -
OK, fine
Next time I'm planning my flight out to Seattle for Christmas, I'll ask around and make sure that nobody else has plans for that weekend. Since apparently I am cursed by snow demons.
Upsides: more time to tidy up the apartment before I leave! And at least this time my flight got canceled, instead of delayed 8 hours while we sat on the tarmac ( Read more... ) -
Big Day, Part 2
As of two minutes after 5:00 PM today (hopefully the prof doesn't decide to be a hard-ass about that-stupid web-based assignment submission system!) I have turned in my last assignment. For my last class. Of my last semester of graduate school.
Or, more succinctly, DONE!!!!
I'd be happier if I didn't need to worry about that professorial ( Read more... ) -
Dagnabbit
Today in "things I do not like about semester wind-down": asymptotic approach. Why can't I maintain a constant velocity? Why??
Oh right, because I burned all my reserve fuel getting through Monday and Tuesday. Blast.
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That Time of Year
Back from AnonyCon! Which I appear only to have been to four times? Seems like more, but probably isn't, when I stop to think about the logistics of it all. Which means that I met alanajoli and Twostripe exactly (if not precisely) three years ago, which also seems bizarrely like both a longer time and a shorter time than it's possible for me to have ( Read more... ) -
Does not compute (no pun intended)
Monday: holmes_iv receives back his homework for his graduate seminar (a somewhat open-ended question about that week's reading), with the note "fewer words next time."
Friday: holmes_iv begins to work on the next week's homework, which reads roughly (for question 1 of 2) "write a valid C program of under 100 lines that maximally exposes the performance issues with ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Colbert
Given which one of them is older, and probably has had the look going for longer, is it fairest to say that Norah Jones seems to have something of an outlawradio look going on? Or should I just confine myself to saying "daaaaaaaamn?" -
Possibly underreported sports story
Zack Greinke's Cy Young Award is not, of course, underreported. But some folks may have missed an interesting detail toward the end of this article, which is that he missed an entire season being treated for social anxiety disorder.
He seems like a huge geek in a number of other ways, in fact, so this is not entirely surprising, but I feel like it' ( Read more... ) -
Just in case Ori hasn't seen this yet...
The writer behind Secret Life of a Call Girl has been revealed to be... a doctoral student in neurotoxicology. My favorite part is where she says that prostitution was a more pleasant job than programming computers. ;-) -
Whoa. Dude.
I just e-mailed in my (allegedly) final piece of graduate-school paperwork.
Because the deadline for this paperwork is Sunday.
Because I'm going to be done with graduate school in seven weeks.
Buh? How the hell did that happen?
In other news, my track adviser looked at my track-completion form, asked me how I'd done in Advanced Databases, and asked ( Read more... )