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Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
I am currently driving from Indianapolis, IN, to the Bay Area. Updates will be posted here periodically. 26 May: left Indianapolis at noon, stopped for the night in Springfield, MO.
I just finished submitting my master’s thesis. Just thought you all should know.
Flight 4, ed. Kazu Kibuishi Perdido Street Station, China Miéville
The music for Area 5 of Rez, the Dreamcast game… samples Marlena Shaw’s “California Soul”: (This post is partially to test out 1 Pixel Out’s Audio Player Wordpress plugin.)
I’ve twiddled my blog theme a little bit. Begone, Verdana! This shop is all-Helvetica now. Inspired in no small part by the typographical shenanigans of Douglas Coupland. The background image was taken from the always wonderful stock.xchng and edited with Acorn. Let me know if there are any wrinkles that need to be ironed out.
I got bored this weekend and threw together a little toy program in Python demonstrating minimal spanning trees of vertices uniformly distributed on a sphere. You can download it here. To use: Download and install Python 2.5 and PyOpenGL. Download and decompress globe.tar.gz, and cd into the resulting directory. Run the program with python2.5 globe.py N, where N [...]
The folks at BoingBoing posted an interesting puzzle about a duel between three gunslingers of varying accuracy. I have a hunch that you want to shoot the 100% shooter, but I would like to crunch the numbers before I am sure. Maybe another post for later. :) Today is laundry day, and I don’t like to [...]
JPod, Douglas Coupland Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris One of the websites about Getting Things Done noted that the system will not help with motivation — it will not make you want to get your work done. I find that this is very true in my case. There’s an interesting paragraph towards the end of Letter to [...]
Stardust, Neil Gaiman Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (tr. Philip Gabriel) Also, I’ve imported all of my books into Delicious Library. It’s nice to see them all together in one place electronically. I translated an interview with a Brazilian traveller who was detained for 30 hours in LAX [...]
On the last day of WWDC 2007 I took the Caltrain home from San Francisco. As I was sitting there trying not to fall asleep, I heard an approaching northbound train blast its horn, and I noticed that the apparent pitch of the horn went down by a perfect fifth as it passed us, due [...]
Let’s go shopping!
Tai-Pan, James Clavell Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter (finally!) Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman Demian, Hermann Hesse The Worthing Saga, Orson Scott Card Cerebus, Dave Sim (just the first “phone book”) Passed the algorithms qual last week. The only one that’s left is the one for Architecture, on Thursday, and I’m not too worried about [...]
Qual #2, Programming Languages, is in the bag. My next qual (Algorithms) isn’t until Wednesday, so I get a bit of a breather. Time to finally submit that NHS DHS fellowship application, I guess.
I passed the OS qual. Three more to go � next one is Programming Languages on Friday.
First qualifying exam is today at noon (computer operating systems) â€â€? wish me luck, ’cause I’m gonna need it.
Shogun, James Clavell Microserfs, Douglas Coupland Reading has slowed down somewhat, partially because I’ve been busy with grad school (in both good and bad ways) and partially because Shogun was a bit of a beast to read (around 1150 pages). Nevertheless, I’ve got Tai-Pan (the next book in Clavell’s “Asian Saga”) in the queue. I think maybe [...]
I wasn’t kidding when I said I’d be busy â€â€? between grad school classes, grading papers and coding projects (the horrors of which I’ll save for another post), and generally keeping my apartment in order, I’ve had a bit of shortage of free time. Maybe it says something about my lack of reasonable priorities that I’ve [...]
The Russia House, John le Carré Flight 2 and Flight 3, ed. Kazu Kibuishi The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad The Friar and the Cipher, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone (thanks, Dan!) Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Grad school has gotten off to a good start. The course I’m a TA for, “Data Structures and Algorithms,” is historically a [...]
via metafilter Classes are going pretty well, though the books are still too damn expensive (around $100 for each class… I don’t ever remember it being that bad at Purdue). I just cleaned up the apartment last night, and it’s all shiny and stuff. Ooh, shiny. Some interesting links I’ve come across lately: Some Belorussian site with a [...]