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from jcruelty :
come to livejournal... the water's fine...
from angichau :
omg laura. i JUST figured out how to get the RSS feed for your dland so now i won't be so behind on your journal anymore!! it is a GOOD DAY TODAY!!! :) xxxx
from swimmmer72 :
Why would you think I'm a spammer?
from angichau :
you know what? nathan really likes and introduced me to EITS a while back!! they're good!!
from falafel :
cool! i'm going to bring that formula up next time i talk to my dad. you are such a smartypants.
from soperstar :
I've had a no-internet-before-at-least-2-hours-of-work-after-getting-up-in-the-morning rule in place for the past few years and it really helps to know that that's how my day will begin. having that rule actually *releases* me from my obligations to the errands in the "not important/must be done now" category: of course I have a million emails to answer and papers to grade, but I can't do it yet bc it hasn't been 2 hours yet so it's not an issue! I am a firm believer that these kinds of rules & routine are an essential component of creative productivity. although on the other hand, I've had to learn not to let disruptions in the routine provide excuses for laziness. (like if I really have to send a quick email in the morning not deciding that that activity "broke my concentration for the whole day so I might as well do something else." or like a couple hours ago when I decided there was no way I could compose until I found my damn nail scissors & then wasted 20 minutes looking for them. I didn't even realize it was all a ploy to get out of working until I caught myself sneaking glances at the clock.)
from frankohara :
man - DCFC's we have the facts has been haunting my consciousness for all the reasons you name - so much melancholy and being 22 wrapped up in that . . .
from angichau :
i want to eat a tomato from your garden!! also, whats the answer to the pepper question? my pepper plant is flowering too!!
from littlemahi :
i would buy you algues too! (when i get a real job and grow up:) )
from jcruelty :
liska's taking a sewing class too. tell me more about these algues... should we buy them? what drugs? it's been a while . nos vemos
from soperstar :
structure of scientific revs is on my reading list too although maybe it's more high tech than I thought? it was recommended to me by a musicologist...you'll have to tell me if you think I would like it as a layperson.
from falafel :
dude! will you really move to boston?! i hope you do.
from soperstar :
the weirdest thing I ate in the czech republic was probably pork knuckle--I mean pork is no big deal but this thing seriously looked like someone had just ripped the knee off of a pig and boiled it for a couple minutes. it tasted ok I guess. also in paris I had a small taste of andouillete which is bascially like unprocessed sausage--and I have to say I prefer my unmentionable animal parts to be mashed beyond recognition and safely enclosed in casing.
from falafel :
hey, i've eaten horse too! wow, i guess a lot of people eat horse. did you feel bad after? i was kind of sad after i ate it. mine was raw though. probably not a good idea.
from jcruelty :
whoas dropsin out? it's what all the cool kids do!
from angichau :
man, it seems i've missed out on much activity on dland! i'm sorry you're feeling lonely and blue... i can definitely see how hard it is though. it's one thing to go to europe by yourself on vacation (everything's novel and fun for 2 weeks!) but living somewhere new for a few months is a whole different thing! especially without any sort of familiar people around you. when are you coming home?? also, any new developments on the grad skool decision? did i tell you that crazy tech in my lab used to do NPR science stories?? i found this out recently and i was like 'whoa!'
from falafel :
i still can't believe my account is open... anyway if you quit grad school which i know you probably won't and i don't think you should.. but if you do we should o.pen a shop!!!!! i really want to open a little shop. not sure what we would sell, but we should have a ping pong table in the shop. bye bye.
from neeeeek :
It's all up to you. Working in a local project (workcamp) let's you discover more of the local spirit and get in touch with people. Is rather cheap too and really worthwile. I should write a travel guide ; - )
from neeeeek :
Take it easy and stay at the youth hostels. There's always other travellers around who like to have a chat and share experiences. Be a little open minded and go ahead. Europe is a bit expensive, though.
from neeeeek :
Germany is hard? Try South America!
from neeeeek :
Germans use to be polite in general and people from Berlin are a bit special (means confident, mostly honest and a little rough), it's the typical charme ; - ) Believe me, I was born and living there. Maybe you should try the word "please" next time you ask. You ain't the first person who got the simple answer "Yes." only by forgetting "Please." Even the big Travel guides cover this phenomenon as local hint
from frankohara :
It is rough being in Europe alone - sure people think it should be all fun and wonderful, but it's actually just really really hard. I guess the introspection is good? But I really don't believe that.
from angichau :
i think even if there are no weddings in a year, we should plan some PIB reunions! i liked bodega bay mucho and the houses were so cheap!
