Month: January 2004

  • Just a wee bit tipsy

    A brief anecdote from tonight’s pub night alternative at Geoff’s: Fritz threatened to throw me in Geoff’s closet for being silly and a bit annoying. I obliged and went in the closet myself. Geoff complained because his clothes were in there. Once I got in and the doors were closed, someone blocked the door. I…

  • Computer Languages

    Right now I’m going over an Introduction to Python for CS63, Artificial Intelligence. I don’t know why this hasn’t hit me before, but once you learn one high-level computer language, it becomes significantly easier to learn new ones. I suppose that this has something to do with the formality of such languages. They’re all rooted…

  • I’m back! And so is my e-mail!

    I just got back from 4 days in Washington D.C. participating in a Human-Machine Interface experiment using Swarthmore’s Urban Search & Rescue robots. More on that later. As it happens, we didn’t have Internet access while we were down there, so I now have a metric ton of e-mail to wade through. Here’s a quick…

  • Packed

    At this point, the only things that remain unpacked are Chronos, his power adapter, the clothes I am going to wear tomorrow, my toiletries, my coat (with pocketed gloves and earmuffs), and my shoes. The quick packing at 1 am was a nice change of pace from sitting on my butt all week. I’m still…

  • Grades Are Posted

    And here I thought this was going to be my worst semester at Swat, grade-wise. Taking three engineering lab courses can instill that kind of paranoia. I was most concerned with E72, Electronic Circuit Applications, which I felt kind of lost in throughout the semester. I tied my worst grade, with E72 coming out the…

  • My ID is fixed

    Two quick phone calls later, and my ID problem is fixed. It turns out that the clerk I talked to this summer issued my new ID as a “duplicate” instead of a “renewal” – in other words, it had the expiration date of my old ID. The first phone call got me the number to…

  • Thinking About Mortality

    The obituary for a girl from my high school was in the paper today. I had actually heard on Monday, from my dad who still works at Breck. She just passed away from some sort of sudden medical condition. She had turned 20 the week before. I did not know Beth very well (she was…

  • A Star Trek Meme

    I can’t believe JC beat me to this. Well, at least I got a better result than him :oP. You are an Akira-class Battlecruiser, every shipshould be like this. You are very versatileand can be trusted to perform any task withexcellence. Powerful, agile, and graceful.You, my friend have it going on. Which Class of Federation…

  • Sleep Schedule, Schmeep Schedule

    Today I slept from 5 am to 3 pm. That means that the sun will be setting roughly 2 hours after I get up. I’m sure that this will completely mess up my equilibrium, and I will be effectively jet-lagged the rest of the day. I did have fun things to do last night: I…

  • I Feel Stupid

    As you can see, I’m posting to my actual livejournal, as opposed to the feed. The reason I set up the feed was solely to use iBlog with my .Mac account. iBlog was one of the “free” pieces of software, so in other words, using it would partially justify paying for .Mac for this year.…