Author Archives: matt

The CD Cover meme: follow a series of steps to randomly generate text and images, which you then combine to get something indy-looking. Since I have no flickr account, I post here: (Image La petite plage by Bertrand Monney, used … Continue reading →

Look at me! I’m blogging from Cafe 1842 in Waterloo, like the cool kids do! Last week at the conference, I blandly assured my old advisor (after several drinks on both of our parts) that a certain statement about objects … Continue reading →

The car dealership where I get the vehicle serviced has introduced free wi-fi. Hott. In other news: last week was my usual Florida conference, which I only caught about two days off this time out because of it not being … Continue reading →

Jeff Healey has died. I tuned into contemporary pop/rock music when I was about twelve. (Before that, pretty much all I knew about rock was from my dad’s Beatles LPs. As groundworks go, that’s a pretty good one to have.) … Continue reading →

You know you’re in trouble when the main result in a paper you’re reading takes up half a page to state. Not prove; state. You’re in bigger trouble if you’re writing said paper. Well, more or less writing. One of … Continue reading →

My computer at work won’t turn on today. It’s done this is the past, but now it looks like it means it. So I’ve got my laptop in the office, which isn’t quite as useful because it has less screen … Continue reading →

I would love it if there were a weather site that didn’t treat Canadian and American weather systems as entirely disjoint. Weather Underground has a lot of good things going for it, but it’s a little too hung up on … Continue reading →

At my university, it seems that winning a research medal doesn’t get you a Special Merit Award (read: “bonus”); securing a large grant, however ill-fated, does. Given that I did both, yay me! Also, I just scribbled out my likely … Continue reading →

Since my last post, the following things have happened: On December 15th, I drove to Kitchener through winter’s greatest hits (though I stayed ahead of the actual snowstorm until arriving at my destination for that night. December 15th-20th: wandered around … Continue reading →

Finally finished marking final exams, and I can’t submit my grades because I can’t log in to the system. Damn it.