Daily Thought Archive

I'm excited about the trajectory my life is on.

I wonder if it would be weird to regularly hang out in the kiddie pool on the grassy knoll.

I hereby declare myself a former nail-biter.

We might need to tweak the rules to "Protect the Penthouse" now that we know it can be scaled and repelled from.

Got some new running kicks. Hope my feet won't feel so old for a a few weeks.

No wonder my new biking gloves have been so uncomfortable, I've been wearing them upside down!

I've finally seen the blue.

This is the first time a a CTY student left my class mid session :(

Some little buttlicker, probably a Dickinson maintenance employee, cut down my slackline this morning.

Excellent reunion weekend. Thanks for making the drive everyone.

Lots of visitors this weekend. Hope everybody has fun.

I paid for a haircut for possibly the first time in my life.

I can't believe the fireworks started early. I was sooo ready to see them from the hawk watch this year.

I've found a biking buddy!

Major breakthrough. There is a working copier right around the corner from my classroom.

Maybe Warming up with some balancing before each run is a good idea.

Almost time for another ENGEb course.

Oh no, where are my sheets?

I love that despite being a work day, my alarm is set for 8:10.

Time to withdraw my initial crypto currency investment lest I get greedy and lose it all.

Drupal is starting to be slow enough that I'm disincentivized from updating my website. Time to migrate?

Did my first geocaching. It's hard!

Dear dropbox, please stop destroying my symbolic links.

I'm packing to move in a week. I haven't moved for nearly two years. Longest I've been in one place since 2006.

I wonder what happens when email comes to my old closed down gmail address. Think they still data mine that?

I'm excited about ethereum. I think it's the next major game changer.

Awesome wedding weekend. I miss you bush people. #funwithlanieandeli

I found some hillbilly beans in the freezer! Major score!!

An F***ing kid blew in my ear today. I might not make it through the last week.

"The type system requires that you check for that [nothing] value before it will let you get at the Integer that might be there. This prevents a remarkable number of bugs." (context)

This is why haskell is awesome.

Completed my two-day training ride in one day. I guess that a god sign?

Wow, what a time to discover realtime bitcoin trading. I'm playing on house money now.

I just discovered GDAX for crypto currency exchange!

Finally put the boat in the water. Maybe one of these days I'll actually sail it.

Taking a random day off in the middle of the week is awesome. I should do this every day.

As much as I think bitcoin is a positive revolution, I can't help but laugh when I hear an enthusiast say "crapitalism".

Now that it's almost boat season, it's time to finish up the odds and ends that I didn't bother finishing in the fall.

The problem: Delete all files whose names contain the word "conflicted"
My approach: Construct the perfect find command and pipe it into an rm command
The right approach: rm *conflicted*

#rookiemistake

The boat went for a drive today. Maybe soon it will hit the water.

I think I'm ready to stop giving to worldvision, but I can't look at those damn sad faces on their website and walk.

Today someone said, "Hey! Your hair is back!". I guess it's official!

It's douchey to ask someone a favor and thank them before they agree.

I also want to go on the record for creating the terms "preemptive thank you", "preemptive thanks", and "preemptively thank". #ridonkulous

Sometimes I feel marginalized as someone who actually likes pulp in juice.

Wikipedia's image overlay is the worst.

It's amazing how often I have ideas that are too brilliant to possibly forget. It's even more amazing how often I forget them.

In real life there’s probably a common-sense answer that involves lawyers and escrow accounts. But if you’ve ever read a crypto paper, you’ll understand that the right solution is to dream up an absolutely crazy technical solution.

Saw opening day of the Somerset Patriots.

Thinking of a brilliant* password updating scheme creates a weird solitude. You want your brilliant scheme to be appreciated, but if you tell anyone what it is, its security is undermined.

I can't figure out a good way to clean dust specs off my touch screen.

Biking is much sweatier in jeans and long sleeves.

Spring is officially here. As evidenced by my first run in short shorts... And the corresponding rash on my inner thigh chub.

Where did the frog present her irt project?

At the research ex-ribbit.

I've had a rock in my shoe since Monday. I may as well round out the week at this point.

Bicycle is reassembled with totally new shift and drive system. The first bit of riding took soooo many adjustments.

It's opening day, let's set the tonethe tone is set!

It's officially AP season. Too bad that overlaps with my GRE season.

A student taught me that Sudoku is just a graph 9-coloring problem.

See if you can figure out the graph. (hint: start with 4X4 sudoku)

I finally understand PAL vs NTSC.

They should have spring training sweatshirts. Who knows how long it will be until T-shirt season?

First time I've ever seen float needles so gummed up they had to be pried out of the seats.

Second spring break trip was a big success. Including the hike to Devil's Bridge.

Saw Tomlin pitch at spring training.

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Can you solve the riddle?

Trying the diner stop again tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Made it through Beckley WV without breaking down!

Snow day! Perfect timing. Getting an early start my roadtrip with Bistro.

I explicitly pledge allegiance against the flag of the united states of america.
And against the republic for which it stands, one nation (under god?) that can go fuck itself.
More Domestic Spying

How is it 2017 and there is no middle finger emoji? ????

This is what I look like after a hard day teaching... And marker fencing.

Taxes suck. I'm paying money I didn't consent to pay toward causes I don't support. And I'm too much of a puss to not pay like Thoreau did.

Yesterday was 100 days to graduation. I'm hoping to survive the 6 days to spring break.

Silver lining on the truck breakdown: It was a pretty nice day to walk home.

Saw Book of Mormon this weekend. Then my truck broke down. Hasa Diga Ebawai

Ever have that feeling that everything is suer interesting? I get that when scanning the popular network questions on stack overflow.

Nothing motivates me to try a new restaurant like a coupon that expires TODAY!

I like watching this guy react to his poker hand.

Prediction. Future historians will be fascinated with the stream of consciousness that our society has hashed into blockchains.

I'm sooooo happy we finally got a snow day.

Looks like the first bitcoins I'll spend will pay my lost superbowl wager. ????????

My list of interesting programs to write someday seems to be growing faster than my list of interesting programs I've written.

This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.

Many people think of the term, "draft dodger" as a pejorative. I would take it as a compliment.

I'm optimistic that maybe this wave of political correctness will pass like the scumware plague of the mid 2000s did.

I love when real-world analogies appear in academic literature:

Solving the puzzle should be like having a baby: two women can't have a baby in 4.5 months.

Running is much harder when I'm out of shape.

Ohhh no. I spilled my water all over my dream journal.

I haven't opened a new CD in over a decade until today. I forgot how much of a pain it is to peel off the plastic, AND the side sticker.

Grading code that is handwritten on paper is the WORST!

This two-phase sleep cycle is not so bad.

I'm getting into podcasts now.

This is the last week of the semester. Almost there!

Finally have enough reputation on Stack Overflow to vote. Maybe someday I'll be able to post comments.

I'm finally starting to understand a bit about coding with sockets. But just a bit. That stuff is hard!

Just interviewed for Academic Dean this summer.

Just trued my first two bicycle wheels. One practice and one real.

Had my first of what is hopefully many singing lessons today.

Hypothesis: I remember dreams more* when I wake up naturally than I do when I'm woken up by an alarm clock.

* I realize that I've glossed over a rigorous method of quantifying the degree to which a dream is remembered.

Apparently I only ever use the right shift key. I never noticed that before.