Monthly Archives: April 2007

I set up a file server for the Chorallaries, to store the archives, especially of concert recordings, but also poster designs, videos, arrangements, and all other digital media. It took about 7 hours, in total. The system is beautiful in … Continue reading →

When at an Indian restaurant, do not order anything marked “homestyle”. This is a code word for “the bits of the chicken that we couldn’t sell in any of our other dishes”.

It seems that I forgot to go to class yesterday. My first class was canceled, and this so disrupted my routine that I plum forgot about the second one.

Three years ago, I went to Swapfest, a crazy electronics bazaar held once a month at MIT. It’s difficult to describe the enormity of Swapfest, or the incredible nerd concentration, but let’s say that if you were hunting for spare … Continue reading →

Today was beautiful. Upwards of seventy degrees, dry and nearly cloudless. I decided it was the perfect day to run some errands. First on my list was to buy a set of booster cables for my car, so that the … Continue reading →

As mentioned in a previous post, I broke my theory. I think I just fixed it, thanks to reformulating the problem as a Continuity Equation, specifically nonuniform linear 1-D advection. I still don’t know why theory 2 didn’t work, but … Continue reading →

I broke two glasses today. The second glass broke when I knocked it off the kitchen counter. I caught it against the lower cabinet, but it shattered and cut my hand. It looked like a big cut, but amazingly, it … Continue reading →

This afternoon was SGBIS, which stands for Spring Greater Boston Invitational Songfest. This is a stupid name. It should be called the MIT CPW Concert, where CPW stands for Campus Preview Weekend. All the student choirs (I dislike the term … Continue reading →

I got jumped. In the rain. Then I drove around for about twenty minutes. Afterward, my car started by itself, so I think I’m good to go. Thank goodness.

I mentioned before that my car’s battery is drained. What I didn’t realize is that today is Street Cleaning Day for that side of the street, meaning that, as they blared on the loudspeakers as they drove by at around … Continue reading →