from the desk of stinkpot

just finished installing palm’s software that lets my antique sony clie play nice with my mac. only took 2 hours of my time and the incidental deletion of my desktop and all of its files and folders.  i can’t recall exactly what was there, but i’m sure it was important; why else would it be […]

purgatory is a real place: it takes about 24 hours to pass through and requires “de-planing” 3 times, checking/collecting luggage twice, and a 15-hour confinement period next to a sweet, but aromatically-challenged old man. (does the biting cold outside of the arrival terminal mean i didn’t go to hell?) so much catching up to do!  […]

back in manila after spending the weekend on bohol, a small island just north of the equator.  will describe in greater detail when i get home and upload photos. ———— will keep posts short and sweet; internet here is like molasses.  (but that shouldn’t belie how wired this country is – people here are constantly […]

quick-hitting post, since my flight leaves in 5 hours and i’ve yet to pack a single article of clothing. classes:  wonderful, unfortunately.  had hoped by now i’d be sick of school, which would expedite process of entering real world + earning real paycheck.  instead, i love my class on inference & information: i miss seeing […]

so as i sit here in bed, wrapping up my blog post and getting ready to sleep, christina [asleep] rolls over and says with her eyes closed, “you are right my friend.” hurm. i’ve just gently elbowed her. “who were you talking to chris?” “i was dreaming about how you can get different kinds of […]

like profoundly disoriented snowbirds, christina and i decided to escape boston in the dead of winter last weekend – by heading north to montreal.  jesse and hillary accompanied us, eager to return to the city they both attended university in. good lord it was cold.  -20 centigrade at least (or most, depending on what’s up […]

i’m starting to adopt christina’s sleep schedule.  it’s comprised of: passing out on the couch while watching national geographic documentaries about giant crocodiles around midnight and waking up at 7.00 am to go to work. since no self-respecting programmer would show up to work at 7.30 am, i’ve decided to just have breakfast at home, […]

i’ve been working like a dog on ritalin lately: hours upon hours of programming, non-stop. actual quote from my advisor today: “you know, all these projects you keep taking on – i’m amazed you get them done about as quickly as i assign them to you.”  i give him the “it’s because i’m so smart/talented” […]

energy-driven geopolitics; ruling family dynasties of questionable conscience; people running around blowing things up in the desert – our world reads like a frank herbert novel. given the blurring of reality and fiction, can’t our leaders try to be a little more inspirational?  is this the best they can do?  god, what i wouldn’t give […]

ugh, i’ve removed 2 blog posts in the last 2 days: 1 new one and 1 old one.  thanks to last month’s post debacle, this blog is as self-conscious as i was at my first middle school dance.  friends, family, advisors, former students, and strangers from the interwebs all stop by; i’ve realized that something […]