actuality.log

Like clockwork, my life over the past few years has been a steady sequence of steps leading up to the next major event. The next major intellectual hurdle, the next major trip, the next major purchase … . Not breaking the pattern, I’ve […]

(That’s oppOrtunities for you Northies in the audience. Sorry, just HAD to throw that in there.)
Something has happened to my computer. It has, for a while now, been surprisingly smooth, slick, […]

I’m currently working on a bunch of ideas I am trying to write up. It is just as hard to get out of random-writing-mode and into technical-writing-mode as it is transitioning the other way around. While we wait for this change however, here […]

I now assume I am a full fledged candidate.
Or something.

Related to the previous post.
UPDATE: Since one flaw was found so soon, I decided it couldn’t hurt to upload the current draft while I go start on the slides. If anyone […]

Within the next 8 days, I have to go from a being a boy without a committee, a formal research proposal, a date to defend said proposal to one with all of the above and actually defend the plan of action. Will I […]

The line between ‘white hat’ hacker and ‘black hat’ hacker is a surprisingly easy one to cross. And it’s made easier still by the lack of real security provided by WEP.
That’s […]

I’d been thinking of this just recently and I got the following e-mail in my inbox this morning (names changed for privacy).
What’s up everyone!? The athletic department is looking for physics […]

I know this is going to piss off a lot of people, but I absolutely hate (East) Asian people with (made up) Christian first names. You know, you’re on e-mail or whatever and they sign off “Jenny” and you’re like, cool, she sounds […]

dripping from a dead dog’s eye[1].
I didn’t talk about this earlier because I was concerned about coming off as a heartless prick. Now I’ve come to the conclusion it doesn’t matter […]