Month: March 2004

How did I not notice this before? I’m deformed!!!! “It’s My Life” from Crush by Bon Jovi

-Tried chocolate soy milk -Left AI homework to last minute, forcing me to stay up very, very late… again I have gotten so little sleep this week. It’s mostly oraclebot’s fault. I hope you’re all happy. Nick sleep now. “Bring Him Home” from Les Misérables by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg & Herbert Kretzmer

So last night when I was getting ready for bed, I forgot to take my cell phone off of my belt before removing my pants. It popped off and fell to the floor with a rather nasty crack-with-piece-of-plastic-flying-somewhere noise. Thankfully, the $5 belt clip took the brunt of the blow; unfortunately, the piece that broke…

——– — This is what happens when you work in VHDL for 9 straight hours — after already working 4 hours this afternoon ——– library ieee; use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; use ieee.std_logic_arith.all; — who am i? entity nick is port ( clk : in std_logic; — the clock is ticking food : in std_logic; — nick is…

I suppose this only applies to those of you who are on-campus, but enh… After a very, very long closure, the media lounge is finally open! Fritz got us set up with 10 automatically installed Linux boxes, we’ve got new shelves, we’ve got new wiring to the server room, we’ve got a brand-spanking-new super-delcious G5……

Edited to add a cut for this larger-than-expected post… My Name Nick You’re just about everyone I know Nicolas You’re one of my older relatives, or you’ve never met me, or you only know me in a formal context. Variations Nicholas You’re an idiot, or you just had my name dictated to you off of…

Here is a huge journal update from my spring break trip to New York City with my sister and one of her friends. It was an excellent vacation, and I had a lot of fun. I wrote most of these entries the evening of the relevant day. Day 1 is Saturday, March 6th. Day 1…

I just got back from New York. I had a wonderful time seeing the sights with my sister and her friend. I’m nearly done with the big journal entry covering the entire trip, and later I’ll upload a bunch of pictures to my website, and post links here. Right now, I’m going to try and…

My Onion horoscope for this week: Scorpio: (Oct. 24—Nov. 21) The aliens will happen upon our planet’s electromagnetic transmissions just in time to catch your first-round exit from Jeopardy! Perfect… on so many levels. The first time a horoscope (albeit a fake one) has applied to me ;o). Sleepy, no more drinky. “Ana Ng” from…

I forgot to mention this last night, but Fritz and I have gotten funding so we can attend the CHI conference in Vienna, Austria in April to present our paper. This is so unbelievably awesome!!! A big thanks to the foundation of the dead Swat engineering alum (I forget his name at the moment) who’s…