ThePanda

Amusing how problems change to counter your predictions, this could be in part because of one of the Hitchhiker’s Guides pronouncements, “the moment someone begins to understand the universe, the universe rapidly degenerates into an altogether more complex place”, and well where if not in problems, does the true meaning of the universe lie. It is the day after Thanksgiving, one which has been altogether different from last years, one where I joined something like ten other people for umm an actual (?) Thanksgiving dinner, and listening to amongst other things, Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Heavy Metal Christmas, which despite its name I can thoroughly recommend. This has been a somewhat nice Thanksgiving break, though I have lesser amounts of code written so far than I had hoped for, which probably means I’ll be spending a larger portion of tonight, tomorrow and the day-after coding. No the STL is not a problem, in fact over the years people have done an amazing job of documenting it, no it is Intel’s PNL that is the cause of my current woes, it being well documented in a way that every major function has been ignored, and leading me to rely to an unholy extent on example code, which is perhaps the way hackers usuall hack, but come on, it never hurt anyone to provide good documentation for their libraries. Lulling me into a falks sense of security by providing documentation which is unusable does not bode well for people/me :D.

It snowed Wednsday night, and into early Thursday morning, with the coming of snow I am happy to report we finally have winter. For a while there I was worried about where the winter had dissapeared, it is not exactly natural to have really warm 70 degree weather at the end of November, while still in the northern hemisphere, specifically in parts of the northern hemisphere where such things as snow are to be expected…

I have been spending part of this break (that would be the part where I am not sleeping or eating, sound familiar, well OK there’s also the small amounts of coding, and wadling through code which needs to be better written) reading stuff by Isaac Babel, and while I like most of his writings, he doesn’t quite fit into my view of Russian literary authors. For one he’s both a pre- and post-revolution author, having been killed during the purges ordered by Stalin, however he doesn’t write like any of the other Russian authors I seem to have read. He complains of the Tsarist treatment of Jews, and anti-semitism in pre-revolution Russia, but yet does not seem to either embody as much of the anoyance, or anger some of his contemprories do, he seems to be content in skating along the line of accepted doctrine, and not complaining to an extent where his books would be banned, something which is very different from most of the other Russian authors affected by the purges. Well the book says he was a big follower of Gorky, and I really haven’t read too much Gorky, and most of what I remember about Gorky is the disdain with which Solzenithsyn describes him in the First Circle, and I like Solzenithsyn, and he seems to think of Gorky as this author who toes the official line, who wrote for the party bosses.

I have been watching parts of Firefly, the TV series on which Serenity was based, and while I admit that due to circumstances not entirely controlled by me, I have never actually seen the movie, but the TV show so far seems like fun, it has the requisite Farscapish attitude to life in space, while still not being Farscape (fewer creatures involved, though there are certainly characters who resemble some of the characters from Farscape, there’s definitely the Trillian like character, the inocent, but not naive ship mechanic, there are others out there, sure as hell beats wading through example code for the PNL.

We are going through the entire Secret Santa exercise again this year, ooh what fun, except people almost brought in exclusion lists, there being people they did not want to give out gifts to, there being people they did not want to receive gifts from, amusing what living together does. It seems like every nightmarish scenario we ran over last year as a part of arguing whether the house was a good idea or a bad one has come to bear out on us already, and the first semester’s hardly over. I have never been happier at people leaving, and going their separate ways, and writing towards the end of this break, I am not really happy about imagining people coming back to the house anytime soon, sure it is inevitably true that they will, but I do not wish to have them back this soon…

Hmm I feel like eschewing words of wisdom on coding practices which suck. Do not for the love of God, ever equate ints and pointers in C, or C++ code, I am sure you have a valid reason for getting an address into a numeric data type, but some of us people who work on university computers end up working on 64-bit machines (with certain of the new Pentium-4 class, Prescot machines supporting a 64-bit mode, this is not exactly rare, and umm ClawHammer and SledgeHammer, ehem excuse me, Athlon64s, being out for a while, there is no excuse for you not knowing about 64-bit machines) which have Linux kernels compiled to use 64 bit modes, and it really is quite a pain explaining to your machine why a 64 bit data type (pointers are 64 bit long) is being squeezed into a 32-bit (ints), and when your oh-so-cool library happens to be accessible in 20 languages, and other such things, it isn’t exactly easy going through figuring out such changes and then changing the ints to longs there, because honestly people use casts more often than they should. Casts rock and suck simultaneously.

