Death of the Letter

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

To my dearest readers:

I’ve lightly touched on this subject before, but one thing that I really do lament these days is what I consider to be the slow death of the personal letter. Here we go. →

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Another one bites the dust…

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

And just like that, the first month of the year is gone. I’ve been through three weeks of classes so far, while slowly molding my paper into the next big contribution to Computer Science. I’m obviously going to rock the foundations of the discipline with this work. I’ll even be making a poster and showing off all of my amazing science to the rest of the University at our Graduate Research Symposium. You should totally click this hyperlink. →

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I’m in love… (with WordPress)

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Every once in a while, WordPress goes and does something that makes me want to write a post about them. I was originally pretty angry that they killed the Read-o-Mattic, since I loved that tool – it was so easy to add blogs to my dashboard and read them when research was slow. While it’s possible for me to use my desktop RSS feed reader, I follow way too many blogs for that to be particularly useful for me. I didn’t particularly like the read blogs section of WordPress before, but I’m starting to like it now. And why is that, good sir? →

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Undergraduate Research

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

So today, there was supposed to be a Graduate Research Symposium for our Computer Engineering departments, but I went when they said to be there and didn’t see anyone else there at all. I was about to head home, but as one would expect, another few people came in looking for the same thing. We were all a little disappointed that we weren’t going to get any free food see the presentations by researchers in our departments that day, but as luck would have it, we still managed to have a good time. See, they were both undergraduates, coming to the event to get some insight into a possible future in research, and I was going there to meet new people. While there was no symposium or presentations, I had the pleasure of sharing some of my insight about how to get an early start on research and how to direct your studies to have a good Graduate School application. And you're going to tell us all about it. →

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Lovely Day for a Blackout

Posted on January 18, 2012 by
Protesting SOPA

We're making history over here!

Earlier today, from 8 AM to 8 PM eastern time, I joined thousands of sites and blogs in protesting two controversial bills that are in consideration in the United States Congress, SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House of Representatives), and PIPA (the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate). Not even going to put a snarky comment here. →

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