Monthly Archives: December 2006

I finished my homework assignment for my programming class. It doesn’t quite work, and I can’t quite figure out why, but it’s definitely good enough. I’m not actually sure that it could be made to work any better. I went … Continue reading →

Last night I saw “The Queen” with Paul, Rebecca, and (accidentally) Graham. I thought it was really excellent. There’s not much about it to describe, except perhaps to say that it is very traditionally British in its complete and careful … Continue reading →

I broke through the major roadblock on each of my two major projects of the moment (homework assignment and Dad’s office installation). Both are now in the same state, with the initial step finally complete, ready for the real work … Continue reading →

I spent today hard at work. I went in to my dad’s office to start on the system upgrade project. Progress was slow. It took an hour and a half for the RAID controller to initialize the new drives (two … Continue reading →

My dad and I went to my cousins’ house for christmas eve. It was lovely and fun, and the annual feast was excellent (home-made pasta!). They gave me a messenger bag as a present whose fashion value exceeds my entire … Continue reading →

Fortran is a strange language. For example, you can pass a function to a function, but you can’t return a function from a function, so functions are halfway first-class objects. And you can only pass a function as an argument … Continue reading →

Today I dropped in at my dad’s company for an hour, for free Christmas lunch and to prepare for helping out with an office software upgrade. It seemed kind of alien, as it always does when I visit the company. … Continue reading →

I got home (to Westport) last night. I spent today wandering around my high school, meeting all my old teachers, which was tiring but fun. The school’s facilities are fantastic, almost ridiculous. I left a key homework assignment in Boston … Continue reading →

Last night I went out to dinner with my Grandparents, which was lovely, as always. I spent meeting with my math professor and doing a (unrelated) assignment for his class. The assignment may mark the first time that I have … Continue reading →

Term is basically over. I took my final today (terrible), and just sent in my paper. All that’s left to do is two big homework assignments start to finish before monday, and then another paper for January, all for my … Continue reading →