Oh and what is up with DiskUtilities not allowing FAT16/32 and HFS+ partitions to exist simultaneously, I could swear this was OK with everyone not that long ago. Bah, Mac OSX is in serious need of some new partitioning tools, non-destructive partitioning which actually works, hmm…

So there are more than three people in the house right now, and it still is quite, with no real underlying stress points, I guess what SCE mentioned some weeks ago is true, dealing with people as individuals is so much better than dealing with them as a group. Oh well, I am going to cross my fingers and wait for all of them to come back, wait for the trenches to be reinhabited, and wait for the mines to be laid again, and perhaps familiarity and a break would have made people saner.

Ze Panda

This entry might have spelling errors, one of the sad things about not being on a Mac while writing a blog entry is that no curly red lines show up on plain text editors, and I am really not going to open up AbiWord to type this stuff out. OK strike that, I just opened up AbiWord, so we can have cleaner spellings, yay for that, I hope anyways. This is kind of strange, I am at the CIT because I wanted to get through homework, so I really shouldn’t be typing a blog entry, but I am sort of bored and unable to concentrate, so this is somewhat helpful, I don’t know, is strange, I am at the CIT, one of my most favored non-humanities buildings (the humanities, some of them anyways have better, older buildings) on campus, and I am here doing math homework, as a potential, I am going to file concentration, math concentrator, and yet I do so while sitting on comfy facilities provided by the CS department for CS researchers and grad students, so is sort of strange. There are other things which are strange, as I have been reminded a few times over the last few weeks, this is like the month before I turn 20 and stop being a “teenager”, which in itself is a funny concept, because I am not really sure about what I have done as a “teenager” or as anything else, so is sort of funny.

Nice thing about living in a house with people who have different experiences is that you can usually bitch about stupid officious people from your country and still find someone who supports your claims, well OK in the case of India, that’s not really a hard thing to do, so so much for that, but it’s still nice to be able to call your own Minister of External Affairs a stupid officious person who gives awful speeches and have people agree with you and add to the heaps of bad reviews he has gotten so far. So, yesterday we had Natwar Singh come in and deliver a speech at the invitation of the Watson Institute, another one of those things named after Thomas J. Watson Sr. As usual I got a bunch of questions about whether people should go there or not, a bunch of people who were really interested in going, and a bunch of people who couldn’t care less, and of course we had NTM who said his parents believed Natwar Singh was an officious, interfering bureaucrat, which seems to be an apt description from what I have heard of him. I stumbled across someones notes from the speech today morning, and they were sort of interesting, there was a mention of the fact that it was boring, and an unanswered question about how any part of the speech differed from what most Indian textbooks could tell you anyways, sort of true and interesting in a funny sort of way.

So I am still paying taxes despite being a full-time student now, this confuses and kind of annoys me, I guess it’s good for me to do so, and at least it isn’t half as much as it was last time, but still like 20 bucks from my paychecks is not a pointer to good times, there’s so so much that can be done with 20 bucks, but whatever, they want that money, they take that money, it isn’t as if I have much of an option, bah… I did finally take to walking around with my camera in my pocket, and I have come across things that I really wish to photograph, but then there is the obvious question of whether I want to risk photographing bikers sans permission, or risk my neck getting permission from said bikers. Well, fine I am following a stereotype here, and most of the bikers on Thayer are probably nice, non-homicidal people, especially seeing as my direct non-student boss at work is one of those bikers (complete with gigantic tattoos, and stuff), but umm it still is sort of scary to approach one of them, and ask for permission. Bah, need to find other things to photograph, photography is nice, and I kind of miss some of the walking around a city photographing random people shit I did right before I came to Brown, it would be sort of intriguing. HCA seemed sort of interested in walking around with me and taking photographs, which would be fun, seeing as we sort of have identical cameras, but ummm, there were things which happened last night which I kind of want to process before I actually get back to either her or ADC about anything which requires me being anymore social than talking to them. Hell I need time to process things before I get back to being anymore social than sit there and talk with someone with most people. It is intriguing, I want to photograph only so I don’t have to really know people, just take pictures so I can look at them, I am finding certain people to be extremely condescending of late, and a lot of the holier than thou attitude going around which is probably why I am sitting in the CIT on a Saturday afternoon doing homework, I doubt anyone would really trouble me in my room, my roommates (yes that does come in the plural) are generally nice, supportive, fun people, but umm ya… I guess I am just annoyed about all those comments on what is and is not good for me, or anyone else, seeing as I find a bunch of thing other people do annoyingly unhealthy, but don’t exactly take to going around telling them how unhealthy they are, telling other people about it, finally leading to a whole bunch of people being weirded out by not so strange things. I have had times when I have wanted to scream at the next person who tells me about my drinking soda, like well, so many people believe sodas, especially Coke and Mountain Dew are bad for you, but those same people seem to manage to finish a bottle of root beer, bought by me, for communal enjoyment, in less than a day without me ever actually drinking any of it, like wtf, decide whose side you are on, and then pick what you want to do according to that, this two sided approach seems counter productive for all involved.

