They say if you love something, let it go. Well I’ve spent about two months feverishly hacking away at problem sets and extracurriculars. But sure enough, one errant click and it comes back to me — nytimes.com — and I can’t wrench myself away. One of the most addictive things about the New York Times [...]
To inaugurate the re-birth of this blog, I’ll go back to my favorite topic — vicariously experiencing unfathomable truth and beauty. You know, the really unfathomable kind. It grabs me sometimes as my mind wanders furiously through a bus ride, only later to have a splitting headache and not remember what caused it. Or when [...]
The great thing about taking too many classes with problem sets is that one can still find room to procrastinate wildly between nights of not getting enough sleep. My reward for being behind in lecture? Migrating this blog from wordpress.com to my own host, and using the open source version of wordpress to hack up [...]
[poem visualizer, designed by me]
One in the morning isn’t always the best time to embark on programming projects of indeterminate length and scope. I learned that last night when, after having spent most of the afternoon and evening on a take-home midterm for my visualization class, I was beset with the dilemma of the extra [...]