Tweaked/updated my Arimaa Icon set Got a job! Internship! Whatever you want to call it! Now I don’t have to rely on intrinsic motivators to get things done! Checked out Jigsaw Renaissance and Dorkbot-Seattle at the same time by failing to get to the Dorkbot meeting in time to see most of the presentations Attended […]
So what’d I do this week? Got sick with Viral Gastroentrisis again Finished The Glass Bead Game Hit up Seattle’s Less Wrong Meetup group Finished Oryx and Crake Finished a project of mine. A small project, involving data visualization Thoughts on book reading: I don’t quite get modern literature. Or any “fine” literature, for that […]
So for each of these 13 weeks of summer, I’m going to try and wrap up what I did each week. It’s probably not as satisfying as doing a wrap-up each night, but it’s some form of review, so I’ll take it. So, what I did this past week… Walked a graduation ceremony without actually […]
It’s strange, looking back at the writing of a younger self. The things I concerned myself with are simultaneously familiar and foreign: I still cared about God, without any hints of my later de-conversion, but I would post up poorly-worded rants on terrible HTML practices in educator websites. I would whine about school, talk about […]
Hi, I’ll keep this short and sweet. I just thought this was a natural time to touch base with the blog, so… here you go. This HackNY (still sleep dep’d up from the previous 48~ hours), I actually got into a team and . It’s a basic game that leverages the Hunch API in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have to say, I was definitely disheartened by the opening ceremonies of Engineering Week here at Columbia. After coming out of Devfest, I may have exorbitantly high expectations of student groups and the events they throw, but… well, I can’t justify away the way I felt about the event that happened 15 minutes ago. I’ll pick my […]
Some forewarning: this post is going to be somewhat awkward. Okay, more awkward than normal. I’m not really announcing anything (it’s been around a week since I could’ve announced anything) and nothing is coming up (at least, nothing planned). However, it’s been 2 weeks since I’ve written anything, so I figured I should post something. […]
School starts next week, so I figured I better get my thoughts into bits before everything unravels and I start to curse my life for no good reason. First, Sparkfun’s free day was yesterday! Unlike yester-year, I got $10 out of the melee, taking the loyalty money and just running for the exits. It amazes […]