from angichau :
hee hee thanks giga!!! and i know you'll def be a great TA ... esp since you're so friendly! all the kids will come to you to get help!! :)
from angichau :
i just had a snack...of food from this seminar downstairs. mmm brie and hummus.
from angichau :
ms balz... don't feel too down about the phd decision. honestly, it's one of the hardest decisions ever. even though i'm happy working in lab, i still wonder daily whether it's the 'right' choice. but who knows what 'right' even means?! hey what's up with a swiss visa?? are you going to swissland? uhh.. i mean switzerland?
from jcruelty :
rage against the toaster still exists?
from ksharpstown :
hey buddy! way to write a thesis...hurrah! you are amazing. charlie is trying to sing abcs too...but he gets a little caught up on the "l, m, n, o, p"...it's pretty great though. i was just visiting him...back to nyc today...can't wait to see you soon!!! hurrah! xoxoxo
from angichau :
ooo congrats on having your ms thesis written! but wait...are you continuing on with the phd?
from angichau :
ooo i want to see pan's labyrinth!! everyone keeps talking about it! oh also...i saw a good movie about indie rock this weekend...think you'd like it. look out for 'danielson: a family movie'. it talks about daniel smith and all his various bands and how he sort of mentored sufjan stevens...pretty cute!
from jcruelty :
PS sorry about your driver's license. when you get your new pic you should wear that red sari. you looked lovely!
from jcruelty :
you look fwd to the next time i'm getting married?! have a little faith!!!
from soperstar :
*I* want to do a house concert at your apt! I'll have my agent send some possible west coast tour dates.
from angichau :
where you moving to giga? where's the new giga-house?
from littlemahi :
very very frustrating. and so unpredictable...
from jcruelty :
median/mode/std deviation? i couldn't remember which was which.
from soperstar :
I got a perfect score. weird, I never knew I was better at math than you this whole time...
from angichau :
i totally understand about stressing out over knowing the answer now even though you know that there's not really any point in fretting over it now. actually i feel like that's like 95% of all my stress... we are such silly peoples laura! why do we do this to ourselves?? but anyway, it sux that you have to choose between info theory and india!! will info theory be offered again the year after? maybe that way, you can have both...?
from hbaybee :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9deilles Oh yeah, and we do reviews. x
from picturepages :
you owe us an entry my dear.
from jcruelty :
good on ya! is there architecture in helsinki?
from angichau :
married. or moving. or gay. or anti-dating-someone-from-the-same-university. damn these silly boys. damn them to hell!
from frankohara :
ahem. married OR GAY.
from soperstar :
come to new york & I'll make you delicious roast chicken w/black pepper maple sauce...xoxoxo.
from littlemahi :
I miss you too!! this weekend i drove 3 and a half hours each way to go to the beach... it was great, but i wonder why i didn't do it more often while I lived 17 blocks away from it for a year and a half!! Stick to your plans of doing more fun things, and have a bit of fun for me too:)
from angichau :
i have a new black jetta?!?! sweet! i hope it doesn't get stolen in my 'hood.
from frankohara :
grad school is always slip-shod and right now doesn't feel like it's worth the fuckin' trouble.
from jcruelty :
come to livejournal, the water's fine
from littlemahi :
I really enjoyed reading the post about Bangladesh. yay, this is exciting. woohoo!!!
from ksharpstown :
hey friend...what? growing out of diaries...NEVER! I'm here for you, really, this time, I am. :) Otherwise I might go crazy! I'm glad you got your present and that your birthday was grand. Can't wait for you to come up to the Northside. You know! xoxoxo
from ksharpstown :
i love your story about your grandpa. you certainly make my world better. thanks for that. i'm glad you were born yesterday, literally. hahah. i think i might even update my diary. no!
from jcruelty :
congrats, even though you specified no congrats.
from falafel :
hey laura, just wanted to say hi. i think it's funny that my account still lets me leave notes. hope la is treating you well. hasta luego.
from angichau :
good luck laura!!!!! i'll be thinking good thoughts for u!!
from angichau :
you can do it, laura!!!! i dont call u drbalz for nothing!!
from angichau :
ms balz, we miss you here too!! it's strange -- every time someone in PIB leaves the bay area, or even moves within the bay area, i feel like an era ends. i still label events as 'when laura was here', 'when sandeep lived in menlo', 'when shawn lived in the city', etc.
from triet :
just to let you know, i've been watching season 5, so when you're ready drop me an email. lol. it's like a total soap opera now though. i'm glad they're ending it.
from captainb :
i was talking with a girl this weekend that looked like brenda, but without the sassy self confidence that is the real turn on.
from elsquid :
That's OK, that's how I've been feeling about Felicity recently. I've been watching way too much...
