The main news is that I made a big mistake and I'm paying for it. I double-counted a class, thinking it could fulfill two requirements, but it didn't, so now I'm taking a summer school …

I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge with Seth today, to commemorate its birthday. Before that, I met interesting people, namely, Seth's friends Danny and Quinn. (Leonard was very, very excited about this.) It can …

Oh, and I finished Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel a week ago or so. I'm glad I did so. It's quite enlightening and actually gives one a newish paradigm for history that makes sense …

Leonard loves the crankiness of Losing the Race by John McWhorter. I love the anecdotes. I'd be fine with a book that just contained the anecdotes from all of McWhorter's other books, and lectures, if …

So, yeah, I'm done with school. I'm pretty glad about it. I sat between Mike Carns and Jade for the Logic final, and finished among the first few in the room. I did rather well, …

You know what I love about Leonard? Among other things, he writes sentences that I'm pretty sure have never been written or said before. McWhorter used "Admit it, my friends -- the woman hasn't even …

Now I know Unix, and Russian, and close analysis, and some history and literature and politics and economics, and some handball and judo and linguistics and logic. Today I prove that last one, 12:30-3:30.

Graduation: I graduated today. That is, I dressed up in the cap and gown that Shweta lent me, with a gold tassel from my high school mortarboard (which differentiated me from my blue-and-gold-tasseled classmates), and …

BookFinder's Fifth Anniversary Extravaganza (a history of the company) is laugh-out-loud funny and worth reading.

Computer scientists are always talking about the halting problem. Halting problem? What halting problem? When I want to shut down my computer, I go to a prompt and type, "halt", and hit Enter. What's the …