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Category Archives: Holidays
2014: One for the books
As the sun sets on 2014, it takes with it easily the most action-packed year of my short life. I’ll spare you the gory details of in-depth retrospectives that I’m probably still too close to objectively give, and instead just provide … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Exercise, Graduate School, Holidays, i ken make living plz
Tagged academia, athens, crazy year in review, dissertation defense, five years' worth of stuff crammed into one, goodbye pittsburgh, half marathon, happy new year, i'm a ramblin' wreck from georgia tech and a helluvan engineer, job hunt, mawwage is what bwings us togethah today, moving, new year, personal record, pittsburgh, publications, publish or publish, running, the best dissertation defense is a good dissertation offense, would totally do it all over again, year in review
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Day 20: Happy 4th!
A small group of us went downtown for fireworks last night. A 2+ year construction project was finally finished sometime while I was in Knoxville, so we could actually get close to this fountain and enjoy the fireworks right along … Continue reading
Year in [peer] Review
The WordPress year in review thingy, while somewhat intriguing, is (in my humble opinion) pretty boring. I mean, who really cares about pageviews on the internet? Am I rite? So taking a page from Megan’s post, and a page from … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Real Life, Running, The Lady, Travel
Tagged air force marathon, am i rite or am i rite, bsec, capstone projects, colorado, danimal and keeley ftw, grumpy cat ftw, i guess this wasn't really much of a review so sue me, joe biden is the man, marine corps marathon, oak ridge national labs, pittsburgh great race, pittsburgh marathon, run ALL the races
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Travel during the holidays
Shockingly–given the weather–holiday travel thus far has been smooth. That includes when The Lady and I drove up to Michigan on the 20th and left on the 25th: It also includes when we returned and the snow followed us to … Continue reading
Philly bound!
Tomorrow, The Lady and I make our way to Philadelphia for Sunday’s marathon. If you’re interested in tracking my progress, I’ll be setting up a live tracking link through MapMyRun that will be available on my Twitter, which will be … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Real Life, Running, the fam, The Lady, Travel
Tagged guinea pigs make everything better, it seems like it's the middle distance folks with no desire to run longer who call me crazy, long distance runners are usually very supportive, non runners are usually very supportive, philadelphia, philadelphia marathon, philly, researchy research, runners rant, the lady will receive a box of driving talent for her birthday
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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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A new year full of…MapReduce?
If you’re reading the title of this post and wondering what the crap I’m going on about, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite quotes from the wonderful, awesome, and fantastic PBS TV show Arthur: D.W.: “Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, the fam, The Lady, Travel
Tagged arthur, arthur aka best tv show evar, autoregressive models, beat frequency, graphs, hadoop, illinois, mahout, mapreduce, matlab, morocco, nertz, nertz is the greatest card game evar, new years, python, quinn in morocco, revivals are inherently selfish on the part of the people who instigate them, technical report, we've nicknamed it the christmas conversion, we've nicknamed these instances in general "revivals"
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What’s going on, eh?
While the November weather was uncharacteristically calm in Pittsburgh, my schedule seems to be continuing its rampage toward an ever more chaotic and geographically-disparate frontier. As I struggle to pin down any sort of blogging schedule–much less a regular one–I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Exercise, Gaming, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, The Lady
Tagged analysis, apachecon, christmas, cilia, civilization, cmu, grant proposal, left 4 dead 2, mahout, obscure code, python, qatar, sins of a solar empire, thanksgiving, turkey trot 4m, vancouver, vancouver energizer 5k, videos, website
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I may be succumbing to the dark side
Remember when the Apple iPad came out? Remember how completely let down you were about what it was, and its intended function? I do. I was in my machine learning 10-601 class in the spring of this past year, eagerly … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Hardware, Holidays, Real Life, Technology
Tagged apachecon, apple, grant ingersoll, handwriting, i feel dirty for considering this thing, iannotate, imaxipad, ipad, iphone, ipod, lectures, macbook, macbook pro, machine learning, maxipad, note taker hd, note taking, organization, penultimate, pogo sketch stylus, research papers
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Theatre of Consciousness 