Funny things happen to me at the end of a software release (we have one every six months) especially now that they occur at the same time as the end of the semester. My finals are almost over — less than two hours to go — but the release goes on. My mind […]

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Lisa says that using two monitors moves me further in the direction of nerdy. What do you think?

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It’s Friday . . . at least until I go to sleep, when it magically turns into Saturday. Here are some fun feeds to explore over the weekend.

xkcd (feed): You’ll probably like it more if you’re geeky, but as Leslie said, “Herpes is always funny.”
Strange Maps (feed): Old, incorrect, original, and unusual maps.
If it’s […]

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Everything worked out fine in my schedule, and I was able to get into Boston to attend the PRC lecture given by Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. I’m so glad that I was able to go.
I really liked their way of thinking and world view, which is incredibly cerebral (without being academic) […]

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After about a year of thinking it over, I finally bought myself a Toyo View 45CF large format field camera. I’m now officially retro . . . old school.
More details to follow.

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Salut, mes amis. It’s that time of the semester again where I don’t write as much here as I would like because I’m busy writing old school project documents as part of my coursework. Last fall I wrote a software test plan for a fictitious web-based software check-in process. Then last semester, […]

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Dear Lazyweb and/or entrepreneurs,
Here’s what I would like for Christmas or whenever you can get around to it:

A smart card that stores all of my memberships and reward/affinity programs. Imagine one card that has my drugstore, supermarket, bookstore, car rental, (ahem) shoe store, pet store, outdoor store, etc., information on it. Instead of […]

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At The MathWorks, new hires have to post a brief introduction about themselves. The messages are rather formulaic and goß a little something like this:
Hi, I’m Jeff Mather, a not-so-new software engineer in the Image and Scientific Data Formats team, which is a part of the Image and Geospatial Computing group. Before starting […]

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