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• 13.08: I'm experimenting with panoramic photos.
• 24.04: Scheme needs more semicolons.
• 11.09: This sounds like fun
• 31.07: Well, here's the skydiving video.
• 27.06: I moved this weekend.
• 02.05: On Saturday I drove to Dallas with Lisa and Erin for a Veronica Mars cast appearance.
• 08.04: If you have any programmer-geek friends, buy them this book.
• 15.02: Happy Valentine's Day, Lisa!
• 24.01: ZoomQuilt
• 22.01: I just finished re-reading the Rama series, and I was positively blown away.
• 24.07: So I'm reading about, and trying to understand im2000.
• 27.06: I've commented on this before, but here it is again: http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htmTechnology is a good thing -- it means making your life better but not at the expense of anybody else.
• 06.04: Prompted by a discussion with my dad and then Robert, I set out to determine the truth of two assertions regarding males and breast size:
• 31.03: I was thinking about spiders today.
• 10.03: Wow, look, I haven't really posted anything of value in almost a year.
• 24.02: Go is my new passion!
• 04.01: What You Can't Say
• 12.10: Quote from comp.lang.lisp, Raffael Cavallaro, Message-ID raffaelcavallaro-35EC05.21271412102003@netnews.comcast.net: This parallels Paul Graham's critique of the whole idea of program "specifications."
• 06.08: Me playing George Winston's Night: Minstrels
• 29.07: I finally figured out how to hook up my very cheap microphone, and recorded this weeks' guitar scribbles of the moment in one take.
• 27.07: Here's why depressed people don't get things done:"Imagine that we have a certain threshold of happiness, emotional comfort, whatever, that we try to maintain.
• 26.07: I noticed looking over the past few entries that I've devolved to a totally non-personal style.
• 12.07: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_770440.html?menu=news.lifestyle.fashionhttp://www.ganzfrau.ch/ (Translation: can you tell the difference?)
• 21.05: People tell me I look like Keanu Reeves.
• 20.05: I read a quote but I don't know who said it:
• 25.03: This Criticism of SQL made me wince because of the author's unknowing cuts at functional programming: "Many programmers, including me, often solve problems by envisioning how we would do it by hand, and then convert that to program code.
• 08.03: "Anti-Trust issues.
• 20.02: This book sounds pretty interesting -- it sparked a lot of discussion on whether the conservative viewpoint that "people get what they deserve" is true.
• 29.01: What's the difference between taking money and making money?
• 21.01: I've decided that part of the reason I like having cats is, no matter how crappy my day is, I can come home to creatures that, thanks to me, do nothing but take naps and play 24/7. It's a kind of vicarious enjoyment.
• 22.12: I had a revelation about why some things can travel faster than light, and why they can't carry information.
• 18.11: Ellenn Feiss, of the Apple Switch ads...iBong
• 12.11: Today I post some interesting links.
• 02.11: Zen teaches us to live in the now.
• 01.11: I'm resisting the temptation to forward this to Iza, who is a fan of Thomas Kinkade: http://www.jinwicked.com/en/art/cartoons/jinzillavskinkade.html
• 07.10: I know I haven't written in a while.
• 16.09: Networking and Miscellaneous.
• 13.09: In Italian class today, I suddenly realized I really like Italian women.
• 06.09: I ran into Paul Nichols on campus the other day.
• 04.09: Interview with God on free will.
• 25.08: So here's what I noticed upon returning to the US.
• 21.08: Okay... here's what happened the last week, straight up, no humor or anything.
• 12.08: Camilla's mother is a sort of cleaning fairy.
• 11.08: The train ride from Munich to Chiavari was ten and a half hours.
• 09.08: I catch my train in a little over one hour.
• 06.08: So, I'm getting ready to go to Italy.
• 28.07: So I just applied for some contract work with Unified Consulting.
• 27.07: Today I learned why I've never heard of a nectarine pie before.
• 25.07: Bulwer-Lytton Contest 2002: my picks.
• 24.07: If our liberties belong to us by right of birth, as a moral fact of nature, it follows that we owe the state no debt of gratitude for not violating them, any more than we owe our thanks to another individual for refraining from robbing or killing us.
• 23.07: Thought of the day: There is a life before death!
• 16.07: Witness the strange evolution of language.
• 12.07: "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
• 09.07: So, I was reading k5 and stumbled upon what is essentially a quick guide to getting laid.
• 05.07: Today we learn about Gnus and X-Face.
• 04.07: Look, I'm a tree!
• 28.06: So how about that ruling on the Pledge of Allegiance?
• 26.06: Spiegel Online has finally given me medical validation.
• 24.06: When you cut off your finger, it hurts.
• 20.06: New email address: adrian@sixfingeredman.net.
• 18.06: Iza says, by way of Jeffrey: "Oh, I forgot.
• 14.06: Cameron says: "Only one ear?
• 12.06: So, here's the story about the earring.
• 06.06: I have a new favorite language: Scheme!
• 05.06: An MIT researcher, Tony Ezzat, has developed technology that allows for automatic, totally convincing forgery of filmed speech.
• 28.05: And I ask myself, if everything's not a misunderstanding, this pursuit of happiness, this fear of pain... I believe that the reality -- the truth, that I recognize in suffering and not in happiness or satisfaction -- that this reality of pain isn't pain at all.
