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Hairy Legged Crabs and Japanese Class

“If you look closely, you can see huge river crabs with hair growing out of their legs, frozen in place like stones.”
Ew.
In my mind, at least, hair and crustaceans should never mix.
This semester I’m taking a seminar-style class in Japanese translation. We’ve only met once so far, and we’re currently reading “Kinosaki Nite” (「城の崎にて」in [...]

one day in CS173 section

Yesterday was my last day as a TA (for the time being, at least). After two semesters teaching discrete math, I have to say the thing I will most miss (other than free whiteboard markers, of course) is having office hours, which have unreasonably fun this semester, mostly due to the size and regularity [...]

today was a directed, cyclic graph

So I was at yummy-night (ACM’s version of Thanksgiving Dinner), and towards the end of the meal Sean notified me that he knew of a Japanese ad I really needed to see.
“Really? What is it?”
“It’s this dog in an iPhone commercial!”
“Oh, wait, you mean the one I tweeted this morning?”[I am working on paper [...]

the “new” ACM office

As a result of several factors, ACM officers recently decided that something needed to be done about the office. If you look at previous pictures, you can see that indeed it was a huge mess. Effectively, the changes aim to make the front office more of a “professional” environment (ACM is a professional [...]

halfway

I have been utterly silent for the first half of this semester. Being way too busy has not been good for me, but now that physics has ended (hooray for half-semester classes) my commitments have slightly diminished. In case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing for the past 7.5 weeks, here’s a summary:
Week [...]



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