Monthly Archives: April 2010

I went to a book-signing today with Cory Doctorow at the Harvard Coop. He read a passage from an upcoming book, and then answered questions from the crowd of maybe 20. Cory Doctorow is a great reader. His dramatic rendition … Continue reading →

A few months ago my advisor got tipped off to an MRI scanner being discarded at one of the nearby hospitals, maybe Children’s. For reasons unknown to me, they couldn’t sell it to another hospital, and they were looking for … Continue reading →

I’m packing for Sweden now. I just checked the weather forecast, which looks to be upper 40s and sunny. Warmer weather would mean less cloth to carry, but I’ll manage. This Saturday at 3 PM at Dudley House/ Lehman Hall … Continue reading →

It’s been cold and wet for a few days, and I love to say it’s unseasonably bad, but really that’s not true. The last three weeks have been unseasonable, and the cold wet is really the norm for April. I … Continue reading →

The most attractive replacement laptop I’ve managed to find so far is the Dell Latitude 13. It’s not perfect, though, and the most worrisome flaw, to me, was the “non-user-replaceable” battery. Apple is famous for this; you can’t replace the … Continue reading →

My roommate and I did a deep clean on the apartment this evening, in preparation for finding a new third roommate. In the process, I emptied 36 ounces of carpet shampoo spot by spot. It seems to have been more … Continue reading →

I left my passport in Connecticut. I typically leave it with my parents, to keep in their bank’s safety deposit box. That’s usually a fine place for it to live, but not when I’m going to Sweden in a week … Continue reading →

Today was a bad day for computers. In the afternoon, at work, my laptop died in rather spectacular fashion, with video corruption causing many letters (e.g. w) not to be rendered, and eventually triggering a kernel panic and epileptic display … Continue reading →

I arranged a song called Represent for VoiceLab, and we’ve been practicing it all semester. As our performance dates approached I have become more and more nervous about it. Each rehearsal where it failed to gel, or the soloists got … Continue reading →

I read through like two weeks of junk mail today. My to do list feels about a mile long. I have to finish my presentoster for ISMRM by Friday … if I get to go at all. My flight’s in … Continue reading →