Yesterday, a close friend of many of my friends, someone whom I’ve met a few times myself, died in a motorcycle accident in northern California. I found out via Twitter. Over the past day, I’ve watched as word spread – mostly via Twitter and Facebook. As a small set of messages from those who were with him started being retweeted, the search feed for his twitter username, @djgraphite, quickly became very active. But as the retweets subsided, new messages took their place: People from around the world: some close friends, some acquaintances, some who’d never even heard of him, began sharing their condolences and memories of their friend, acquaintance, or fellow internet citizen. Even major sources reported …
For those of you who haven’t heard, I’m starting a masters program at the University of Washington starting this fall. I’ll be in the Professional Masters Program in the department of Computer Science and Engineering. Last Thursday, I went to campus for orientation. There are about 40 new students starting with me — the program is only about 150 students large.
It’s a pretty sweet gig: I’ll spend 2½ years doing one class and one colloquium credit each quarter, not including summer. That amounts to 40 credits spread over eight quarters. Better yet, Microsoft pays for most of it.
I registered on Friday and will be taking Compiler Construction and Computer Science Colloquium this fall. I’ve already watched one talk online for …
I was in a really good mood this morning. The universe decided that this wouldn’t do at all.
On my drive into work, a rock hit my windshield and put a 5 inch gash in the passenger side.
I had a relatively uneventful day until I started working on getting some test automation code to pass. I had to fix 3 failing tests. I figured out a fix, ran two and passed. The third still failed and it’s in an area of code that I don’t have any experience with, so that’s another day lost while the other team tries to figure it out.
I got hungry around 6:30pm, but no one got their shit together to leave until 8:30pm.
I went outside to …
