from the desk of stinkpot

priceless quotes overheard from the hilarious portuguese family having a picnic in our backyard: i am republican, bitch! [unknown voice] well, it doesn’t matter [if you'll tolerate gay marriage] because i’m gonna become president first. i’ll be president first because i’m gonna work my ass off. [the 8-year niece of our landlord, yelling to her […]

ughhh, it’s been so hot and humid lately here in boston. the woolly heat just blankets you as you step outside and into the sun. christina and i have eschewed air conditioning in our apartment due to the following moral arguments: 1) we’re cheap. 2) having both descended from 100′s of generations of tropical island […]

it’s been a good summer so far. i’ve already done 2 of the 27 things i’ve hoped to do in my life. the first was #23: backpacking for at least 2 weeks in a foreign country. check. the second has been #16: learn c. i finally took care of this one last week. not knowing […]

1) [you grow codgety] “they’re gonna be sooo sorry!” thus warned christina after one of our many pieces of junk mail dealt her a nasty papercut yesterday. something snapped in the poor girl, because she decided to take up an old pastime of mine: taking all of those return envelopes in the junk mail, stuffing […]

i took today off, it being america’s birthday and all. christina and i celebrated with our delightfully canadian friend jesse. like a good american boy, i made hamburgers. my griddle must have been channeling abe lincoln’s ghost: i put out the best burgers of my life. red onions, garlic, paprika, and peter luger’s steak sauce, […]

life doesn’t get any better than today. i slept in. i cut some fresh honeydew. i had lunch outside, under a crisp blue sky with my labmates. i wrote good code. in fact, i wrote great code – i fixed a bunch of nagging bugs, which earned me an early ticket out of lab. so […]

eric (the head of my lab) hosted the first-ever alm lab bbq today at his house in medford. it was great: the lab is this wonderful size (four grad students and one post-doc) where you’ve got enough people to officially designate it a “lab,” while still maintaining intimacy. our lab really feels like a warm, […]

hooray! our internet is finally working again, which means that this webserver is finally back online. after months of spotty service, i think verizon has finally fixed the problem. a repairman came out the other day and saw that our phone line was actually exposed to the elements (which would explain why our dsl died […]

the boston muddy buddy race took place this weekend. this race has been a huge event on my calendar. my teammate – andrew – signed us up some time in february. chris and i even cut short our european odyssey to make it back in time for the muddy. the race sounded incredible on paper. […]

hooray, christina and i are finally back home! actually, we got home yesterday – i couldn’t post anything until now, however, since our internet has been dead the last two days. ::angrily shakes fist at verizon:: of course, when the internet did come back on, i was greeted by this on my screen: up there […]