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Alex R ([personal profile] alexr_rwx) wrote2008-12-03 10:24 pm
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awesome things

  • I made a really delicious stir-fry with carrots, onions, garlic, peppers, fake sausage and "General Tso" sauce from Trader Joe's. I didn't eat the whole thing in one sitting. I ate half of it in one sitting, then got hungry again, and now I'm eating the other half.
  • Higher education! So many of my friends are doing PhD-ful things, it's beautiful. Fantastic PhD news this week from the [livejournal.com profile] lindseykuper and [livejournal.com profile] gtv42 camps. I brought up my doctoral aspirations with one of my team leads today -- he said he'd write me a recommendation, woo! Big computer science ahoy. We'll see if I can keep my foot in the door at the Goog with internships...
  • On the googlefront: Picasa. Beautiful. Like iPhoto, but faster and slicker, and for Linux or Windows. It found all my old photos. Including:
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[identity profile] oniugnip.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Well -- thanks for taking me out to Lullwater :) I was having a pretty sucky time period, if I recall correctly.

Speaking of academia -- you've been conference-ing and stuff recently, yes?
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[personal profile] agonistes 2008-12-04 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
It is a lovely kind of place. I miss it! But there are even more geese out here. Some are even by my building. :O

I conferenced about six weeks ago! And I am slowly poking my way toward another project maybe, but it's very far off in the future. Can I ask why you ask?
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