Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at
So I’ve been to Carnegie Hall twice in two weeks, and haven’t written anything about either of those events, so… I suppose I should rectify that.
First, a little background. Despite my grounding in classical music, I hadn’t gotten into Carnegie Hall in the nearly 7 months I’ve been in New York. I know, shame, shame. However, I really didn’t have any excuses during spring break, and Mahler was being played by the Boston Philharmonic, so off I went to get some student tickets.
Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at
So I decided to take a bit of time out from the programming project of death, and do a laptop review.
Depending on how you look at it, this review is either way overdue or given too soon. As it stands, I have some time to sit down and write it out, so I'm doing it now. Earlier, I reviewed HP’s dm4, and eventually decided I wouldn’t keep it, mostly because of the battery life, prodigious thermal output, touchpad, and the salmon hue the chassis took on under certain lighting conditions.
Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at
So I told myself that I’d update every single day of break with something cool and interesting. So far, it’s day 5, and I’ve only put up one post, which is somewhat depressing and not that cool. However, it does not mean I’m not getting anything done: instead, I like to think that it’s just my effort allocation that’s screwed up, with a disproportionately large amount of effort going into school work, which at this point in time I would have liked to be ‘zero’.
Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at
This past week, a couple of us techheads were shooting the breeze (yes, during midterms, and yes, the night before the algorithms midterm of death) and the turns of the conversation touched briefly on bringing programming to the masses, lingering for a few moments on things like hypercard and The Diamond Age.
The Diamond Age came up specifically because of it’s description of a Primer, a sort of interactive book meant to teach children.