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[24 Jul 2008|10:22am] |
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| PET 2008 rump session talk |
[24 Jul 2008|04:33pm] |
I gave a quick rump session talk about my ideas for MAID and just uploaded a set of slides.
I think it's time to get this ball rolling. Is anyone interested in working on this project?
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[23 Jul 2008|10:16am] |
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| personal observation |
[23 Jul 2008|10:44pm] |
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i......... have to learn to not argue about my pet peeves. it just upsets me, and it pisses my friends off. but IT'S SO HARD! *sigh*
this didn't really have a point. i'm just frustrated by the level of annoyance caused by.... yeah.
GRRR!
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| PET 2008 |
[23 Jul 2008|11:27am] |
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Mike and I spent an evening in Amsterdam, slept all day and then drove with Alex to Leuven for PET. I'm giving an invited talk on Friday, I'll probably also give a rump session or two.
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| javascript is my BITCH |
[22 Jul 2008|12:04pm] |
well, okay.... no it isn't. but i finally managed to fix this little bit of script that's been refusing to work for.... two weeks? turned out i had a bit of code in the wrong spot, but i had to spend many fruitless hours prowling online forums before i found the solution.
the result: http://www.ryuujinrising.com/Studio.html?fs=cetiya.html
i.e. i can now post links directly to the manga-related bit of my site rather than pandering to the dictatorial iframe gods. hell, i can post links directly to *any* bit of my site. i find this exciting.
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| HOPE |
[20 Jul 2008|05:55pm] |
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We've released the source code for the research utilities used in the Cold Boot Attacks. Slashdot, CNet and Boing Boing picked up the story. We're also up for a pwnie. There's no way that our research will win over Dowd's bug and full paper.
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| for people living in japan |
[19 Jul 2008|11:46am] |
i've been having a lively discussion about this article here, published last week: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080711f3.html
questions? comments? opinions?
because let's face it.... this man is rather obviously full of shit.
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[18 Jul 2008|12:12pm] |
here here here
week is weird. sick is weird.
started cooking at the hope & olive! that's intense. and superfun.
fucking SHIIIIIIIIT
summer is in full force here in greenfield, what a sight. and me sick and injured in the middle of it.
staying inside and reading. want to start recording.
nothin stoppin me
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| for people still living in the US |
[18 Jul 2008|11:52am] |
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okay, everyone. this is going to seem like a REALLY stupid question, but i get asked about this sometimes and find myself stuck for a good, concise answer.
in japan, someone whose parents are from different ethnic backgrounds (e.g. american mom, japanese dad) is referred to as "half." not half-japanese or half-american, just "half." this is not considered to be particularly rude here, but it's certainly not polite to call someone "half" in the US. some japanese people who are aware of this social dilemma might call such mixed-race people "double," to try to put a more positive spin on it. so the question is, what's the most polite way that one would normally refer to a person of mixed race? in my experience people have tended towards the specifics, referring to their heritage in hyphenated form (e.g. italian-american), but explaining things like this in a country with pretensions of homogeneity can be a bit daunting at times. anyone out there want to contribute?
and while i'm asking questions about my homeland, can anyone tell me what music is popular now? this incredibly embarrassing, but without access to US radio or popular media i feel my concept of contemporary US culture is becoming sadly dated. >_>
how awkward.
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[16 Jul 2008|10:31am] |
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[16 Jul 2008|12:27pm] |
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you know, i find it incredibly annoying that japan won't get the new x-files movie until november 7th, while the US gets it july 25th.
as i've said before, i don't hold out much hope.
but let's face it.... i watched the show all the way through it's most damnably bad seasons. i'm not going to NOT see the movie.
stupid japan. -_-
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[15 Jul 2008|10:17am] |
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| sumo wrestlers, frying pans, and ducks |
[15 Jul 2008|07:23pm] |
background image restored!
had a few close calls with the support crew at photobucket.... almost couldn't remember all the information i entered during registration. first i got the zip code wrong (used the rumson one rather than the bard one), then i couldn't remember whether i registered with my real birth year or one of my "alternate" ones. definitely couldn't remember if i put down a first name and what it might have been.
but, wonder of wonders, i turned up enough correct information for them to restore my access. yay!
every now and then, a problem gets solved. even if it's just a little one.
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[15 Jul 2008|03:19am] |
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When did this all happen.
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| oh, those pesky human rights issues.... |
[15 Jul 2008|03:48pm] |
typically i avoid touching this site while i'm at the office, but my need to post this article superceded my compunctions:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20080715zg.html
japan. is. ridiculous.
then again, as we saw yesterday, america bombed a wedding party. so.... yeah.
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[14 Jul 2008|10:20am] |
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| reasons why i'm ashamed for my country sometimes |
[14 Jul 2008|01:45pm] |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7504574.stm
anyone who knows me at all knows i stay pretty far away from politics.
but.... seriously. wtf, america?
the military spokeswoman in the video at the end is rather far from convincing.
