Capricious Me

Paraphrased, of course:

“We’re kind of Redmond-centric because, let’s face it, this is the Death Star.”

Cute quote from The Simpsons:

“Lisa, the world needs you to go to Wellesley!”

Type this into your python shell of choice:

from __future__ import braces
( for you lazy bums who just want to see the result... )

Habanero burgers are awesome. Like all things, however, they should be taken in moderation. So let’s just say… five burgers worth of habanero sauce and one actual burger does not play nicely with your innards. Still, I didn’t lose (but I didn’t win either) the challenge against Andrew. Hahaha. At least I know my blood’s circulating better than ever. Yeah! :-D

oh, and of all the analogies about single girls/guys… I think my favorite is (from bash.org):

<beeth> Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken.
<honx> well, you can stil (sic) get one from a strange country :-P

I saw this post over at Digg. My first reaction was Willem Dafoe’s voice hissing, “I believe the word you’re looking for is Sssssymbolism.” (From Boondock Saints) Good read. I prefer Will Ferrell’s Architect to the actual movie one. Actually, I didn’t even bother seeing the 3rd movie because the 2nd was rather atrocious.

GREAAT quote that came out of Friday night. “Letting math kids in a CS class is like letting healthy kids in the special Olympics.”

Today “The kind of cold that’s not warm…”
(response, sarcastic) “Yeah, that’s the worst kind of cold.”

Friday night I went to see Macbeth, which was a really good production. (Congrats to Emily!) The set was so awesome and so creatively done… and the witches = awesome… the woman (yes, woman) who played Macbeth was absolutely AMAAAAZING. I really liked it. yesterday was potluck/group problem set discussion… sigh.

Today, I spent most of my time in the lab trying to finalize and typeset my solutions. Went to dinner at Pluto’s (best sandwiches. EVER.) with Conny & Daniel and Anna. There, we were discussing the grad student panel we are going to see tomorrow. The convo goes something like this…

M: I don’t think I’m going… I can always talk to the older grad students anyway.
C: What if they aren’t CS grad students?
D: That would be even worse.
C: What if they’re electrical engineering students?
M: Why would they do that?
C: *smiles*
M: OH. oooooooooh!!!

Clearly, I’m a bit slow…

So I went to Sacramento with Conny on a shoe shopping trip saturday. (we found no shoes… but there’s always next time!! :-)) On the bus home, we saw this couple with a baby carrier-thingy. The carrier was covered with a cloth or thin blanket so we couldn’t see the baby. To this, Conny said…
“Won’t the baby die if it gets no air? *pause* It can’t be so ugly that they would want to cover it!”

Later, we met up with Daniel, who suggested going to a bar or cafe or something. So I listed the ones that we’d been to before and liked, and said we should avoid one which had tons of undergrads all the time. A little later, while driving to our destination… Conny and I had the following conversation:

C: Why don’t we go to one of these bars with lots of undergrads?
M: Um… why would you want to do that?
C: *hmmmm*
M: *epiphany* oOOooohh!!!
C: *laughs*
(Daniel, who was focusing on being a safe driver, also enjoyed the joke.)

It makes a lot of sense if you understand references to Conny’s “treat” ;-)

“That’s MY leg!!!” that will have me bursting into giggles for a long, long time.

Right, so classes have begun… I actually have to lead discussion sections this quarter as part of my TA duties. So far it hasn’t been too bad. I guess it’s good practice. I got recognized by a student at Woodstock’s yesterday. Which reminded me of TA orientation when one of the people said, “Davis is a really small town, so it’s kinda awkward when you run into students in bars. They seem surprised that you have a life. All you want to do is finish your beer and they’re asking about when their papers are going to be corrected.”

Badminton at the ARC is uber-fun. It’s quite popular here… there was a huuuuge queue for the nets.

If I were back in MA, I could be enjoying wintersession by hanging out w/the Boston critters and going to Frog Pond and Penang… trudging through snow, decapitating snowmen :-P

I present: the Critters. heheehhe…