I guess I shouldn’t have written all of that down, but it needs to get out, there are already too many things pressuring me, I can’t take too much more, and I really don’t want to be anti-social, but it’s hard being social when people just stick to acting weirdly and not telling you what’s going on, and acting as if you are a pain to have around, and still complain about not seeing you. Oh and this is so DPS now, I finally had someone tell me I am annoying in a class which I probably shouldn’t be taking anyways because it’s too simple for me (is kind of true, but hell it’s like 4 hard classes, 1 simple class), and a semi-serious statement about how I make people feel stupid, even though I don’t try to do so. Oh well, so now this is where it stands, not helping people makes me bad for other reasons, helping people makes people think they are stupid, like what the hell do they expect me to do. Oh well OK, some people I truly believe are stupid, and I wouldn’t care if they made these statements, but this did not come out of someone who I believe is genuinely stupid, this person is far more intelligent than I am, and while it was all said in good humor, and is still taken in good humor, it feels bad to be told that you make someone feel stupid, even though you’d honestly never ever try to do something like that without feeling stupid yourself. So I know for a fact I am not TAing any CS courses next semester, I’ll apply to be a TA, sure as hell will, but I have a feeling it’s not going to work out, the TAs at the class I am officially taking, or at least one of the TA’s believes I am a “pain in the arse”, and umm I am not actually taking the second, and by far more interesting, CS course which I am sitting in on, thus leading to weird dynamics on trying to TA that course, since I haven’t actually spoken to the professor, who seems like a nice jovial old man, about vagabonding it, I am kind of uncertain about the results of such a discussion, and therefore feel continuing as such would be far more useful, to me anyways, and being somewhat selfish is one of my new resolutions for the semester.

OK homework time, I kind of want to get more done before tonight when I am going to try and have some fun…

Ze Panda

It is time to take a break from the math, even if I take a short one, not as long as the one I took yesterday when I spent far too many hours just hanging around SCE, talking to her, going to the Gate, and talking to her some more. This was like the first time I had met her since the end of summer, and post-meeting her brother’s friend and other people we both happened to know, we kind of had stuff to discuss, plus she had just moved into Pembroke, and did not know of all the many wonders this place has, the Gate being one of the big ones, so that was a longish night of talking, while sitting in front of the quiet dorm, who’s outside was not very quite, and running into both HSS dressed in shorts and jackets, a reminiscence from days gone by, think 4^th or 5^th grade, and a drunk, happy, singing person who was not singing in English, was going into the quiet dorm, and did not look very quiet. We also spoke about her work in Haskell, and literal Haskell, and it sounded kind of cool, and I finally have an answer to my dilemma of whether to use Hugs98 or GHC, and it makes some sense, so I guess I can try learning Haskell once we get to winter break, thanksgiving or whenever I have time next.

