Author Archives: Michael

Me.

Caltech doesn’t know what girls want

“We don’t know what girls want. We’re Caltech!”
–Camden J., Caltech undergrad, at an Avery house meeting.

Looking back at typeset documents

I had to dig out an older LaTeX typeset document just moments earlier since I needed it for something else. And damn, LaTeX typeset documents always distract the hell out of me since it makes text look so beautiful. Instead of reading the content, I’m admiring every single letter, the glyphs in the italics, the [...]

Slow working days

I’ve been trying to implement radial distribution function calculating in python these past two days. The biggest hurdle was trying to figure out exactly how to do it. I looked at two molecular/chemistry simulation books and they had small differences in logic with little explanation. I also looked at some other code I found in [...]

Deleted link posts

I realized that the delicious link posts were just making my blog a sort of link spam site. So I took them all down. I also finally accepted the fact that I’m not a person who wants to constantly put details of my life online. Frankly, all the interesting things I could write are probably [...]

Dave Doing Homework

Steve: “Dave said he couldn’t come since he’s doing homework.”
Me: “Homework?! He never used to do homework?!?!”
Steve: “Yeah, I know! And wrap your mind around this: He’s doing homework in the summer.”
Me: “He’s been brainwashed. It’s no longer the Dave we know…”

End of Junior Year

Yeah, I failed at microblogging. That’s kind of sad. But anyway, I’m finishing up my finals week (I have to complete this essay and take one more final), and then heading back to Philly for a short break. Hopefully, I can finish the essay by the end of today…

Powerset Revolution

I guess I’ve been pretty bad at even microblogging. That’s kind of sad :). Well, a new “search engine” called Powerset released a wikipedia demo today, and it’s a mini-revolution in search. This company will change the way people search the web.

Non-stop Work

This week has been pretty exhausting already. For this term, it looks like Wednesday nights are my only “free time”. So far, I’ve been working almost non-stop from Monday to 6PM today on various assignments and this really tough Ch 21c set that took about two whole days to complete. Well, at least I can [...]

Finally moved over to UGCS

I’ve finally moved over to UGCS for real. Yay for fast and free servers!

Hendrix, Frusciante, and Clapton

“Jimi Hendrix is God
John Frusciante is Jesus
Eric Clapton is Moses”
–in the comments of a Youtube video on John Frusciante.