from the desk of stinkpot

during the summer me and exercise were starting to get real intimate. then came the unpleasantness. i’m glad to report that my body and i are starting to make nice again. i joined a frisbee team in the fall. i also rediscovered tennis, something i’ve been meaning to do for a while. tennis has been […]

our gerbils are multiplying like rabbits. this is all sort of according to our planned gerbil parenthood, of course. as our beloved pets have matured and slowly approached the ends of their little furry lifespans, we’ve worried about replacing them. i don’t think we could just bring home some new gerbils from the pet store […]

saturday was eventful. it began with a 6-hour frisbee tournament, played in a cold mist in suburban massachusetts. our team won the consolation bracket. that night, chris and i, along with some friends from the lab, attended a pairs-themed costume party. i think the pictures do a good job of showing how good a time […]

it’s late and i’m hungry, as i forgot to eat breakfast and dinner today. and now that it’s close to midnight and christina is asleep, there’s no point in going through the hassle of preparing a proper meal. what i need right now is the balut man. i learned about him the last time i […]

a morale-challenged friend forwarded this to me today: about 307,000 google results for: i really regretted quitting my phd about 1,090,000 for:  quitting my phd was the best thing i ever did

i love mit and the characters she breeds for instance, i played tennis today with a skilled, but a little out of shape alum. a former student, he was also a member of the inaugural mit blackjack team. i thought at first he was referring to the teams in “bringing down the house”; he clarified, […]

i found these guys hiding out by the library across the street from our apartment.  sad to think that these guys won’t last much longer; it’s getting so cold outside now, and it’s only september!

will update blog again soon.  been so busy lately with work.  and, just got back from a 2 week adventure in honduras.  many fun pictures and stories to share soon!

chris and i celebrated our 7th anniversary together with dinner this evening at a really steakhouse near copley square this evening. it took me a while to figure out how many years we had been together.  funny how chris, and even my sister steph, knew immediately when asked.  girl thing perhaps? in any case, dinner […]

i just lived through a great moment in programming. this afternoon, i caught a subtle error in a 1023-line (not including comments) program whose results are about to be featured in a publication.  spotting and squashing this bug not only explains one mysteriously anomalous result i’ve been getting for months, but has also likely provides […]