60,000 scrobbles
I used to post these on Facebook as Notes, but since the Timeline
refactor, I frankly have no idea how to use Notes; so I guess I'll just
post on my own blog. I use last.fm (me) to track my
music-listening habits (and sometimes for other things). As of some time
recently, I've passed 60,000 scrobbled plays since 2006. Yay!

Here's a graph I made (click for ps version; gnuplot continues to be
the best thing ever):

Cheers, all.
Merry 2012
I know I'm a bit late to the party, but Merry 2012. As a sort of
celebration, here's my favorite animated GIF of all time (courtesy of
Evan a long time ago):

Maybe I'll actually write some useful content this year.
n+1 years
One year ago tomorrow, I graduated from college. As my younger
friends graduated today (thanks for the quasi-livestream, Skye), I
actually realized this fact: it's been a year. A year as one of the
dead. A year in the real world. It's bloody strange. On some level, it's
unbelievable that I've been out for a whole year. Graduation was just a
couple of weeks ago, wasn't it? I can still remember lectures good and
bad, evenings in the muddhole, nights working in Platt, as though it
were all just yesterday. On another level, though, it almost feels like
I've been …
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A word on dreams
We use the terms "bad dream" and "nightmare" almost synonymously. I
contend that this is a frightfully naïve perspective. When we wake from
a nightmare, we shortly realize that the floor isn't made of spiders,
that all of the clowns are safely at the circus. But a dream in which we
are happy… ah! Such a dream can color the real world world a darker
shade long after the dreamer has awoken. These are truly the bad dreams.
Afni - Scam?
I got a letter in the mail on Saturday from a company named Afni, Inc.,
a debt collection company. This letter informed me that my debt
of $188 to DirecTV was being collected by them. Of course, I've never
had any dealings with DirecTV (aside from interviewing for a job there a
couple of years ago), so I knew that this was a bogus notice. Come
Monday morning, I called their 1-888 number and, after waiting on hold
for 20 minutes, was connected to a bored-sounding agent. She asked me
for the last four digits of my social security number …
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Graduated
So, Sunday was my college graduation. I'm now a college graduate. Wow,
that's weird to write. If you're curious about we details, I hold a
Bacheleor of Science in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College
with overall academic distinction and with departmental honors in
two departments. Woo.
It's really weird to be done. I keep expecting that this will just be a
break, that things will be back to normal soon. I'd really gotten used
to things at Mudd, I was really happy there. Mudders: I already miss
you. In retrospect, there are a lot of things that I should …
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