actuality.log

You know things aren’t going entirely according to plan when your mechanisms for handling TODO lists, which document what you need to do, breaks under the load. This is quite funny if you’re looking at it as someone else, which you are. I never “do” anything, I plan to do, I plan how to do, [...]

Hmm. This is weird. I want to type something out, but just because. There is no real reason for existence for this set of words. Generally getting active(r) as a higher level mentor sort of free software advocate. I could ramble about that. icc 8 is out, and I can’t wait to get stuff built [...]

It saddens me to see how so many people underestimate how much our minds can grasp over extremely short periods of time.
Bwhahahahahahahahah. Just one more rather major hurdle, and I’m done jumping through hoops for a while. Then things like the picture of the day, verbose posts, generic nonsense and all that should be all [...]

So here’s the deal. I decide to work, but then I decide to check email. I fancy one mail on the FSF Friends mailing list and decide this is the best of times to unleash my wisdom and experience. Now all that is fine. It’s taken a while and my reply still hasn’t ended up [...]

Finally left home for a bit. Spent the last couple of days preparing myself to convince myself to think about getting things ready to work for tomorrow’s test. No matter what people say, I will NOT call it “final exam”. Test does just fine, and just makes it seem a lot more approachable. Anyway in [...]

Too tired to type. Been reading things most of the day. Pleasant surprise. Found that a paper I read had my name listed in the citations for a paper I had “co-authored”. Was happy. So here’s a bonus (and totally unexpected) picture of the day.

So the deal here is that black wall like thing is [...]

Woke. Worked for a bit. Had the usual research meet that ran for a lot longer than usual. Worked for a bit. And now I’m feeling done for the day.
No, that wasn’t odd at all. I lied.
And wohoo, apparently my handwriting does not suck. And there shouldn’t be any more pictures of the day for [...]

Click me, or don’t.

Convinced myself yesterday to complete the necessary paperwork to get an MS. (It took me long enough to convince me it was worth the 20 minutes, or so I thought it would be, of pain.) Did it today. Ran over to the academic services people here just to find out I had waited too long. [...]

Just saw this cheesily cute movie with Marisa Tomei. (If you’re reading.. “it was a cheesy movie, but the weak one didn’t change the channel cause she’s cute”, you might be right. But I didn’t say it.) It was called, hmm.. happy accidents. Even the use of profanity in it was cute, in a B [...]

I am a weak weak human being. I’m so much more than weak, it’s pathetic.
My beef with “reality tv” has been pretty well documented. But damn it, there is something about this Joe show that made me furious. That’s a bad thing, definitely bad. You have to be smart enough to realize it’s JUST A [...]

Been extremely busy all day. Didn’t get too much done, but worked. The comman man in me tells me that’s what counts. Common man. Sheesh. I wonder how they do it.
Saw the prettiest thing today. Oh yes, and this too.

Got to run again, well not literally, but I am a tad hungry. Haven’t made the [...]

Guilty enough wasting most of the day so far. Caught up on a small bit of pending emails. Hacked away on the disclaimer and dropped it down from over 12KB to just over 6KB. It doesn’t sound right at points as a result, but contains all that I want it to have, I think.
Will get [...]

Woke extremely late. Didn’t do too much during most of the day. Which is somehow magically legit cause it’s Saturday. And unrelated, V’s stuff have finally reached. Expectedly, Appa’s not really keen on him playing with any of it before his exams are done. Which is a good thing, he’s not me. ;)
Not that I’m [...]

Left work kinda early last evening. It was cold. But I needed a long walk to clear my head and generally get some thinking done. It was actually quite good fun. I ended up getting quite lost in the middle. I hadn’t realized it earlier, because I wasn’t paying particular attention to where I was [...]