Monthly Archives: February 2009

I got pretty lost after going to the bike shop yesterday, and wound up wandering, lost, around Southern Roxbury in the freezing cold. It doesn’t seem to be a very pleasant area, at least for biking, but maybe it would … Continue reading →

I’m amazed by the intricacy of everyday life. I ran out of socks. I was woken up this morning about 7 AM, by birds chirping outside my window. This is going to happen all spring, if last year was any … Continue reading →

Last night I went to the ICCA Quarterfinals at Wellesley to watch the Chorallaries perform. It could hardly have been a more familiar event, since I participated in the 2005-6 quarterfinal that was held in precisely the same room. The … Continue reading →

I spent some time this weekend at an OpenStreetMap mapping party. OpenStreetMap is already pretty great in the Boston area, thanks to the MassGIS data, produced by the state government and made freely available, so there wasn’t much left to … Continue reading →

My friend Chris pointed out two webpages recommending algorithms for dealing with user-added ranking systems: Bayesian Rating – How to implement a weighted rating system and How Not to Sort by Average Rating. They’re both very problematic, and so I … Continue reading →

Last night was my first rehearsal with VoiceLab. It was lovely, but also shocking. (People who know me will not be surprised to learn that I misremembered the time and arrived precisely an hour late.) VoiceLab rehearsal felt exactly like … Continue reading →

Ingredients: 5 red delicious apples Instructions: Try to eat one apple. Discover that they’re yucky, grainy and kind of mushy, maybe from sitting in the basement refrigerator for way too long. Hypothesize that substandard apples might make acceptable applesauce. Wash … Continue reading →

Last night I went out to Karaoke with a few people from VoiceLab. We went to Do Re Mi in Allston, which appears to be a Korean Karaoke place. In Asian-style Karaoke, one arrives with a group of friends and … Continue reading →

You read it here first: I have joined VoiceLab, Harvard’s only (?) graduate student a cappella group. There were auditions, and they let me in, which is nice of them. I know very little about the group, but it seems … Continue reading →

Atlantic Powdercoating finished with my bicycle in mid-January, but I couldn’t pick it up until Friday. They’re only open standard business hours, and they’re in Milford, CT, so I had to miss a day of work to go get it. … Continue reading →