By andy 25 Jun 2002
got my acceptance letter from Beijing University of Physical Education (Dept. of Wushu) today. looks like i’m headed back to the middle kingdom. in typical chinese fashion though, nowhere in any of the materials they’ve sent me or on their website do they mention a) when the semester begins, b) how to register for classes, or c) how to arrange for housing.
<p>they’re not getting rid of me /that/ easily, though.</span></p> By andy 25 Jun 2002
got my acceptance letter from Beijing University of Physical Education (Dept. of Wushu) today. looks like i’m headed back to the middle kingdom. in typical chinese fashion though, nowhere in any of the materials they’ve sent me or on their website do they mention a) when the semester begins, b) how to register for classes, or c) how to arrange for housing.
<p>they’re not getting rid of me /that/ easily, though.</span></p> By anders pearson 24 Jun 2002
everytime lani comes up to visit, she leaves behind a couple of the complimentary magazines from the Delta Shuttle. usually, the tech magazines are bland Wired wannabes with fluff stories about upcoming technologies and rising dotcoms.
<p>after lani leaves, they tend to last until my next cleaning pass over the apartment when, if they’re lucky, they get a quick once-over just to make sure there isn’t actually anything of interest to me before heading into the garbage.</p>
<p>tonight i’m cleaning a little and decide to flip through the copy of <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/">Technology Review</a>. there’s an <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/tr100_0602.asp">article</a> on the top 100 young innovators (this article was, of course, depressing lani because it made her realize that at 22 years old she hadn’t yet won a nobel prize ;)</p>
<p>amongst the likes of Shawn Fanning (napster) and John Carmack (doom, quake, etc) i was quite pleasantly surprised to see <a href="http://goatee.net/">Joe Reagle</a>. Joe is a friend of <a href="http://www.miromi.org/">mimi</a>’s and goatee.net is on my regular reading list. seeing a (somewhat) familiar face in a magazine when you aren’t expecting it is kind of weird. i knew that he does all kinds of cool stuff but i never realized he was a celebrity.</p>
<p>so congratulations, Joe!</p> By anders pearson 24 Jun 2002
after drinking a lot this weekend and generally staying out late a few times too many last week, i decided i should re-hydrate myself and flush out some toxins. so over the course of the day, i drank a few gallons of water.
<p>felt good but i was pretty much running to the toilet every half hour all day. it’s hard to get programming stuff done when you can’t really concentrate on something for more than about 20 minutes before your bladder distracts you.</p> By anders pearson 23 Jun 2002
last night, lani and i got in a van with Daphne, Blair, and Angela (Angela is doing production work on a movie and was given a van for the duration of the filming so she can pick up the crew and equipment). we drove around manhattan for a while listening to nirvana and screaming obscenities at the crazy taxi drivers. then we went out to williamsburg looking for dinner. we’d planned to go to the brooklyn brewery’s restaurant/taproom but they were closed by the time we got there. so instead we went to some other ale house nearby where i had a Weihenstephaner hefe-weisse and a grilled portobello sandwich.
<p>then we wandered down to Daphne and Blair’s to watch Iron Chef while we digested our food.</p>
<p>around 2am, we headed off to Luxx again. some of Daphne’s friends who have a hip-hop duo called Moreplay were performing. stylistically they were pretty similar to Avenue D: electro beats and sexually oriented rhymes. Daphne joined them for one of their songs. pretty good show.</p> By lani 20 Jun 2002
so i mostly survived the biphysics lecture series…well, considering that i did the equivalent of bumrushing the place. they didn’t accept me for studentship but i talked my boss into helping me fund the train rides and taxi cabs. the organizer gave some kind of comment about how the students who attended were selected and special. i have to say that it was pretty funny that a bum like me worked her way into it. there were definitely a collection of interesting and talented people there. on the train ride to nyc, i talked with a german post-doc with background in statistical mechanics in chaotic systems who is taking on exactly what i am dying to see done. yay! i just hope he gets it done soon.
By quiet 19 Jun 2002
Root exploit in apache. New version came out this morning that’s not vulnerable.
By anders pearson 17 Jun 2002
jP eventually did ride the wet pink pony. lani has photographic evidence.
<p>lani’s in town for the coming week, staying with me while she attends a biophysics lecture at princeton.</p>
<p>jP came down for the weekend to visit me, lani, daphne, blair, keith, and a few other bates types. on friday night we all went to see yet another Avenue D show out in williamsburg. they just keep getting better. even had a hardcore song this time.</p>
<p>the rest of the weekend we spent drinking, eating (<em>lots</em>), and hanging out.</p> By anders pearson 13 Jun 2002
congratulations to jP for passing his qualifying exams and becoming a real, live PhD candidate.
By lani 12 Jun 2002
do you have a log of what markov generates? b/c some of them are pretty funny and the first thing that comes to my mind is top 10 list.
<p>like today’s </p>
<p>“reading trashy astrology books, connect the dot porn (don’t ask), and Oprah’s magazine (we learned how to find that oddly comforting.” </p>