via gustavolacerda The hardest thing in life is realizing that you have to give up on people.

Tonight, starting around 9pm, a few of us got together and threw a frisbee on The Mall while it was moderately dark out. There was myself, gustavolacerda , incaramos , ivanjager , and sleepsong . It was quite a lot of fun, and there were definitely silly moments. Playing at night made it nice and cooler outside, too. Who'd be up for doing this regularly? I don't know...

Today went by so fast. The latter half of it was hanging out with gustavolacerda , letters_in_sand , chrisamaphone , wjl . Dani taught me the beginning bit of "sweet child o' mine".

RELENTLESS SOCIALITY CONTINUES OMG. dinner with _tove , "The Visitor" with erika b, her housemate zoë; we repaired to Eat 'n' Park for breakfast foods. subpar of all people calls me up says he's in town, drops by. Then gustavolacerda and letters_in_sand do too! Some entertaining conversation all around. Also it was pleasantly not raining on the walk home. We found...

As krhettn pointed out to me, ajju confirmed and gustavolacerda subsequently posted about, there's been a new development: If I get my MS in CS at GT, and then transfer to MIT/Harvard/whatever to do the CS Ph.D., I'd likely have to retake essentially a complete CS MS in their own program. This is apparently a school-by-school policy, so I need call up the various PhD programs...

Woke up mysteriously early — around 7. Couldn't go back to sleep. This turned out to be fortunate, for I ran into wjl on the bus and he reminded me that neelk 's thesis proposal was going on at 9:30, which I then went to. Neat stuff, and seems rather pleasantly practical. Saw gustavolacerda 's talk at noon about inferring causal models. I certainly don't know enough statistics...

So theadana got a playtesting copy of a game from Looney Labs, and a few of us tried it out. I think it is understood to be impolite for me to divulge the mechanic before it is released and all, but: It was pretty good. I liked it. . Afterwards I showed theadana Sketchup and she made this beauty in like only two hours. I am still oh so in favor of 3d modeling programs with such...

Here is a puzzle: Guess what language this is . Hint #1: It is a constructed language. Hint #2: The name of the language (well, all but the final "-n") is spoken during the clip. Hint #3: Milwaukee, Wisconsin. --- gustavolacerda and drquuxum got it: It's Talossan .

Last night I stumbled across another one of those AQ ("autism quotient") tests via gustavolacerda 's wiki ( here ) - test . One of the items on the test was "Other people frequently tell me that what I've said is impolite, even though I think it is polite." (you're supposed to Agree/Disagree.) This made me think about something that it's been hard for me to learn -- that in communication...

I just got back from visiting Pittsburgh. The visit was great, and this year's group of freshmen seems awesome. I think I graduated too early! Thanks to chrisamaphone and gustavolacerda for giving me a place to stay, and for them and everyone else I saw for making the visit awesome! I'm now in Chicago, moved into my new apartment. Orientation starts on Monday; classes start two weeks...