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Category Archives: Real Life

Old Pic

I found this picture of me with what might be our first [an AST IBM 286 clone] or second [Gateway 2000 486] computer. The background and my age lead me to believe it is the latter. But I could be wrong. Note the dot matrix printer.

UPDATE: According to my dad, [...]

St. Patrick’s Day

So apparently here in New Jersey St. Patrick’s Day lasts for three weekends. Who knew? Last weekend was St. Patrick’s Day in Hoboken. This weekend is St. Paddy’s Day in Sleaseside. And next weekend of course is the “real” St. Patrick’s Day. Three weekends to celebrate a man who helped [...]

What am I doing?

I’ve been feeling direction-less lately. I feel like I’m wasting every day. Yesterday I picked up three different books, started them, and then put them back down. I subscribe to 10 different computer-related mailing lists. I read them, but never contribute. My attention span is about as long as a [...]

New Office

On Friday I bid farewell to cubicle life. Over the past several months, my department has been moving to another building on campus. My group was the last to move and today was my first day living in an actual office. With actual windows and a door. I posted some pictures [...]

One of those internet tests

As someone who works in psychometrics, I’m skeptical of the validity of these things and I don’t plan on posting things like this often, but the result was pretty dead on. Perhaps it will go on the About page.

INTP – the Architect
You scored 0% I to E, 31% N to S, 76% F to [...]