Seeing this response gave me renewed hope for the internet. Sure, there are cesspools of nasty people who couldn’t care less if you die, but then there are masses of normal, caring human beings who empathize with each other and bring the kind of support I saw yesterday and today for Vinay’s family and friends. It is sad that this needed to be brought on by such a tragedy, but it is reassuring that a tragedy could bring on such a reaction.

Rest in peace Vinay. I only met you a few times, but you clearly had a great affect on my close friends. You were generous, caring, and fun to be around. If anything lies beyond death, I hope that it is all that you wished for.

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 the colloquium — It was by Vint Cerf, commonly known as the father of the internet. He invented TCP/IP and currently works for Google as their Chief Internet Evangelist. Really good talk — he’s definitely a solid public speaker.

Anyway, I felt like I should mention that here for my loyal and few readers. Now you may carry on with your day.

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 wait for a couple friends and pulled out my phone to pass the time. The internet was being a bit flaky, so I rebooted it. On restart, it stopped working because my beta copy of the OS had expired.

Then my friends arrived and I found out that one of their girlfriends now hates me for silly reasons (that’s two for two of his girlfriends to date).

He went to go hang out with her while I went with the other friend to get some food.

We went down to my car which now has a two foot gash in the windshield.

We drove to Seattle, got some tasty beer and wings and then some ice cream at a pretty cool place we hadn’t gone before.

So, to be completely fair, the end of the day has good relatively well. Furthermore, I’m still in a good mood. Take that universe!

UPDATE: As it turns out, the new RAM I bought for my PC is defective too, so I need to return that. Also, it is fucking hot in my place.

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That just made my day.

Anyway, time to go search the web for cool Roomba hacks!

UPDATE: I just setup my Logitech Harmony remote to control the roomba…awesome.

Yesterday, I went out to Capitol Hill in Seattle with Fred and Joe and took over 150 photos all around the neighborhood. We spent around two hours walking around and finding cool photos. Check out my favorite photos from the set on Flickr.

Also, you can always watch my Flickr photostream on the right side of my blog or at http://www.flickr.com/photos/decompiled.

1. Queens of the Stone Age
2. Mindless Self Indulgence
3. Cake
4. Nine Inch Nails
5. Ashes Divide
6. Radiohead
7. El Ten Eleven
8. Pin Pon Dash (my sushi chef’s band)
9. Death Cab for Cutie (last night)
10. The Killers (last night)

I think that’s it for the year, unless someone knows about a cool show in SoCal between 12/19 and 1/4.

UPDATE: Oh shit, I forgot to list Radiohead…that was the best concert of the year, hands down.