Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at
A biting cold, pressing crowds, a barrage of sound, hints of snow filtering past enormous buildings, a touch of music, a place to lay a tired head.
Hello again, New York. I’m back.
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at
And here I stand on a cusp, peering down into a squall . I myself, my core, will make it through: just as certainly, I won’t make it through unscathed, emerging a changed person.
For the better?
Let’s make it so.
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at
A contrived world I find myself fallen into: a little light filters down through the haze, barely illuminating brazenly artificial structures that I must scale, to reach the overworld once more. My current guide brings forth a feeble light, and leads the way.
Why this particular task is a rite of passing for our culture, I cannot say: glimpses of the overworld afforded to us show me and my brethren who also undertake this task that the mountains we will climb after exiting this cave are natural, lacking the sharp, geometric corners and flat faces that make up these artificial counterparts.
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at
You know what, I just wrote a ton of stuff covering some projects, like dod3catgraph and pensievr, and also documenting my time at Redwood Systems. I’m counting that as four days of writing, because it is a ton of writing, and unfortunately I’m the one holding the reigns in this particular regime. I still have to put something out for today, though, so heads up for a post soon.
Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at
Another week, another meta-review.
No, I'm not going to do a meta-meta post. A Year in Review I have qualms about using lists as a lazy shortcut for miles of prose: however, I am a programmer, and as such will take lazy shortcuts whenever (including now). Thinking back to the writing of the post, I mostly pulled the events populating the list previous blog posts, which is biased: it does get most of the major events, though.
Posted on Friday, January 6, 2012 at
What did I watch? Why? All these and more will be answered forthwith!
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol I know, I know, I’m giving money to the Scientologists, I’m sorry about that. However, I think I deserved a pass if not on the fact I just enabled the immaterial spirit of Ron L Hubbard to chuckle a little louder with the sound of Xenu’s coffers filling, but for the fact I had the gumption to watch a mindless action flick at all.
Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at
Upon reflection, I realize I had planned to have a job tied up much sooner, and not still be planning out my life after school going into my last semester. Or, perhaps I have a skewed sense of when it makes sense to hire people. Usual employees don’t plan out 8 months in advance when they are going to switch jobs: it seems the rush to snatch up graduates has pushed recruiting efforts earlier and earlier into the semester, and I’ve been anchoring on that time frame.
Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at
I’ve re-blocked my list of procrastination sites. I’m starting to get back into the swing of making things, and these sites are preventing from getting my high. We’ll see if it helps: hopefully, I’ll release something small soon.
Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at
This semester is the first time I felt really panicked about my academics. Well, maybe there was that one time I actually failed a class back in high school, but it was over by the time I realized it, so there wasn’t much to be panicked about.
The reason? I tried to not care as much about my grade, since grades aren’t what drive either what I end up doing in life, and because optimizing for grades usually excludes optimizing for happiness.
Posted on Monday, January 2, 2012 at
As is tradition, New Year, new resolutions. This year, I resolve to:
Make some noise: I'll code whether or not I put it down as a resolution, so I'm not worried about that. However, getting myself off the ground as a computer musician is a much more variable prospect, and it may as well use a push, however small, from making it a formal resolution, declared in public. Read more books: I read plenty of things on the internet.