from angichau :
ooo! if u have a dj phlid/surface bday in LA, i want to try to come! maybe i'll be allowed to b/c it won't be hosted by someone-who-doesn't-like-me... :)
from angichau :
ooo does your house use a chore board?? i actually kind of miss that thing. :)
from cinnamontree :
My e-mail is keayjune at hotmail dot com. But don't tell the spammers. It's a secret...
from habibi :
i wanna see your pics too! moo!
from triet :
wooohhhooo house warming party!!!
from soverycherry :
I want to see the pictures! [email protected] - thanks!
from falafel :
i'm resurrecting falafel so i can write notes. i want to see pictures too. please?
from cinnamontree :
I want to see the pictures!! You know my e-mail address, right?
from triet :
i hope you felt this one. it rocked me awake from my hangover sleep.
from triet :
hey nice score on the apartment! i hope you have a house warming party and then invite me.
from angichau :
haha i knew that! but that's cuz my sis told me...
from italianbeef :
hey, so how'd the potential roommate interview go? and the presentation?
from angichau :
good luck w/ your term paper and any other end-of-semester things. hang in there!!!
from jcruelty :
glad to hear what a good time it was! i've been meaning to get in on sandeep's weekly poker game. it seems like a 'guy thing' somehow. i hope i don't have to smoke a cigar.
from triet :
why so fired up about prop 13? you're not even a homeowner, heh. i can understand the attraction of balancing the state's budget. or maybe not.
from resrap :
"Not because you think he is the best person ever, instead it's because you just wonder a lot-- is this person as cool as I think he is??" Yah...so true.
from italianbeef :
one of the greatest freedoms of being a researcher is the ability to change your mind. about anything. what you work on, what you think is a good or bad problem, a good or bad solution, or the right way to think about something... it's not always the easiest skill to exercise, but i'm just saying, i wouldn't sweat the 3 minute presentation. what's this "bridging the divide"? is it just between the UC schools? no fair leaving us midwestern kids playing alone in the sandbox by ourselves :( btw - your post reminded me that i really want to go see i heart huckabees. thanks!
from cosmokane :
doh! i'm going to be in la the weekend you're in berkeley - and i was going to ask if you wanted to hang out in la :P
from cinnamontree :
My friend's husband is really picky about food, and she wanted to make him polenta. When she told him the name of the food, he refused to eat it because "polenta" sounded too much like "placenta". So she made it anyway and called it Sicilian pizza. And he loved it.
from elsquid :
hey great balzano fire! my honey's going to stanford next weekend for a conference. do you know of any cheap places to stay close to there? (he won't have a car) and i think i am going to do an update, just because of your urging. :)
from resrap :
Got it. It's a very nice title. Very symbolic, that's why I asked. Oprah asked Johhny Depp in Oprah Primetime, who he'd like to have dinner with, and that person could be anyone alive or dead. Oprah chose Jesus. What a good, good choice.
from cinnamontree :
But did you see Okkervil River? Because I *love* them, and they were the opening band for The Decemberists.
from jcruelty :
jenny was trying to convince me to like the decemberists this weekend. she says they're hyperliterate but i say they're whiny.
from frankohara :
word. petra haden is now a member of the decemberists! did they cover "ask" by the smiths? they did when I saw them in Toronto and it was heavenly.
from resrap :
why "breaking bread" as ur diary's title?
from angichau :
it still seems like yesterday when we were all living in live oak together...but i guess it's almost a year! funny how quickly things change sometimes...
from jcruelty :
i think we're going to india at the end of this year. it's hard to figure out what you want isn't it? i am still trying to figure out what to do in my life.
from triet :
damn, forgive the spelling and typos in my last note. in a hurry...
from triet :
i think you're school-centric focus on friends will wane as you get further into school. there's an initial magnetism that brings fellow students together (this happened to me the first year in law school), but i find this gelling force dissipate over time. you want to do well, right? nothing wrong with being seen as being focuses. i, on the other hand, have had a case of senioritus after my first semester in law school. it's different for each person. good luck this quarter, and i'll try to contact you after april, although that's when finals start kicking in for me.
from jcruelty :
good summary. interesting to note that ariel sharon became infamous amongst the arab world for looking the other way as christian militias in lebanon massacred unarmed palestinians. i forget whether or not he was actually convicted of war crimes, but the charges follow him to this day.
from italianbeef :
thanks for the info! after seeing control room it's so hard to judge the validity of the info we're getting on the tv/net. i wish i could read arabic to see what they're saying in the native version of al jazeera.
from italianbeef :
good luck on your test! going away until apr 6? where are you going?
