Today was my first experience with car sharing (or as I think of it, mini-renting). I reserved a car yesterday so that I could run some errands today. When the time came, I walked up, waved my evil RFID card over the windshield, and off I went. It was a hybrid and an [...]

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Today’s a beautiful, sunny day, perfect for road biking. Unfortunately I seem to be way out of shape on the bike, so I wasn’t able to keep up with my training partners. Oh well, it was a nice 6 miles to start back up with.

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I have been working nonstop. Had a very interesting meeting with IBM sales reps yesterday about possible new hardware configurations for the lab. The stuff I’ve been learning in my parallel programming class really came in handy, I was able to grill the sales reps and find out exactly what I needed to know. [...]

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Ah, the joys of webcams. I just discovered today that this is one common pose I strike while waiting for my homework simulations to run.

That’s my hat I’m holding in the hand over my head, by the way.

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I’m completely swamped with work right now, trying to keep my head above water. This will be the case for most of the near future, probably up through mid May, at which point there may be a minor let-up. The immediate crisis should be over by the end of March, so hopefully I’ll be back [...]

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