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So, my snazzy new credit card that I got apparently has some sort of chip and RF transmitter in it. This allows me to purchase things simply by holding the card near the POS card reader instead of actually needing to go through all the effort of swiping it through the machine.

What is the world coming to…?

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

So, our question of how much interest there would be if we ran a tournament at WPI has been answered.

43 people showed up.

For the first time in about a couple years at least, I no longer possess any unopened Magic packs.

Wow.

I finally broke down and applied for a credit card last weekend. The prospect of better fraud protection and cash back was just too tempting. I’m now eagerly awaiting for it to arrive in the mail.

Today and next week I have off of work. I needed to use up some vacation time before May or I’d lose it. I figured I’d take off this time since it’s public school vacation week, and thus my Mom and wife have it off as well. My dad is also taking it off. So, we may go out to the Berkshires sometime in the middle of next week, if the weather’s good.

Once upon a time, in the days of yore, shortly before the Punic wars and just after the invention of water, the World Wide Web was just text. It languished until the popularity of Mosaic, which allowed graphics on this medium. Now, the entire point of the web as it first existed was basically hyperlinks, allowing one to jump from one topic to another, and not really needing to worry about which server one was on at the time.

I just received confirmation that I’ve been accepted as a volunteer to judge at Pro Tour Charleston in mid-June. Likely I’ll just be working the side events, but I may work some on the main event, especially if I achieve level 2 as planned at Regionals in May.

And don’t forget my WPI SFS-subsidized Magic event two Saturdays from today.

It’s snowing.

And accumulating.

I love New England.

In D Term of 2000, during my senior year at the Academy in CS 2136 (Paradigms of Computation), I wrote a Java stopwatch for a homework assignment. It wasn’t an especially wonderful stopwatch I didn’t think; it just met the extra-credit spec and had a lap counter. So, my program assignment was up on my web site at WPI for the years I was there. Every once in a while, like every 9–18 months, I’d get an email from a random person letting me know how much they liked my stopwatch. One of them was even from some guy at Intel who was using my stopwatch to help him build something there. At one point, I was even the first hit on Google for “java stopwatch”, which was quite a surprise.