My cat develops a persistent sneeze
A disturbing film with a frustratingly underused advantage
A criticism too colorful to feel ashamed of
The fascination of seeing a game’s unfinished worlds
This Life Brought To You By Toyota
A fun theme park visit comes with advertising everywhere
Human Works As Phallic Symbols
Questioning a familiar interpretation of buildings and monuments
The appeal of simple, consistent rules for title case
Wordpress Question And Feature Request
Questions about tags, categories, and updating WordPress
Another round of frustration with Windows
Time at home offers relief from thesis stress
A major thesis milestone, with more work still ahead
A broken teacup prompts a timely lesson in mortality
The Most Valuable Thing In The World
A Zen exchange about a price nobody can name
An imaginary conversation about Apple’s growing font collection
A new buzzword for an old idea wears out its welcome
Fireworks on the beach at Pismo
Relief as San Luis Obispo’s heat wave breaks
Learning a theorem prover with an unfortunate-sounding name
Plenty of action, but not much for Edward Norton to work with
Battlestar Galactica delivers an unforgettable mid-season ending
An explanation of evaluators makes something click
Celebrating graduation while the thesis is still unfinished
Why I prefer to keep the lights on at my computer
Wondering how much a cast change really needs explaining
The State Of Operating Systems
Questioning the foundations shared by modern operating systems
Why do we keep rewriting the same software?
The forecast fails another wardrobe decision
A beautifully crafted Mario adventure on the Wii
Being the one who writes the check changes how I see wasted power
Knowing lambda calculus and explaining it are different skills
Your Phone Conversation Annoys Me
A little consideration would make phone calls less intrusive
PHP’s creator gives a lively lecture at Cal Poly
A trip home from Seattle refuses to go according to plan
Written arguments could make political debate more accountable
Wondering why backticks stand in for opening quotation marks
The frustrations of formatting an academic paper with markup
An opinion column’s closing line strikes me as ironic
A sudden back injury turns an ordinary class day painful
Computer Science Is Not Science
Questioning whether the field is better understood as mathematics
Imagining a future built around a shared virtual world
Thinking about fire’s role in the landscape
An altered ending loses the joy of Return of the Jedi
Just In Case I Have To Kill My Dinner
My first visit to a shooting range
A Christmas card poem that didn’t make the cut
A code-formatting habit follows me into fiction writing
Puzzles and humor make a simple premise extraordinary
IPod Video Transcoding In Linux
A VLC wrapper script converts videos for an iPod
Questioning regulation aimed at peer-to-peer file sharing
The point where a wine tasting stops tasting distinct
Expressiveness In Human Languages
Could the language you speak shape what you can think?