Archive for December, 2005

Do Not Raise This Man

December 20, 2005

Adam Chary proposed this addition to Caro’s Book of Poker Tells: Do not raise this man I’m not a rational poker player. It’s not that I don’t understand the math behind the game. I do. The fact is, it’s just …More

Winter Break Begins

December 19, 2005

Winter break was more exciting than usual this year because Joanna came home with me and was around from the 17th to the 30th. It was the first time she had gotten to meet much of my extended family and …More

No time to pack

December 17, 2005

Because we played Magic until 4 am. Brendan, Doug, Mike, Can Sar, Seantime, and I played Magic until 4 am. It was great. I had pulled out a bunch of the old school Revised cards and made “booster packs” of …More

What a stupid idea

December 16, 2005

My CS147 Final is open laptop. No internet allowed. Given that the entire class is about common sense hidden behind technical-sounding made-up terms like “Participatory Design” or “Gulf of Execution”, the key to doing well is to determine the pre-image …More

Friday Night Magic

December 15, 2005

Last Saturday Brendan, Doug and I started playing a couple games of Magic: The Gathering by accident. We all had things to do so we couldn’t play that long, but we decided that we would play again this Friday. In …More

Nothing due!

December 14, 2005

This todo list was once as long as my screen is tall – and I have a 1600×1200 resolution monitor. Now it’s done! Weeeee… Two more finals and I’m so done with the worst quarter ever.

A’s by shear force of will.

Doug, Henry and I submitted our last CS140 project last night – miraculously with 99.7% of the tests working, despite having absolutely no time to do the assignment. To celebrate Doug, Jo, Erc, Erem and I went to Dar Bar …More

CS157

December 8, 2005

Ex.Ey.(p(x, y) & ~p(y, x) & ~p(f(x), y)) In no Herbrand Universe was there ever sorrow like this I am reminded of a blocks world,under a domain of infinite discoursewhere inductive relationships, like tears falter. SKOLEMIZE ME WITH FIRE, there …More

While the world lasts

December 7, 2005

When I was in my cradle a wood woman, a Dryad, spoke this verse over me: Where sky and water meet,Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt not, Reepicheep,To find all you seek,There is the utter East. I do not know …More