Welcome to my collection of links, ramblings, and random tidbits.

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MIT ::= trying to take a drink from a firehose

School ::= MIT | EECS | Computer Science and AI Lab | Sidney Pacific
Research ::= Database Group | C-Store | Software Design Group | Alloy | My Research Abstract
Student Groups ::= Eta Kappa Nu | Course VI Underground Guide (certificates required) | EECS GSA | Tau Beta Pi
Classwork ::= MIT Subject Listing | Operating Systems Engineering | Database Systems
Hacking ::= GDB | Python Docs | Perl Docs | Java 5.0 API

Non-MIT ::= life outside the MIT bubble

Daily Digest ::= Slashdot | Google News | Beyond Satire
Comic Relief ::= Calvin and Hobbes | FoxTrot | Sherman's Lagoon | Get Fuzzy
On Hackers ::= Paul Graham | Peter Norvig | Phil Greenspun [ Software Engineering for Web Apps] [ SQL for Web Nerds ]
Mac OS X ::= Adium X | X Lab
Old School ::= Saint Ignatius College Prep

eSlides ::= my web slideshow generator

Chen's Birthday - 6.19.2005 | Mount Tamalpais - 6.11.2005 | MIT Graduation - 6.3.2005 | Dinner in Chinatown - 5.21.2005 | Karaoke Night with Little Family - 5.13.2005 | Senior Ball 2005 - 4.30.2005 | Springbreak Cruise to Jamaica and Cayman Islands - 3.19 - 3.24.2005 | Dinner before Clubbing Night - 3.18.2005

Reading List ::= a luxury during the school year

Books I've read recently

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
The Design of Everday Things by Donald Norman
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Database Management Systems by Raghu Ramakrishnan, et al.

Books I'm Reading

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Learning Python, 2nd Edition by Mark Lutz and David Ascher
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Books I'd Like to Read

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind by David Livingstone Smith
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomson

Created 9.3.2004 - edmond@mit.edu