04:35:17 Thursday April 01 2004
Yet another day. I got up early, procured myself some donuts, and got some very solid work done for Katy. I had Indian food for lunch with Lehmann. He was a bit slap happy from sleep deprivation, which made him more (not less) fun to be around. After lunch there were many meetings, all short thank goodness.

This afternoon I caught the last half of a talk entitled The Constants of Nature by Professor John D Barrow of Cambridge. I missed a lot, but his primary hypothesis was that the fine structure constant was changing very slowly (logarithmically) over time. I am not completely sure that I buy it. I am still processing.

This evening I tried to get some cs590d done, but it just wasn't happening. I need to dive into that code and fully grock, but I just can't seem to keep it all in my head at once (probably because I am uninterested). I gave up on that and spent a few hours putting together a small hack/April fools day gag for tomorrow. The grad house has displayed poorly printed copies of photos from mars and the moon in the little Plexiglas frame that resides in the elevator for several months. I have been tired of them for some time, so I replaced them with little displays depicting Hoth, Arrakis, and other fictional planets. Mine are actually much nicer than theirs. I wonder how long they will stay on display if I don't remove them.

I learned a new term today: glamourbombing
That link won't make a whole lot of sense until you understand that there are people out there that believe that they are secretly deep inside fae (a class that includes elves, fairies, pixies, and whatnot). The only reason they look human to you and I is because so many people don't believe. Glamour is a type of magical energy produced by believing in nonsense. I like the idea of random absurdist art, but the physical universe already fills me with so much wonder and awe that I don't think I will be contributing to the glamour any time soon.

22:49:33 Thursday April 01 2004
I have very little to report today. I got up, taught class, helped deliver our cs590d presentation, went to cs636. After class we held a quick group meeting to check on the state of the router. After that I returned to my office, and caught up on email. I had dinner with Lehmann (FISH!). I think he fancies the young lady working at the restaurant. Then I returned to my office to do a little work on Professor Jun Xie's project before heading home. I talked with Yakov for a bit, which is something that does not happen often enough any more, and now I am headed for bed. Perhaps I will have news tomorrow.

18:54:36 Friday April 02 2004
New Toy

04:03:39 Saturday April 03 2004
Today was not good. I called off work and went to the health center. Things are not as good as one would hope, but not as bad as I had feared. I spent the evening with Terry and Matt.

07:26:18 Monday April 05 2004
Things, in general, are not good. Matt and Sara with no 'h' are on the outs (broken up?). I have more tests RSN. Everyone's stress level is becoming too high. There was the fish incident which was really Much Ado About Nothing. Much like the Shakespeare it turned out to be one big comedy of errors.

I have been having trouble concentrating and as a result I didn't get anything done Saturday. I did get to spend the evening talking with John. Everyone should view his new webpage. I don't get enough time to talk with John any more. So long as I wasn't getting any work done chatting with John was the next best thing I could do.

Today I had dinner with Matt, Chris, and John. Note to self: Avoid Bruno's fettuccine in the future. After dinner I headed up to the office and put in 12 hours of work. I got quite a bit accomplished. I suppose it is time to grab some sleep now.

22:15:30 Monday April 05 2004
So as it turns out I am not dying after all. I mean in the Tibetan philosophy, Sylvia Plath sense of the word, we're all dying [1]. But I am not dying in the "unpleasant malignant cells decide to choke off important vital systems" sense of the word. So I suppose the world will have to put up with me for a while longer.

06:15:26 Wednesday April 07 2004
New plan:

1. Leave all network cards, magazines, novels, etc at home.
2. Take diogenese (my laptop) to campus.
3. Hide somewhere quiet and work on stuff.
4. Profit?

22:46:24 Wednesday April 07 2004
I have felt out of it all day today. It is like some kind of permanent vertigo. Perhaps I should be sleeping more. The meeting with Katy went well. We are going to get together later this week to discuss global design changes for our next phase of development.

The plan to deprive myself of a network connection seems to be working.

23:36:58 Thursday April 08 2004
I got up bright and early this morning. For some reason breakfast is becoming a more common event. I finished the notes for cs490-dsp. I did my teaching (concerning markov chains) and went to class. This afternoon I put Katy's code into a good state so that we can attack it tomorrow. Sorry about all the super short entries. Time is precious to me right now, and will continue to be for several more weeks.

03:44:23 Monday April 19 2004
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