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Category Archives: The Lady
The toxicity of Facebook
Of course, everything I discuss here can be generalized beyond Facebook, but it is arguably the biggest perpetrator, and therefore the easiest example. I’ve made similar posts before, but today’s content is decidedly more personal. Why Facebook brings out the … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Occupation, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged building connections more like building political hatred, even though i would love nothing more than to perma-delete my facebook with extreme prejudice, facebook, facebook is le suck, important things shouldn't go on facebook, ipso facto nothing should go on facebook, oversharing, pittsburgh, reality would seem to dictate i have an account, we heart pittsburgh
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Hashtag please stop
“So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor” This is supposed to be a joke. But sometimes I wonder. WARNING: This post is going to feature my pragmatism in … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, random, The Lady
Tagged every other possible combination of hashtag, hashtag, hashtag hashtag hashtag, hashtag overload, hashtag saturation, i heart the oatmeal, in case you were wondering these tags are ironic because good luck finding this tag anywhere else, my goal in life is to use internet services literally in the opposite way they were intended to be used, quinnwitz ftw
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Necks are absolutely essential
Because without them, I would’ve forgotten my head somewhere by now. But probably wouldn’t have even realized it yet. This week has been a whirlwind. My collaborators and I are trying to get a research paper out (or, at least, … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Mathematics, Programming, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged brute force search, combinatorics fail, i wonder if the nsa has zettabyte storage, mawage is what bwings us togethah, n choose k, powerset, python, scatterbrained, strugglebug, yes i could have used a python generator thank you captain useless input, zettabyte
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Weddings: the best and worst
Everything you hear about wedding planning really is true; obviously there’s a continuum and everyone’s mileage will inevitably vary, but you’ll more than likely run into some person or another airing their dirty laundry. It sucks. It sucks that the … Continue reading
Posted in Real Life, Religion, the fam, The Lady
Tagged bible thumpers, catholicism, christianity, fundamentalism at its worst, hate hate hate the subservience line, i can respect beliefs i don't agree with but i can't respect illogical arguments, judaism, literal interpretation of the bible: you're doing it wrong, receptions, religion, save the drama for your mama, this isn't even interpreting the bible literally it's making shit up out of thin air, weddings
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Routines are boring
…but they are also conducive to productivity. Just sayin’. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks since moving into the new apartment. No, the moving isn’t finished yet; still quite a bit to go. The key, I suppose, is that … Continue reading
Moving
It sucks. Unless you love books, of course. Quite literally the morning after my successful thesis proposal, The Lady and I started the day-long process of moving our respective items from our respective apartments into our swank new two-bedroom pad. … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Internet, Occupation, Real Life, Research, Running, the fam, The Lady
Tagged achievement unlocked: thesis proposed, awesome new apartment is awesome, internet owns, kitty invented a new kind of yoga specifically tailored for kitties, moving sucks, pad thai and beer, stargate atlantis, stargate makes unpacking just a little more bearable, stargate sg-1, stress
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Day 46: Ph.D. Candidate
I am officially a candidate for a PhD in the joint CMU-UPitt computational biology program. What a whirlwind. This also concludes my “daily photo” postings. In all honesty, I’ve enjoyed these little blurbs; I think it really has helped keep me … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily Photo, Graduate School, Real Life, Research, The Lady
Tagged i have a dozen donuts your argument is invalid, insert joke here about graduate students not knowing what a vacation is, my advisor > your advisor, new apartment is baller, so excited for the new apartment, thesis proposal, thesis proposal = pwned, thesis title fits in a tweet ftw, time for a break
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Day 45: The night before
Today was one of those days where you catch a glimpse into just how many people really care about you. I arrived this morning to this bag of donuts from the nearby hippie donut shop, courtesy of my cubicle neighbor. … Continue reading
Theatre of Consciousness 