from italianbeef :
i just did a quick google on "collaborative filtering" and came up with more hits than i felt like sifting through at the time. when i have more time (you know how that goes.... :) i'm going to try to read more about it. i can send you the interesting stuff. i agree that "legitimizing" info, news esp, is a huge problem. my mom is the library/media director at an elementary school and one of the main skills they are teaching now is how to evaluate the worth of a given info source. don't know if collab filtering is the solution (too many people just absorb and don't think critically about what the media feeds them), but there's gotta be a way. btw - thanks for the "spin cycle" suggestion. i think that's what we're going to use!
from jcruelty :
pwa, that's nothin! you should have heard the questons these door-to-door survey workers asked me the year i got back from burning man... i too wondered if it was an elaborate hoax, but ended up doing their survey anyway. http://jcruelty.diaryland.com/030903_64.html
from ironfist :
Puerto Rico. Wanna come? we can be nerdly on the beach together. bring work.
from triet :
el coyote has great margs. find me a good, authentic styled indian restaurant in LA! it's impossible.
from soperstar :
laura. that was MY birthday!! how many margaritas did you have, anyway?
from resrap :
*they
from resrap :
Yup. Most people will think that someone left the tissue packet accidentally, but be careful. They're usually not accidents. Some thoughtless peeps used to put their HANDBAGS on the tables, till the got stolen.
from resrap :
I like this: "So I am becoming more "I"." What a simple way to put it.
from boxingnun :
WOOHOO!! cute briliant voice-wavering boys who kayak..OH YEAH!!!!
from cinnamontree :
Yeah, that's not the actual quote. That's my interpretation of it. The actual quote is about what a "schlump" is.
from angichau :
haha laura! yay you're the social bee in your lab!! :) and i'm also feeling a bit of the strangeness of talking familiarly with professors. at ucsf, there are no undergrads and so, most of the profs are laidback and chat with everyone (postdocs, students, technicians) on the same terms. i think it's really cool because you feel more willing to express your own opinions, instead of being so intimidated by them that you just agree with them (= most of the profs at stanford's ee dept).
from triet :
your entries are only boring to you. for us readers, they provide tantalizing moments of distraction.
from jcruelty :
i looked up PARSEC. so you're doing parallel programming? that's cool! i ran into a parallelized for loop once when i was debugging something at work. it's apparently a compiler optimization that gets automatically applied. was making my life hell. anyway drop me a line sometime and tell me more about your research.
from jcruelty :
so you just use ints for bool? in c you have to declare everything up front as well. what environment? what language? i feel your entry was not nerdy ENOUGH!! also, I O U present for ya birtheningday. it's a FIFO queue though and sandeep was FI. i got to get my head in the game!!
from resrap :
I stumbled upon your diary and I'll definitely be adding you to my favs.
from angichau :
happy birthday!
from heresallofme :
I got your comments. Thanks for writing them, I enjoy knowing what people think about my writing and what I have to say :)
from jcruelty :
i am over jetlag, got my bag, stuff working at work... life is good! i will be in LA this year. people laughed when i said 'roadtrip to la' was a new years resolution. apparently you're only supposed to have self-improvmenty shit. so i said "ok, my resolution is to try to make better new years resolutions." it was a lie though.
from triet :
re: angi's note, that was 2002 b/c i left my heart in san francisco after that. :( but i came back like a phoenix in LA. ;) doh, about getting sick. the last episodes in season 3 were hell. it was like nate was channeling his negative emotion to my brain. ugh, don't want to rewatch those anytime soon. hope yah, feel better. auto show was so-so, not enough concept cars IMO.
from angichau :
hey wasn't 2003 the one with the party at turtle hill? where we all brought champagne onto the hill and watched fireworks from very far away?
from blacklines :
i'm a fucktard with linear algebra, too.
from boxingnun :
http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/la/index.htm
from triet :
thanks for the restaurant tip. looks a little out of my price, though. p.s. are any of your lab friends into cool music? we should start "burn party: los angeles edition"
from italianbeef :
aww, i miss ubli. please tell her i say "hi" next time you see her.
from ironfist :
Okay,thanks! I'll check out the Sadies. Unfortunately it will have to wait a while because they're not available from the Russian company I buy all my music from yet. . . not so good with the AltCountry, those Ruskies.
from falafel :
that is so cool that you are advocating for all your fellow EEs. are you getting a phd? good luck with all your assignments.
from italianbeef :
yay for data aggregation in wsn. i'm glad you're enjoying school and research. sounds like you have a great opportunity to work with some awesome people!
from angichau :
oooOOOOO jealous!! i'm glad you're liking your lab and am finding cool projects to work on!!!!

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