Monthly Archives: October 2009

I’ve long thought of Halloween, and its various traditions, as pretty daft. It seems mostly like a colossal nationwide waste of resources, engineered by the marketing departments of a few large corporations. My tune is changing, though. On Halloween, we … Continue reading →

I was in lab until after midnight last night… but that was because I had a small breakthrough, and my system is finally really working. It turns blurry images into crisp ones. I am very excited. Of course, there is … Continue reading →

One highly effective way to improve the quality of one’s commute is to stay in lab until 10:30 PM. This is a surprisingly agreeable solution, at least when the Dermatology department decides to leave a complete dinner over from their … Continue reading →

Ok, possibly not the worst ever, but pretty bad. The rush hour crush, in the rain, after dark, through stimulus-fired construction zones that reduce the number of lanes, made for a Really Good Storm of traffic. It was gridlock, in … Continue reading →

As I sat outside my office last night, eating my Subway sandwich under the imposing facade of the Boston Lying-In Hospital, I noticed a bug. It was maybe as large as a quarter, and crawling quickly on spindly legs. It … Continue reading →

Last night VoiceLab gave a performance at the Harvard student bar. It was noisy, and we’re not very experienced with microphones as a group, but I don’t think we embarrassed ourselves … at least, not any more than necessary. I … Continue reading →

It’s amazing what you can find on Wikipedia. Someone could probably make a lot of money just by posting a new incredible thing from Wikipedia every day. Here‘s mine: In 1993, [Vanna] White won a lawsuit against the Samsung Electronics … Continue reading →

Liquid misery poured from the sky and funneled through the concrete canyons of downtown Boston this morning as I rode to Voice Lab’s first performance of the year. We gave a very short concert at Quincy Market (next to Faneuil … Continue reading →

As I was biking home last night, right after crossing through the major intersection in the hospital district, I saw a car coming in a bit fast in the opposite lane. A few seconds later, I heard a screech, and … Continue reading →

I have killed the Heisenbug … or at least, a bug that closely resembles the Heisenbug. (The frustrating thing about probabilistic bugs is that you can never be sure if they’re gone, or just hiding.) This code has a huge … Continue reading →