Cousin

I love babies. They're just so precious. And now I am once-more a cousin as my aunt recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. It times like these where I realize just how old I am; I mean, I'm two decades older than this child.
Well, welcome to the world Piper.

Down for the Count [Not for the Squeamish]

My god. For the first time in forever I'm sick. Really sick. I'm almost never sick - and I can't remember the last time I vomited. God!

Capture the Flag with Stuff

One of the groups here on campus runs a bi-annual game of Capture the Flag with Stuff. The rules are pretty complicated, but basically it's CTF with "magical" items to make things more interesting. It's played in two of the buildings here on campus (which are connected at many points). And it is a great deal of fun (and exhausting). Nothing is quite so fun as silently infiltrating the computer science building.
Speaking of which, while playing I rediscovered a wall plaque that I last saw two years ago as a prospective student. I remember almost losing the our group as I read a select portion of Alan Perlis' epigrams (though, of course, I forgot what they were or who wrote them so I couldn't Google them. Well, running through the halls playing CTF (likely trying to save my life) I found them again!

Neon Boombox

aSTARick is now included in Neon Boombox - an application to run on embedded Mac systems in cars.

First Snow

Today was Pittsburgh's first snow of the season. I don't care how old I get, I will always like the first snow. Even whipping along on my bicycle it was beautiful (and charmingly cold).
Of course, in typical Pittsburgh fashion, once it stopped snowing, it all melted and became dark, wet, and dreary.