So, it looks like 2003 might be the year of the geek. At least as far as movies go. We’ve got the Matrix sequels (Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions). We’ve got the final installment of the LOTR trilogy. We’ve got the third Harry Potter movie. And we’ve got a slew of Marvel comic movies coming out (The Hulk, X-Men 2, Daredevil). Lookin’ pretty sweet if I do say so myself.
Archive for January, 2003
Yeah, so they’ve bumped up the price of pizza at work. For as long as I’ve been working at CRHC, we could get a slice of Papa Del’s on Fridays for a buck. The way this works is corporations give our professors all kinds of money for being cool. One excellent example is Professor Hwu’s IMPACT group (without which Intel wouldn’t have made Itanium). Well, with the economy as it is, the corporate money isn’t flowing like it used to. As a result, Prof’s aren’t putting in as much money as they used to, and so they’ve doubled the price of pizza. 
A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction, boredom [Source]
Pronunciation: “än-’wE
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Old French enui annoyance, from enuier to annoy
Date: 1732
Scary tidbit: Amanda’s little 8 year old brother BJ used this recently.
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. [Source]
Background:
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, “blog” seems less likely to cause confusion, as “web log” can also mean a server’s log files.
So Nick scheduled our first Amalgam meeting of the semester for today. But unfortunately, our meetings are scheduled for right before his class (which he has never taught before). As a result, he ditched our meeting to finish preparing his lecture. Nothing like getting things done early. Anyway, he dropped by around 1/2 hour before the meeting to tell Jeff and me that he wasn’t coming and we should figure out where the project will be around the end of the semester and what conferences we should shoot for. Fun fun. At least there isn’t an obvious conference for my work till June, so I should actually have enough time to do some real work and have a decent shot at having publishable work by then.
