Archive for December, 2006

Done

Friday, December 15th, 2006

After 6 calendar years and brief stints in pre-law and mechanical engineering, I am officially Dr. Dan.

Booya.

T - One Week

Monday, December 11th, 2006

While some folks hate on school, I’m a fan. Yet this week, in a most ordinary fashion, marks the last week I’ll ever have as a student, grad or otherwise. That makes 25 continuous years of education. I’m either really good or really slow, or both.

I’ve got nothing to report here [...]

T - One Week

Monday, December 11th, 2006

While some folks hate on school, I’m a fan. Yet this week, in a most ordinary fashion, marks the last week I’ll ever have as a student, grad or otherwise. That makes 25 continuous years of education. I’m either really good or really slow, or both.

I’ve got nothing to report here [...]

Got you, Sorkin

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

So I’m watching Matthew Perry’s Large Head in HD last night on this craptacular show, Studio Sixty on the Sunset Strip (S4). And I’m thinking,

“This rising rage inside of me is reminiscent of something… “

Smarmy writers hugging themselvesDry, humorless wordplay based on dangling modifiers and needless repititionApplying mind blowing importance to the exceedingly banal

Ah! [...]

Up For Air

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Instead of turning my ECS Talk into an ECS Transactions Paper, I’m writing this. ECST is supposed to be a fast turnaround, web-centric (though print issues exist) easy access journal for conference papers. Yet it took them 6 months to web publish a paper that had no corrections, and you have to pay to [...]