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August 2005 - Posts

Thesis students
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 7:52 AM
One of my last meetings before I left was with John Paul Vergara to discuss the thesis students and their topics. There were a few groups who were supposed to consult with me.  I wonder who they are and whether I will end up working with them.
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Fund raising
Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:10 AM
Hey, I'm online!To our gainfully employed alumni: we need funding to train our ACM contestants.  Please donate.  Any amount will help.  :)    (Note that this effort is completely separate from the fund raising for the ACM ICPC
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Vacation
Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:11 AM
The vacation part of my leave begins tomorrow.  Today, I am frantically trying to finish all my remaining obligations.  I am not sure if I will have internet access while I am gone so I may not be blogging for a while.  Take care, all!
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Manipulating emotions
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:33 AM
One of our creative writing assignments was to describe an emotion--joy, anger, envy, wonder, sadness, etc.--without using the word or any of its synonyms in the essay.  The objective was NOT to vent some supressed feelings.  The objective was
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Baby alert
Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:00 AM
After three years of hesitation, we finally had our chow bred.  Assuming all goes well, we should have chowlets by October.  They are the most adorable creatures.  Crabby, but adorable.
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Losing
Monday, August 08, 2005 11:42 AM
I joined a creative writing contest and lost.  I asked for some advice from a friend who has been much more successful at this sort of thing than I ever was or probably ever will be.  How's this for sage advice:...enter a contest out of the
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Masquerade!
Saturday, August 06, 2005 12:30 AM
Our final creative writing assignment is to join an online masquerade.  Each of us will be assigned an anonymous account. At a set time, we will chat with one another using the speech patterns and behavior of a character of your choice.  At
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A matter of principle
Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:40 PM
The last statement two postings ago was a little glib.  I was rushing off and couldn't elaborate then so let me elaborate now.The tone of the discussion was that every job has irritants, things you don't like, people who are unpleasant.  However,
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CS Seniors
Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:49 AM
I spoke to the CS seniors yesterday about possible thesis topics.  One of them, Akie Mejia, mentioned to me that he was the only one who had ever been my student.  A quick scan of the 30-odd faces in the room made me realize he was right. 
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Garbage in...; reasons to resign
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:01 AM
I downloaded some videos that I took using my Treo and was trying to view them on my tablet. I chose a video file at random. Quicktime said it was in an unrecognized format.  I downloaded viewer after viewer.  Nothing would play it. 
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False impressions
Monday, August 01, 2005 5:30 AM
If you think too much of yourself and are condescending to others, you will succeed in antagonizing those around you.Decades ago, my brother told me this anecdote:  A fellow Filipino went abroad and had a coversation with a non-Filipino. The non-Filipino
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