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Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Long Run
This was such an epic event I had to post about it: last Saturday–the 25th–The Lady and I ran a local race called the Spring Thaw. It’s a neat race in that the track is a 5-mile loop around the … Continue reading
“The Daily” Final Thoughts
I wanted to put down a few final musings to wrap up the previous 7-day sweep of daily events to put it all into a nice, neat context. As for exactly what context that is, I leave that as an … Continue reading
Sunday, February 19, 2012
7:35am: Wake-up. Blerrrrrgh. 7:40am: Restart the Mahout job that met a premature demise when my desktop locked up. I want to see if I can get results out of this. 7:55am: The Lady picks me up. We’re off to the nearby Frick Park … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Exercise, foooooood, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged bagel factory, bagels, chipotle ftw, chipotle: always a good decision, church, drupal, frick park, general jack o'neill, gotta love them hills, heartland institute is a waste of space, inverse harmonic oscillation, kitty, mahout, mass, numpy, physics, richard dean anderson, ronon, running, stargate atlantis, thesis, Ubuntu, underlings, video input driven animation, virtualization, you're a kitty
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
8:30am: …why am I awake this early? 9:00am: Yeah, definitely going back to sleep. 10:40am: Feeling much better now! Let’s have some breakfast. 11:00am: Hmm. Looks like my domain name was finally deactivated. Over a year ago, I stopped payments … Continue reading
Posted in Daily, Exercise, foooooood, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged bagel factory, bagels, bike ride, domain name, don't be a dick, drupal, magsolweb, mahout, my drunk kitchen, quinoa, sauvignon blanc, sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep, sleep, virtualbox
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Friday, February 17, 2012
5:56am: I bloody hate when you wake up just before your alarm. I had literally just come out of a dream (of course I can’t remember what it was now, but at the time when I popped awake, I could … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged belgian food is teh pwn, breakfast, cats all the way down, cell and systems, computational biology, early freaking wakeup, gates hillman complex, ghc, how it should have ended is awesome, my drunk kitchen is awesome, om nom nom, outofmemoryexception is not awesome, point brugge, point brugge is literally the best restaurant in pittsburgh, racquetball, reddit, reddit blows, weightlifting
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:30am: Woke up. Wow, apparently I really was burned out from yesterday. 8:23am: Received a notification that the Berlin Buzzwords conference has chosen its keynote speakers. Really like the lineup! Leslie Hawthorn was the GSoC program manager awhile back and … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Exercise, Graduate School, lolcat, movies, Real Life
Tagged berlin buzzwords, bicycle, burned out, burning the candle at both ends, csm, garbage disposal, google summer of code, GSoC, how it should have ended, leslie hawthorn, mountain lion more like mountain of ios bs, running, sean connery is watching you pee, spicy black bean pasta makes everything better, sybil, the couple who game together stay together, the hunt for the red october
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
5:00am: Yes, 5am: wake-up, rise and shine, IT’S GOING TO BE A *$T(*@$GWJL@+@#*$@ DAY! Mainly awake because The Lady wanted to hit spin class at her gym before work. Figured I’d go ahead and get up too, since today is … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Exercise, foooooood, Graduate School, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged apachecon, cell and systems modeling, dropbox, drupal, early bird gets tired too soon, early freaking wake up, elliptical, google docs, hadoop, hunt library, journal club, landlord drama, mahout, opras bees, physical therapy, podcast, public key cryptography, rsa, skeptic's guide to the universe, spring thaw, weightlifting
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
7:00am: Wake-up! Gave myself a bit of a treat, as I apparently needed sleep (as evidenced by yesterday’s late wake-up). 7:30am: Head out for Carnegie Mellon. Finish up the episode of Science Friday about meteorites from Mars recovered here on Earth. … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Exercise, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Real Life, the fam, The Lady
Tagged 11/12ths pi day, class of 2010 mailing list is off the hook, coffee, coursework, ellptical, erg, happy 11/12ths pi day danimal danimal, hot tub, i heart jon stewart, inception, journal club, less complaining more sexy rumpus, npr, physical therapy, research, rowing machine, science friday, skype, teaching assistant, valentine's day, working out
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Monday, February 13, 2012
7:29am: …asdfjk; whaa? What time is…WHY IS IT 7:30 IN THE MORNING. WHY DID MY 6am ALARMS NOT GO OFF. Oh, I turned them all off; I must have been “woken up” by the first one, shut the rest of them … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming, The Lady
Tagged apache mahout, asserting marathons cause adverse effects is parroting bad science, autoregressive models, bst3, cmu, cmu@qatar, ira flatow, kernel panic, lolcats, mahout, morocco, physical therapy, qatar, relevant to my interests, rodney mckay, science friday, sleeping in, stargate, stargate atlantis, the underlings, valentine's day
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Matplotlib + Lion = Matplionlib?
In a week marred by endless work, I wanted to take a moment to recognize a small triumph. I spent several hours working on this over the last few days–and many, many hours spread out over the months before it–and … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Internet, lolcat, Programming, Technology, Tutorial
Tagged apple, apple likes to include its own version of just about everything which of course is missing something crucial when it comes time to actually use it, homebrew, i'm reasonably sure this works for the most part the majority of the time probably, macports, matplotlib, numpy, or so many hours that i could have spent sleeping, os x 10.7, os x lion, python, scipy, so many hours that i could have spent actually accomplishing something
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Theatre of Consciousness 