I previously said that I would finish off LIMBO and then start doing productive things: this turned out to be a false statement. Instead, it turns out that I wanted to game a bit harder than that (and Steam sales are crazy), and hence broke some of the self-imposed constraints that I detailed in the […]

I have been the proud owner of a Kobo Touch for a bit longer than 3 months. So, what have I found? The device itself is pretty petite. Next to almost every other e-reader out there (maybe excepting the Nook Touch) it really sizes itself down and reduces itself to almost just a screen and […]

Upon finding out about Advanced Linux Programming through one of my social streams, I slotted it into the “to-read” queue and went off on my merry way. Once I got my Kobo Touch, though, I bumped up the priority on ALP because, well, it’s available as an ebook (pdf) (which I put together into one […]

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, […]

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’s been a long haul, but I’m done with Probabilistic Robotics, the beginning of my reading spree until the end of my time here at Columbia. If you don’t remember, I decided I should start a reading spree until I didn’t have access to the huge library at Columbia: hell, all that money has to […]

So. My first phone interview. Didn’t crash and burn, didn’t do fantastically well either. Just so-so. One thing that got me thinking, though, is my off-the-cuff response to “tell me about an interesting project you’ve worked on recently”, to which I launched into a brief, somewhat tangled exposition on the Reprap project. Even as I […]

Or books! I could have the top three books I was reading on me at all times, and just pull one out anywhere! I’ll never have to waste another minute of my life! What do you say, Professor McGonagall? – Harry Potter in HPMOR Now, I love the idea of e-ink ebook readers. Truly dearly […]

Well, I’ve just had solid 3 days of awesome. I guess I’ll go to sleep, or something. But before that, I suppose I should tell you about what actually happened, especially since I didn’t actually tell you blog-followers yet. I was very lucky, and got to attend IROS, the awesome-cool annual IEEE robotics conference. I […]