Daily Thought Archive

My sleep schedule got soooo messed up. I'm going to have a tough time at work tomorrow.

I'm officially all switched over to my new computer. Thanks mom and dad :)

OMG, I finally solved day 11 in the Advent of Code. I learned so much about sets along the way.

My website is hurting right now. I hope I can find time and motivation to restore it to its former glory.

Funny reflection on password cracking

If someone has a strong, random, 20-character password, it could take centuries. But most people use passwords like "horselover49", "letmein" or "penis" (though the latter might be too short), which are much easier to crack.

Lots of good Christmas Light Runs recently.

I pulled a muscle in my left love handle. ouchy ouchy ouchy.

Today was the first time I wrote working code that exceeded the python maximum recursion depth. (Before it had always been a bug.)

There are so many super interesting things to think about. How could I have time for things like grocery shopping?

The Advent of Code is awesome!

December has been great for running so far. I hope I keep it up.

Today's MVP: Alexandra Elbakyan. For her work on sci-hub.io .

Yesterday at the airport a guy in a camouflage hat with an american flag sat down next to me, got out his laptop, opened up an ascii-armored RSA Private key, which I clearly saw, VNCed into a remote linux desktop over public wifi, and proceeded to search stack overflow for how to articles. Meanwhile, his wife and kids cheered, "go daddy go; crack those keys".

I'm pretty sure that dude is my arch nemesis.

I'm soooo ready for this Thanksgiving break.

Yesterday morning I raced in nothing but short shorts. Yesterday evening I set up a tent to keep the falling snow off the firewood.

I think the pink cup might be lost for good.

I find it interesting how many "math people" abuse the equal sign.

Today I saw a "lesson" that tried to explain how to multiply 3 x 40 like this:

3 x 4 = 12 x 10 = 120

Snowden for president :)

All this time I thought I loved Venn Diagrams, but it turns out I really love Euler diagrams.

I'm so excited about my research team starting soon.

The last two mornings, I've woken up to the sound of a woodpecker pecking the house.

I wish that implementing my brilliant ideas was as easy as having them.

It's a pretty good day of work when part of your afternoon is getting the pinky ball stuck on the gym ceiling and knocking it back down with a long stick.

Congratulations Lindsay and Steve. Excellent wedding weekend.

Language usage is interesting to me because different, sometimes small, populations follow different usage rules. Sometimes the population turns out to just be me.

I think the past tense of drag is drug, and I think the following sentences parses just fine:

Do you know what time the race is or we will be leaving for Blair on Wednesday?

World Series, here we come!

I'm learning my first functional programming language: Haskell.

New running shoes feel great after one run.

I'm starting to feel like a mitochondrion.

First load of firewood for the winter is in the garage. Can't believe winter is coming again already.

Learning Raspberry Pi might actually be pretty fun.

Congratulations on your marathon, Alina!

Finally ordered the ebow today. It only took five years of consideration.

Cross Country girls beat every team in the conference in the batch race today.

I'm starting to realize that while I do like teaching, I don't like babysitting rich kids and kissing rich parents' asses.

I normally really like Google's UI choices, but this switch is totally unintuitive.

I hate when people say, "I use a PC too". And expect me to commiserate with their windows issues.

Doing situps everyday has definitely only worked out a small part of my abs. They're so sore from the 80s workout.

Here's to remembering John Rutter, a badass musician, scientist, teacher, stoner, and friend.

Hope you've found that black car that shimmers and drives.

We miss you, Rutter.

I'm rededicating to biking to school this week. Bought full-fingered gloves to help.

I railed my elbow into the refrigerator door while throwing the pinky ball.

You know it will be a good day when the first thing you do is spill a half drank PBR off your nightstand into your sock drawer.

Does rain count as a good excuse not to bike to work, or was I just being a sleepy wimp?

Started engineering a system to hang the boat from the garage ceiling.

My pointer finger tip is asleep after using a can of spray paint.

I'm calling this condition painter's finger.

Safety culture sucks.

Installing a second slackline was brilliant!

I wish all these guitar lessons were on youtube in 2001.

I wouldn't have parked my bike in the hallway if you had a bike rack!

After one day of school my stats are:
Classes remembered: 1/1
Department meetings: 0/1

Listening to Pink Floyd on Pandora is so annoying because the songs are supposed to run from one into the next, but instead one ends and something totally new comes on.

The Ancient Sumerian Grill kicked butt at our cookout!

What does everyone think of the boat name, "Shake Your Assay"?

It's the name of a song Rutter used to sing. What's an assay?

I love my new short shorts, but they are definitely not for biking.

Tonight is the first ever non-CTY 40s prom. I'm so excited!

Running with the team is great because of all the encouragement. But it's funny because all that encouragement comes as, "Great job, ladies!"

Awesome jam session, house!

Sometimes when I get thirsty on the motorcycle, my instinct is to reach down for a bicycle water bottle.

I'm excited to be starting my first food diary. I hope it will help me lose weight and eat smarter.

Pintles and Grudgeons are mounted on the boat. It's coming together.

Nothing is quite as frustrating as when you're jamming out to a song, and the record or CD skips.

I actually chuckle when I see an @aol.com email still in the wild.

I'm back to Jersey, time to get serious about school.

(and buy electric guitars)

I'm impressed Milwaukee; thanks for a great time.

Happy 50th Birthday Mom!

Collective Soul rocks so hard I can barely believe it.

I saw some of the coolest lightning of my life tonight.

I sometimes use Wolfram Alpha to calculate my running pace. It isn't very encouraging when it interprets my input as "slowness".

Completed my first ever perfect week at Sheetz yesterday.

I'm so happy I finally won one of the CTY bumper sticker awards!

Down to the last 24 hours in Carlisle. This is the hardest part of the year.

Going to etch printed circuit boards in class tomorrow. Hope it goes alright.

I successfully rebooted the Sheetz menu computer. Next step is to hack into it and restore the old menu format.

Slip and Slide was super fun!

First attempt at PCB etching: failed.

I almost forgot late nights are what CTY is all about.

A runner's body anesthetizes itself while running workouts. The memory of the workout seems short and not that hard. It allows us to go out for another round a few days later.

First singing lesson was great!

My pink sharpie glows under black light!

Biking in traffic is totally manageable no matter what anyone says.

It just isn't very fun.

Another multi-day stummy ache :( I hope my gall bladder is okay.

I saw a river person climb the dam.

Had an awesome track workout today!

I'm curious about horseshoe crabs.

Billy Joel concert was awesome! Wouldn't mind another one tonight (instead of writing evals).

The solar roller day is always a bit chaotic. Maybe one of these days I'll get it right.

RIP jumping tree. I had some good jumps off of you.

Hope your knee heals great, Mom.

I like the rare occasions when I run with a traditional "athletic" person, and get to stomp them.

Lots of visitors this weekend! Can't wait for the retirement party.

I'm starting to wonder if lacrosse balls just grow by the parking lot.

I think I may have an unhealthy dependence on white boards. I have trouble functioning without one.

You miss every shot you don't take.

Class starts tomorrow. I'm a little nervous again. I guess this happens every time.

This year's invented game, "pinky pong", might be the next "protect the penthouse".

Un-pause

Life at CTY resumes just like we were never away.

Oh man, I've never seen a phone screen shatter into as many pieces as mine did yesterday.

Two baseball stadiums in two days

Happy Fathers' Day