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| YAHTZEE!!! |
[14 Jul 2008|11:05am] |
oh, and it's SITE UPDATE DAY!
one new page.
someone make sure brad looks at it.
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| GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHuniverse |
[14 Jul 2008|10:35am] |
so, in a new bit of oddity today, it appears that the downloading of firefox 3 disabled parts of my lj layout. when i went in to edit, the whole layout reset itself. so i've been sitting and trying to remember exactly what colors i was using where for the sake of recreating the format i've had since i set this thing up at the end of high school. it's funny how it *should* have been easy to remember since i see it every day, but it had wormed it's way into my unconscious in such a way that i had some difficulty recalling which colors went where and which gray i was using (was it #6666? was it #9999?). you know, that sort of thing.
but what had originally went missing was my background image, so i went into photobucket to retrieve the link. but..... it wouldn't take my password. it was in the site memory--was in fact stored in auto-complete--so i have no idea why this might be, but i went ahead and said to reset my password. but wait! there's more! i'd set up that account with my bard email, which hasn't been valid for over a year. so i've gone and filled out a form for them and am hoping really, REALLY hard that they can find a way to give me my access back.
my life is made of tiny annoyances.
anyway, in the interim, i am left without a background image. my journal feels naked.
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[13 Jul 2008|10:19am] |
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[13 Jul 2008|08:53pm] |
my website page counter is having an argument with the page counter in my angelfire webshell. my website asserts that, over the course of the past 6 years, i have had 3031 visitors. this is a low number, but since i don't push my site i don't really expect much better. my angelfire webshell says that within the last month i have had.... wait for it.... 2654 page views. now, page views are not the same as visitors. BUT. the discrepancy is still QUITE LARGE. for instance, the webshell said i had 85 hits yesterday. my counter stats say i had 2 visitors yesterday. now, either those two people hit my main page 85 times, or one of those counters is wrong. i am confused as to why this may be.
i'm writing this to take my mind off of how crazy fidgety i am about this goddamn bank debacle. no one else in my family is having this problem. i just want to activate my damn card already. -_-;;;
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[13 Jul 2008|12:32am] |
pan seared salmon w/ teriyaki sauce + herbs + pineapples & rice :D
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| New York |
[13 Jul 2008|03:08am] |
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I made it safely to Connecticut, it took a while but I'm here. My flight to New York was pretty much the best I've ever had, I really like Virgin America. I suspect this will be a very productive week. I've almost finished the email part of 'gettor' that I've been hacking on. I refactored most of it to allow me to work with it offline. Useful. Hopefully I won't need to hack on it much after I deploy it.
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[12 Jul 2008|10:19am] |
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| "if i didn't say it, i'd still have felt it" |
[12 Jul 2008|04:32pm] |
sitting down and actually doing page 23 has gone a ways towards making me feel better. and it means i'll actually have something to post on monday, which i was seriously doubting.
this doesn't change the fact, though, that i'm still pretty damn depressed today. i'm trying to push it off, but it's not going quietly. part of my brain still tells me that physical strength isn't all that counts in this world. the other part tends to say different.
i should probably review the yosakoi dvd before i go to practice tonight. :P
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[11 Jul 2008|10:18am] |
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[11 Jul 2008|08:54am] |
last night i saw one of the most amazing things in my life, ever!!!!!
NOMO!!!!!!
foot still acting up, tamales this weekend? don't know which kind.
busy busy busy. i'm working at the hope & olive now? fuck yes.
i had tofu scramble for breakfast. it's been a while since that's happened.
i went to montreal. that was crazy.
i still need to get a refund for my greyhound ticket!
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| i wish i didn't care |
[11 Jul 2008|09:09pm] |
the thing i can't stand about taekwondo is that half the time i love it and half the time i hate it. i'm either elated in class or i feel like shit and want to die. i practice jumping every morning and i still can't jump for shit. this....... the problem with this half-and-half thing is that i can't see in the long term whether i really want to continue this. i can't tell whether the good parts outweigh the bad. and every time i think about giving it up i feel worse about myself because it feels like quitting and it feels like failure and it feels like i'm a fuckup. i haven't been without a martial art since early in junior high school, and even in elementary school i did karate for a few years. when i stopped tkd in college i had fencing. if i gave this up, i would be worth nothing. i would be lazy and sedate and be forced to admit that that's what's in my nature. i do physical activity to counteract what i know is true.
ironically enough, yosakoi practice is much more intense, and yet i have way less trouble getting through two hours of that than two hours of tkd. i think the fact that yosakoi practice is outdoors contributes heavily. ten minutes in the studio tonight and my skin was a river. 20 minutes in i wanted to die to save everyone from knowing how useless and weak i am.
i really, really hate summer.
this is all funnier because my classes the last two days actually went fine, and one of my quiet students gave me a number of gifts to see me off. today should have ended well.
*sigh*
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