Category Archives: Photo Stuff

Photo Firsts (Keith)

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Here’s my first photo of Keith: November 13, 2004

It was taken before I knew him.
I suppose it makes sense because our lives never intersected (he was a MechE at the time and lived in Morewood) until Tim introduced us at one point when he was walking in the hall as we were going to Tim’s for games… and also because this was the first Kiltie game that I went to.

Also, life has gotten a small update… I filled in the missing gaps in the “August 14 and earlier” dates. Probably not something you’re terribly interested in (although David at Michael’s surprise birthday party is rather awesome). I’ll try and work forward ASAP so there’s more CMU photos posted.

Photo Firsts (Al-Tim, Tim, Greg)

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I took a detour from tagging CMU today to get to the non-school (AKA not CMU nor PPA) folders. Since I’m now doing a chronological posting of things in life, there’s a chance I’ll miss dates that haven’t been tagged yet if there are photos outside the CMU folder. These would be annoying to go back to later, thus I’m going to finish up all the remaining folders before going to tag CMU junior year.

Got a lot of tagging done today though. Managed to tag 5001 photos, for a total of 60238. I’m up to “MsEarlSeniorParty” alphabetically. It was rather interesting going through folders of photos from middle school (most of which I probably haven’t looked at since then) and realizing how few names I remember now. I’ll have to pull out a yearbook at some point to tag them properly.

Since there are people actually following life, I’ll post on here the next time I make an update. With any luck, I’ll have updates to it again starting the end of this week.

In any case, today’s post is the first in a series of “first photos of X” where X is a person. Yay for tagging software making it easy to do random things with your photos! At some point when I’ve tagged everything I’ll post a graph of photos by month and then by camera, for curiosity’s sake.

My first photo of Al-Tim: September 2, 2004. Sitting outside the Physics I for Science Students room before recitation.

My first photo of Tim: September 10, 2004. Sitting next to me in 15200 lecture.

I love how I have a photo of Al-Tim 8 days before having a photo of Tim, despite not knowing Al-Tim for a long time after knowing Tim (which I believe would be after the CS halloween party when we went back to Tim’s room for games).

My first photo of Greg: September 9, 2005. During the KGB Underground Tour. Can you spot him?

Maybe you can spot him easier in this one… this would technically be my second photo of Greg.

Portraits!

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Woke up today feeling kinda sick, so I went back to bed rather than going to work. Felt quite a bit better in the afternoon, so I got some work done. Did pen-based computing (yay). Looked at OS P4 a bit (yay). Played ITG with Andres (whom I hadn’t seen since before summer) and it was awesome. Shot some portraits of Zach, because Zach is awesome and posed for me, and generally satisfied my portraiture urges.

So yeah… tons of photos:














Updates

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I suppose I should update this, since I haven’t in a while and stuff has happened since Thanksgiving.

An Endeca interview happened. No offer, as expected. I suppose that’s just as well. Boston was mostly uneventful.

Some rejection letters happened… rejected three of the five offers I had. Two left to ponder over.

A P4 happened. I wrote the entire lab in about an hour. We’ve just now started debugging it, but it really shouldn’t take too long.

A work happened. I have a huge project for my final 3 days of work. I’m not going to get it anywhere near complete. I swear, my coworkers have way too much faith in me.

Also, complaints:
No one’s been available for portraits, and I haven’t shot any portraits in a semester… starting to feel this intense urge to shoot potraits again. People always seem to be too busy for me. I’m more torn than I thought I would be on my job offers, and one of them has an absolutely-final already-pushed-back-2-weeks-despite-corporate-policy deadline of tomorrow. I haven’t been doing well at ITG. I haven’t been fulfilling my commitments in Pen-based Computing (my group probably thinks I’m the world’s biggest slacker). Went out to try and shoot landscapes of the fresh snow, and that didn’t really work out either. The scroll wheel on my mouse is starting to go… I’m going to have to get used to using scrollbars again. Feeling incredibly inferior at photography after seeing some of the stuff submitted to the yearbook this year by people far more talented than I. No one is ever interested in my card games or anything.
Blah.

On top of everything, I’m almost certainly leaving Pittsburgh forever in under 2 weeks, and that’s really starting to sink in. I’m not ready to go out on my own.

Snow piccar, because why the hell not:

CtFwRM, jobs, kernel, and foo

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Today was the bi-annual game of Capture the Flag with Stuff made more fun by the addition of a certain author of a certain webcomic.
So yeah, I guess it would be more accurate to say there was Capture the Flag with Randall Munroe.
Basically, he came to campus to give a talk and was invited to CtFwS, and stopped by and sat in the judges’ room and talked with people.
I got a photo of myself with him and also got him to sign a t-shirt for me. Awesome. The guy is absolutely brilliant.


I hope I didn’t annoy him too incredibly much with photos.

On the jobs front, in addition to the 5 offers, I completed a Google Pittsburgh interview today, am doing another second round phone interview with Apple sometime next week, and am flying out to Yahoo! for their final round after Thanksgiving. This is generally awesome and amazing. I dunno, I guess it’s still too early to think about jobs, since I need to get unstressed after kernel first, but I can say I’m definitely leaning certain ways.

On the kernel front, I’m feeling much better about things since my last entry. A bit after I wrote that entry, we managed to get wait and exit working, and started running tests… we pass enough basic tests to pass the kernel project, and we only need to pass one more solidity test (out of three unpassed) and one of the two cho tests to pass the kernel. This makes me feel much, much better about the entire thing, because the end is now in sight. Granted, there’s a ton of work to do between now and then (a scheduler rewrite, a shit-ton of race condition bugs to debug, and code to clean up and document), but at least I have some concrete way of showing that we’ve made progress, and that’s awesome.

So yeah, if anyone missed the links above…
Randall Munroe photos (from his talk and CtFwS afterwards)
Capture the Flag with Stuff photos from this semester’s game