Monthly Archives: September 2007

Sync

My friend Leah gave me her mix of the recording of the Chorallaries Spring Concert 2007. It sounds beautiful. I also have three video recordings of the concert from different cameras, and I have been trying to combine them into … Continue reading

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Model

Today was the photo shoot for the upcoming Chorallaries CD. We took about a million pictures, and we will now use all sorts of Photoshop tricks to turn them into album art. That was fun. After the photo shoot I … Continue reading

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Retreat

I just got back from the Biophysics retreat, on the southern coast of Maine (which, by the way, is a really big state). It was a lot of fun, and talking to the professors was very cool. I do wish … Continue reading

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Scrape

I had my first real bicycling injury in a long, long time, today. After working at the OLPC HQ, a bunch of people were going to a Vegan restaurant. I told them I’d bike and meet them there. Instead, on … Continue reading

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Cut

I got a radical haircut this morning; I almost look military. I also got myself an MIT Alumni ID card, which made it easier to get into the OLPC offices. I spent the day debugging at OLPC, which was fun, … Continue reading

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175 North Harvard St

That’s the address of the Harvard Free Surplus Furniture Depot, in Allston. I dropped by there today, since my work in lab is stalled, pending the arrival of a 64-bit Matlab license, and the weather was nice. I was looking … Continue reading

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Fast Break

Yom Kippur Break-fast is the only Jewish holiday event to which guests are likely to arrive early.

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Done

The first draft of my OLPC project is in some sense complete, or at least ready for testing. If you’re the sort of person who likes to read Python code, you can find it here. If you have a pair … Continue reading

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Closer

I am one bug away from being within shouting distance of my first real OLPC Activity. It may soon be a very good feeling. EDIT: BUG SQUASHED. It is a good feeling.

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Double Entendre

“network programming” has two very distinct meanings, both in common use, depending on context. I’ve been doing a lot of it lately, and it’s not working very well.

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