between now and then...

not done yet:

• philosophy paper: Plotinus, emanationism, probably particularly about his metaphor with the sun effortlessly shining out...
  
• compilers project: one milestone to go. Due on the day of the final... this is the big one. Somehow allocate registers and spit working MIPS assembly...
  
• machine translation project: get it finished. Figure out what to do about words in one language that translate to more than one word in the other one...
  
• for research: be ready to take over running the Casebook system for next semester, because Nick is graduating.
  
• arrangements for next year...

Things that are done:

• Lucene whitepaper for technical communications
  
• The second-to-last compilers project
  
• most of the coding for research, for this semester at least

"I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages." --- Umberto Eco, quoted in the New Yorker, via Don Knuth's page about no longer using email