Classes, oh classes, I am not taking cryptography, mostly because it coincides with Linear Algebra, which I have been, and plan to attend all of, even though I am supposed to grade it. So I am still stuck on deciding between CS051, CS031, and MA126, each of which have their own unique reasons for why they should be taken, and reasons why the shouldn’t, and those reasons are so veritably different, that I could never really make a table and solve this problem, most of this problem does not seem to be tractable, which is OK I guess, so currently I have no less than 3 add/drop forms lying in my Analysis book, and am waiting for an opportunity to decide on which I want and hand one of them in, is amusing in my opinion. I really should have taken the Combinatorial Optimization course I picked up after dropping crypto, that might have helped me compute a solution to this problem, but well whoever came up with course timings for that particular course, wasn’t thinking about optimizing times so that more people could attend, it cuts into no less than two of my classes, I am not going to drop two other classes I was sure of taking, only so I could take a course with easter bunnies. But apart from that classes are quite fun, topology is great and the abstract class of the semester, 113, which I shall not refer to as anything other than 113 for fear of inciting gasps, is a lot more fun than I imagined, so far anyways, it’s a lot like real analysis which I remember having good time with. Differential Geometry has so far been a lot more computational than I expected, and I am not sure it gets any less computational, though it seems to be pretty fun. The people in 106 however scare me slightly, and while thanks to JKD I have a semi study group like thing going for 113, have none of that for topology or diff geometry, and I have a feeling I am missing stuff in topology, if only because homeworks are rare, and though he said all of the stuff was from chapter 1 of the book, there seems to be little correlation, I might make an effort to read up on all of it once I have the time, which might or might not be soon. German, hmm German, I am not sure I am a big fan of the immersion method of teaching I am being subjected to, I understand most (though nowhere near all) of what is spoken about in class, but then I walk out, and I am awfully confused about the pronunciation and the meanings and things, and I don’t know, I feel like I am just guessing at meanings, most of the time anyways, which may be what the method is all about but it seems somewhat scary.

Must also think about shifting to a meal plan with lower meals a day next year, if only because I don’t seem to be using anywhere near 3 a day, missing lunch most days because of the weird time my German class is at, and being scared of the long lines at the Ratty which sort of don’t allow me to get in and out and still have a comfortably long gap between lunch and class, it seems as if the only time I have been to one of the dining services place for lunch in the last few days was on the day of opening convocation when classes went out early.

I am supposed to go through pre-written code for my research, and somehow the thought of doing so makes me shudder, I am looking for approximations in comparisons, and I don’t know, I am not a big fan of reading pre-written code, I need to go through one of those books about reading code, sans which I just need to believe that reading code has good things.

Oh and for all those who didn’t know this, TV programs are actually copyrighted, and downloading one of those might annoy certain people. I was asked about this while working the phones today, I was kind of amused by the entire incident, which of course reminds me I should find out whether I can write about the funny things I run across at work, and post them here, they are really funny, and sometimes I just get annoyed enough to send weird, humorous e-mails, which are pretty much hidden references to you are stupid. I should not, especially since I get paid for doing this, and they give us these things called audit logs where we can write up things which annoy or amuse us. I don’t think I have ever really used the audit log, except perhaps to write comments on water on the keyboard.

Also what’s up with Apple not allowing people to download Apple X11 1.1 from their servers, rather insisting that people get it from the install CD, where it isn’t selected by default, it is bloody annoying to try and find someone X11 1.1 only so they can run Matlab, and be forced to tell them to dig up their install CDs, which a lot of them don’t remember anything about, and have them install it from an MPKG there.

I also just realized this is beginning to sound like an audit log, and currently I am really happy about things, and the world, the way it currently is, sure a few replies to a few e-mails I sent out earlier, and a little bit of sushi would make it better, but right now, or more precisely last night, the world was dang near perfect, good job world.

Ze Panda

PS: I was done with this entry, but the following things needed to be noted. a. TeX = awesome. b. people at Cargo, the local hiking/outdoor store which I seem to frequent more than I should = awesome. c. C and interrupts != awesome. d. I just had a lot of chocolate, and some sushi

I have a feeling I should write something before we get too far and I have to weave a yarn too long just to let people know where the yarn lies today. So let us first cover the basic points, I am back in Providence, my flight was OK, mostly uneventful (a lack of food on my BA flight was duly noted, thoughts of hatred for Gate Gourmet workers duly generated), and umm yup, I got back to Providence, the house was empty then, is occupied now, and so far it has been smooth sailing, relatively speaking of course, well smooth sailing if you disregard how much of this house is falling apart, we have had Facilities Management come in at least 5 times a week and repair something or the other, and I still have about 7 open trouble tickets on the system, kind of awful, but umm I guess that’s what you guess for living in a student house. Everything else though, has been pretty darn awesome, we have been trying, rather unsuccessfully to sneak into freshman orientation events, I met one of IAN’s friends who was really cool, and seemed to be doing well, I met TFB, and umm we played boggle, and discussed math, but mostly played boggle, and the only thing still missing I guess, is meeting all the other people I know in Providence (WNS comes to mind), meeting SCE, and umm getting to classes, which happens tomorrow, so yay for that. Oh I also met JH, and he was interesting as usual, and umm seemed a lot more sure of things than PK, though I am not sure how much sophomore year advising affects me, though I have a class meeting to hear about such things tomorrow, and I am sure that’ll be fun, when it comes around to that. I am also disappointed that I might after all, not be doing Cryptography, there were conflicts in the schedule, and I guess not doing it, and doing either Combinatorial Optimization (which is fun because it involves bunnies, and other things), or Models of Computation (fun because it involves being with people I know, some of whom would never really be seen otherwise, and is one of those CS concentration requirement there really isn’t much of a replacement for). I also got a concentration form, and when I started out with it, I was kind of sure I should fill it up, though now it’s languishing on my desk, and I have a feeling I am not really going to fill it up anytime soon, and umm, I don’t know…

