Apostrophic Chunder

Recognize my achievement. Print this out and stick it on your fridge.

We are starting a veggie garden. I just finished building the cedar boxes. This patch of earth gets 6-7 hours of sun every day. I hope that is enough!

She just used scientific notation to describe how much of a dick somebody is.

Super dragon buffet fountain!!!

You try, you like!

Man down. Stephen G is getting married so today we fish, shoot, and BBQ.

should include RISD art museum.

Sippin' on beverages in adirondack chairs, the scene is beat.

In the courtyard of the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport
RI - formerly known as Newport Casino.

On the ferry to Martha's Vineyard. I think it's about 45 degrees out here.

I could blame my old lady but I want this just as bad. The name of this cupcake shop was actually CupCapes of Falmouth on account of it being on the Cape.

The view from the room.

Fresh cod fish and chips, long trail and variety of Sam on tap
everywhere... Tonight - crab cakes, lobster bisque, lobster ravioli
with lobster claw meat on top... wall to wall fishing history and
seafood and sick beach houses... and rain.

I bombed that final tonight. Not especially nifty but at least I only have one final left to go and then a brief respite on the Cape before diving into the internship.

Dr. Arch Harris introduced this term in CS350 [Computer Organization] class when I mentioned that I did not remember something from some other CS class. It's the sort of learning that is ingrained in us by the way the majority of major educational institutions operate. We are introduced to the material, tested on the material, and then we move on. There are some with elephantine memories for whom retaining volumes of seemingly trivial unrelated bits of information comes easily. I am not one of those. Some subconscious part of me shakes the hell out of my etch-a-sketch upon completion of most academic trials. In some cases this may happen just moments after pencils down on the exam. Far from trivial, CS350 was a very informative class about what goes on under the hood of a modern computer system. We wrote a simple translator, an interpreter, and microprograms in binary. Apparently we wrote the binary code to emphasize the reason why nobody does that. Anyway I'm studying for the final. I'm trying to fit onto my etch-a-sketch how virtual memory paging works, expanding opcodes in the instruction set architecture, and what a bunch of arbitrary bit patterns do in a proprietary simulated machine (that I may never see again). The good news is that with today's information-bloated fracas-structure, I can fill my etch-a-sketch up for free any time I want - or keep it as empty as Lao Tzu might suggest.

Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.

-- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11