Today I went to work & class with nothing particularly exciting. Checkerboard is starting a “company-wide goals initiative”, which seems well-intentioned but has what looks to me to be some suboptimal implementations.

After class, we had over for a supper of delicious calzones. I unfortunately wasn’t very hungry, but I expect to have my leftovers for lunch tomorrow. We went to the Campus Center for some games and hanging out.

Hopefully, I will make a lot of progress on my research project tomorrow. But now, I am tired, so I’m going to do the logical thing and go to bed.

My wife took me up on my offer and asked me 11 questions (some with multiple parts). Apparently she’s trying to get back at me for asking her what she thought were some tough questions. So, here we go.

Her Qs and my As

Well, and I have started to realize that we may need a PDA or something to keep track of all the various things that we’re doing. We’re very busy people, and it’s difficult to keep our calendar updated, and our calendar is home when we are not. Plus, a PDA can beep to tell us to go somewhere.

So, does anyone have any particular suggestions for brands or models? I’m not quite sure exactly what our requirements are yet, but any and all information & resources that people might have would be useful.

And now, back to my regularly scheduled homeworking…

So, it seems like some other people have posted asking the audience for questions to answer. Perhaps this is how people deal with what I perceive to be another of the suboptimal features in LJ—there’s no way for a visitor to start a conversation topic on “my” page… Visitors can only comment on what I’ve started.

Or maybe it’s just a way to have something to do when bored or procrastinating.

In any event, feel free to post and ask me any number of questions, about anything. I’ll do my best to answer them. Or just randomly say “Hello”, if you can’t think of something to ask.

I’ve just discovered part of why my research hasn’t been working well: If I pass the “-debug” flag to the simulator I’m using, I get drastically different waveforms than when I don’t.

Yes, trying to get more information from the simulator breaks things. Heisenberg at work, I suppose.

After lunch, I took a nap for a few hours instead of doing my homework.

Naps are good. I needed that.

is now on a quest for hamburger buns so we can have Salmon-burgers for supper.

Maybe I’ll be able to get some homework done after supper…

Went to Wedge. Had much funness. Played Zendo, Bohnanza, and Bang. Muchness of fun all around.

Tomorrow, will work on homework & research project. Also, we have a Costa Rica team meeting in the morning. But now is time for bed.

When I asked “Why LJ” in ‘s journal, posted an ancedote about ICQ. It got me thinking about years and years ago, when most people hadn’t even heard of the Internet. I was on ICQ then. I went to ICQ’s web site today and saw ICQ ID numbers in the 9 digits. When I was on ICQ, my number was 6 digits. I’m fairly certain that the first digit was a 1 or 2.

When AOL bought ICQ (June 1998 (Source)), I decided that AOL was probably gonna ruin it, so I deleted my account. Anyone I wanted to chat with was on IRC if they were on anyway (this was before I could know a person both in real life and online, with the possible exception of my friend Pat).

I stopped using IRC when I came to the Academy, and my social life changed dramatically.

Later, I succumbed and got an AIM account, as it was the easiest way to chat with . Although she and I used talk quite a bit at times. Of course, WPI had a modem bank for her to use then.

My, how times change…

I just finished supper and will be heading to the Wedge shortly.

Edit: add to list of annoyances that the time posted is time started working on the entry, not time entry finished and posted