Help Desk, yup I have been working for them, long and hard, since there is not much of anything else to work on currently, and umm most of the people seem really nice, at least that’s a consolation, though most of the people who I have talked to or walked around helping, have been sort of nice. And then there was this guy I was having a cough*discussion*cough about network security at Brown and the CS department with, and I am surprised. Like people are sometimes weird and anal, he believes the CS departments opening itself to vulnerabilities by allowing SSH connection in, like why the hell would people have the CS department if students couldn’t even access things in there, is stupid in my opinion. And there was this guy who freaked me out, and drove me out by talking about dual monitors and such things, but other than that it is fun, I guess, though I sure as hell am looking forward to tomorrow, when this stops being the focal point of my daytime life.

I really haven’t done that much, so there isn’t much to write about, once we get into tomorrow, and classes get good and groovy, I think I’ll finally have fodder to write about. BTW, it is not a good idea to gently rinse keyboards in warm water.

Ze Panda

This probably is my last post from Delhi, before I get back to Providence and 82 degree weather (is hot, is what Dashboard says I should expect on Saturday, though this is New England I am talking about), not that I leave tomorrow, but I leave soon, and let’s face it there really isn’t much to write about in an existence dictated by food, packing up, going out to eat, and other such things. Oh well… Today’s probably not the best of days for the world in general, it being the 10th anniversary of the launch of Windows 95, of the ‘you make a grown man cry’ fame, not that I am complaining because a little less than 10 years ago (a month, a week, not sure), me, my father, an old acquaintance who seems to have since disappeared, sat in front of a 486DX2 (state of the art back in those days), with no less than 32 disks, attempting to install said operating system, failing at least once (my memory fails me about how many times exactly we failed, or where exactly, though I remember something to the effect of the 24^th disk being corrupted), before finally installing it, and being introduced to an operating system which almost instantly booted into a GUI. The love affair was short lived, it crashed too often, ate into my computer’s resources, was slow, was not nearly as cool as the Apple IIsi my father possessed in his office, and which I had been introduced to a few years earlier. OK Apple love came later, I was OK with Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, RHL 6, RHL 7, RHL 8 (in that order), for some time before I finally went on to a Macintosh. And for those who notice this discrepancy in the list, no I really haven’t ever owned a machine which ran either Win2K, WinXP, any of the Fedora Core releases, or any other flavor of Linux, though Babbage, Fermi and Marconi, the computers I used in the i-lab at the CS department did run a Debian version compiled specifically to take advantage of the 64-bit capabilities offered by the Athlon 64. Oh well Macs are cooler, but I did once own a computer running Windows 95, I did once believe digital watches were über cool, and I did once love most things about Windows 95, so yup it’s 10 years since it came out, and well it’s no longer supported by Microsoft, go figure.

Things change unexpectedly, and I am finally also doing something semi-accademic for a job, and something which promises to be über fun. Most things require background information, and a lot of changes can be blamed on the Facebook. The jury’s still out on its new design, though I am not entirely sure I like it much, the clunky (they called it so) blue boxes were kind of nice, and umm did a better job of keeping things separated, but oh well, things change. Which brings me back to my second change… About two months ago, I had walked into this office where most of the Math departments admin staff seems to sit, wishing to sign up as a grader for math courses (I guess my thoughts were somewhat along the lines of could be fun), and umm not running into requisite person, and having to leave for Park City soon, I left a message with someone else, which I thought would work. Except no one got back to me, many days passed, and I decided that once I was back in Providence, I will go back and check up on the entire thing. Like last year they were hiring graders well into orientation week, and there can’t be too many graders anyways, and well I guess if it didn’t work out, I could always blame luck or something. Well turns out they did receive my stuff, and the powers that be got back to me yesterday, and I am now helping grade/am officially called a grader for TFB’s linear algebra class, which bears the same number as the one I took last semester, though is supposed to be more geometrical, in true TFB style, so woohoo for that. This also implies I am earning more than financial aid takes away from me, which on a whole is awesomely cool.