• 27.05: My laptop is slowly deteriorating.
• 24.05: I posted my review of Episode II.
• 23.05: Happened to stumble across Elisabeth's site.
• 13.05: Computer Virus Infects Virus.
• 08.05: In a funny coincidence, today in my Informatik Tutorübung (computer science recitation) the different programming paradigms came up; the teacher asked what the fundamental difference between functional and imperative was, and I said there are no variables in functional.
• 07.05: I am in love with Haskell.
• 29.04: I never thought my "document everything" policy would cause me problems.
• 22.04: Life is good.
• 11.04: In the hubbub, I forgot to mention that I tried to return my hair to its normal color, just a bit dark.
• 08.04: I have a lot going on.
• 03.04: Some of you may remember my attempt last year to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout.
• 27.03: I have the tingly, warm, happy sensation of making my computer do exactly what I want.
• 26.03: Get Your War On -- this is some seriously funny, dangerously caustic, often immature, stuff.
• 25.03: This morning I ran into an elderly guy just outside the U-Bahn station who had managed to get his keychain attached to his bicycle-lock cable.
• 23.03: Made apple pie, which turned out great.
• 22.03: I found a pie plate!
• 21.03: So, I spent the last three days in an anti-social funk.
• 18.03: Yesterday I hiked up Fockenstein, a small mountain just west of Tegernsee.
• 16.03: So, I'm reading The Screwtape Letters and Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness.
• 14.03: I'm very excited about Nomic (mentioned in the last entry) and the entire class of meta-games.
• 11.03: Francesco, Camilla's parents, and Francesca's brothers all came to visit this weekend.
• 07.03: Yesterday was quite exciting.
• 06.03: So, Francesca's birthday is today.
• 02.03: Yesterday evening I attempted to continue my morning successes in the form of black and white brownies.
• 01.03: This morning I made strawberry-jam-filled muffins and scones with currants.
• 27.02: What other people say about me.
• 26.02: So much has happened I'm not sure where to begin.
• 21.02: Added the recipe section.
• 18.02: You know why writers are advised to write to an audience?
• 14.02: Does pain teach you to value happiness more?
• 13.02: Yesterday was Fasching, aka Mardi Gras.
• 11.02: We saw Monsters, Inc.! It was fabulous.
• 10.02: Reading about O'Haskell and continuations gives me an incredible warm-fuzzy feeling inside.
• 08.02: The University officially closes today, and I have no idea when and whether the laptop lab will be open again.
• 07.02: Last night we went swimming.
• 05.02: Let's see... nothing especially interesting to report.
• 03.02: The weather is wonderful!
• 01.02: Unanswered questions.
• 28.01: Supreme court justice to launch morals program.
• 27.01: This is a very long-winded entry.
• 25.01: Heads up: the "Ideas/Brain" sections will be dead probably for a couple weeks; I'm rearranging files on my computer but don't have time to update my content management to match.
• 24.01: Remember Cameron's assertive love interest?
• 22.01: Yesterday I was wearing my black dress shirt and I spontaneously thought, "Hey, I like this shirt.
• 21.01: This weekend I had a lunch meeting with Christoph Schiller of Motion Mountain fame.
• 17.01: Apparently I just reinvented the technology behind most search engines.
• 11.01: Do you remember the days before MP3s? Before cable modems, ADSL, and ISDN?
• 10.01: Today: SprachDuo, relationships, and goodbye to Windows.
• 07.01: Random stuff today.
• 06.01: Here's a fun activity when you're feeling depressed or lonely.
• 03.01: I have to apologize for the rather depressive tone of my Christmas posting; I didn't feel too depressed at the time but nonetheless I sure sounded like it and I'm afraid I made people feel guilty.
• 30.12: (whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!)"What now, hungry?
• 28.12: Haldrob finarchtibul.
• 25.12: So here's how I spent my Christmas Eve: curled up in bed, "Die Gefährten" ("The Fellowship") in hand, a plate of frozen pizza and a beer on my desk, and cheesy Christmas music in the background.
• 21.12: So I saw The Lord of the Rings.
• 17.12: There is now a "recent additions" page for photos and graphics.
• 15.12: Looks like I've got my next project.
• 11.12: I bought myself a companion.
• 10.12: Funny story.
• 07.12: Well, I lied, I went and added that feature.
• 06.12: I've noticed that I seem to be getting a bit more fluent.
• 02.12: Today I officially incarnated my blog!
• 26.11: I've had Elisabeth's sleepy mermaid on my desktop for a while.
• 25.11: Work on sfm proceeds pretty well.
• 22.11: I caught myself thinking about Iza again.
• 21.11: Reading comments about the BuyNothing campaign was pretty depressing.
• 18.11: Today I reorganized all my files.
• 16.11: This is just a quick addition, since I'm now deep into my sixfingeredman.net project.
• 14.11: For the last few days I've been reading a lot of wilwheaton.net, and thinking.
• 12.11: A couple days ago we had our first snow.
• 07.11: I'm experimenting with different ways of structuring these pages.
• 31.10: Miscellaneous photos.
• 27.10: I ran around today taking pictures of things so you wouldn't think I was spending all my time holed up with my laptop.
• 14.10: Iza just told me via e-mail that she's been going out with Ryon for a couple weeks.
• 30.09: What have we learned about Germans?