Year: 2004

  • Oh Where Is My Toothbrush?

    Honestly, who takes someone’s toothbrush? This marks the second bathroom disappearance I’ve experienced this year… although the case of the towel had extenuating circumstances involving paramedics and a very sick individual. But a toothbrush? I mean, come on! If you happen to see a toothbrush that says “Calhoun Dental” and “Dr. Cornilessen” on it, let…

  • Google Failure

    I’m not sure whether to be pleased or annoyed that, when searching for implementations of scanline fill, my own computer graphics project is one of the top hits. Either way, it’s not terribly helpful to me from a debugging perspective…

  • Initiation & Sake

    Tonight was Tau Beta Pi initiation. We added to more seniors and three new juniors to the Pennsylvania Kappa chapter. I cannot go into any details of the ceremony, because I am sworn to uphold the secrecy of some aspects of the organization. As is (apparently) tradition here at Swarthmore, initiation is an excuse to…

  • Cutest Kid EVAR

    Yesterday, while I was in Hicks, I ran into Prof. Maxwell, who was there to show specs around for Discovery Weekend. His son Fox was there as well, and they were about to head out. Fox was being a good little 5-year-old and demanding to know just when they’d be leaving. Bruce and I were…

  • Going Commando

    I beat Ratchet & Clank 2: Going Commando this afternoon. I found the secret Insomniac Museum, which was cool, and had neat “deleted scenes”-type features. They had short audio commentary from some of the game developers, and some interactive bits where you could adjust the parameters of various effects (explosions, beams, pulses, and fountains). The…

  • SWIL Election Mechanics

    It seems like we as an organization have problems every year around this time. From my point of view, these problems seem to come from trying to form a single viable coalition well before the election. I understand that the motivation behind this is to create a set of SWILPresidents that will (a) “be best…

  • Bizarre Dream

    As I already mentioned, I got very, very little sleep on Thursday night. About two and a half hours. Apparently I had some vivid dreams, but I didn’t actually remember them until later in the day. While we were driving to Granite Run to see The Incredibles, Cassie pointed out a business along the pike…

  • Graphics Overdose

    I stayed up until 5:30 am this morning working on computer graphics. I still got up to go to my 8:30 class. You do the math. I realized that, of the last 48 hours, I have spent over 22 of them working on graphics. However, we now have polygon triangularization, some basic 3-D polyhedron primitives,…

  • Sad Christmas in November

    I’ve been watching analyses all night and well into this morning. At this point, I’ve pretty much lost hope. Slightly more than half of the American people have decided to side with moral absolutism and totalitarianism. If you voted for Bush (I don’t think that there are many of you out there who did), I…

  • Storm the Dorm & Election Protection

    I discharged my civic duty last night and today by helping out SVRC, the Swarthmore Voter Registration Coalition. I had already voted absentee in Minnesota over two weeks ago, so hopefully that vote has been counted properly. I wanted to get involved in helping out with the election, but unfortunately I couldn’t really commit the…