Work however has its weird points, I am engaged in some sort of a training exercise Monday and Tuesday, 8:30-2:30, learning about help-desking and stuff, which is kind of nice, seeing as I have little idea about what I am supposed to be (perhaps other than a help-desk monkey), though does take away from time which I had planned on spending doing other things. And I need to figure out how to get futon and stuff back to 111, seeing as I have likely lost my originally planned source of transportation. This would be easier if certain other people were inconvenienced, but umm that’s not really a road I want to walk down, and umm it leads to other problems. It would perhaps also be easier if I had a driver’s license for the US, but that requires taking a test, which requires driving on the right side of the road, which requires being in a car more often than twice a semester, which requires other things, so whatever. I also just got conflicting results from one of those blog quiz things, something which says that my primary thinking style involves me being unpredictable and unknown, while my secondary thinking style involves me being super-rational and super-logical, two properties which on a whole are irreconcilable. But seeing as knowing about Vulcan’s not smiling, and other things led to another one of those things calling me a “Nerd God” who scored above 99% of the nerd population out there, I am forced to face the utter unpredictability, and uselessness of these things. But umm I was bored, and EDK had a few posted over on his LiveJournal.

I also realized earlier this week that my flight to LHR involves sitting in a 747-400 for something to the order of 9 and a half hours, something I am not really pleased about, like 777s are nice, and comfortable, 747s are not as nice :(.

Have mostly run out of things to write about, so that is probably it from Delhi.

Ze Panda

The previously mentioned changes seem to be upon us, with a shift to Textpattern, and I plan on keeping this alive for longer than my previous ill-fated experiment with MoveableType, for one I am on a more stable server base, and am more likely to not back out, since I don’t have to do any funky copying or anything to get my words out, that was one of the biggest problems I was faced with after I lost space on Pauridge and was forced to shift over to my project space on Sourceforge, since on Sourceforge files inside of htdocs could not directly write out to htdocs itself (trouble with permissions), thus forcing me to juggle with copying files and stuff, and well I had far more time then than I do now, I was really really bored back then (true of current instance, but this lasts for like another 6 days or less), and things were beginning to settle down after the disaster that leaving school had brought, and umm playing around with computers was comforting, a source of constancy.

OK so I am not promising that there will not be a drastic cut in the number of posts within a week or so, that unfortunately has more to do with me biting off a lot more than I can chew, than this shift to Textpattern. Anyways continuing with my appreciation for TextPattern, I absolutely love Texile, which is like this non-markupish language which TextPattern seems to be promoting, yay no more triangular brackets, no more worrying about those things, no more worrying about most things, wooohoooooooo… I must also say I have gotten little (as compared to my usualy copious amounts) of sleep since yesterday when I began playing around with this installation, and I just realized that all the past entries had been meshed together into one whole block of text rather than continue as little paragraph like things, and that is sort of my fault, so if anyone hadn’t yet read them, and wants a more readable version, might I suggest moseying over to my Blogger archives or e-mailing me and stuff. Ooh and new hosting place provides cool SMTP, POP3 e-mail access for accounts on my domain, implying I can finally make real [at] thepanda [dot] org e-mail addresses for myself, though I think I’ll hold off on that for a while.

The template is still not final, I doubt it really ever will be, I am not sure I like the image used for the header, which is pretty much a rip off of the image on the original template I was modifying to come up with this one, I admit very little has been modified, and therefore acknowledgment at bottom remains as such, the academic code having reinforced such things as attribution. I realize no CC notice has gone up yet, nor has any copyright information, I plan on putting that up soon, perhaps as soon as I finish this entry, though I am alternating between jittery, over-excited, and tired and sleepy (unaided caffeine high, weird), so that may affect such promises. The disclaimer, and the advertising section is being done away with (I will put up a button for the next MIT survey), and I am attempting other cool things over the next week, whee a week to play with a CMS and continue watching TV shows, a week to being back at Brown, a week to the beginning of next year, a week to return to doing cool research, yay….

Ze Panda