Laurie and I spent Christmas down in Florence. After that we drove up to the Liberty Bowl with Amanda Pinion and Sarah Crowe. There, we met Moug, Dirtbag, Amanda (Ringer), Nathan, Craig, and Spencer. We hung out on Beale Street, but the most fun was when we went to GRACELAND!!!! Pictures here.
Laurie [...]
Grades are in; I made all A’s again.
The biggest news is that I got a job offer from Lockheed Martin in Boulder, Colorado. It’s a great offer and I love the location, so I’ve accepted contingent upon Laurie getting into University of Colorado (which she almost certainly will).
I’ve been working on my thesis since [...]
I’ve posted the professional wedding pictures taken by Wiggins Photography online:
Our Engagement Photos
Laurie’s Bridal Photos
Wedding-Day Photos (part 1, part 2)
Since I missed a few posts this semester, I’ll recap. This semester, I took Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems, and VLSI Systems. In Artificial Intelligence, we covered a variety of topics and had several programming projects.
In Embedded Systems, each person was placed in a team of three for the course of the semester. [...]
Today I installed OpenMPI on my home machine (an Intel quad core with 4 GB of ram), because I wanted to be able to write parallel programs that utilize all four cores and scale well to larger clusters (this second requirement disqualified posix threads).
Here were the steps I followed:
I downloaded the latest OpenMPI tarball
I unzipped [...]
Today I set up a subversion repository on my home machine. This was the first time I have set up such a repository to be shared between two people (I’m working with Eric on a project). I encountered some interesting permission issues, so I thought I would reproduce the steps for anybody who [...]
I’m a pretty easy guy to shop for, but if you’re having trouble, here are some Magic the Gathering cards I’d like:
2 Wort Boggart Aunties
3 Scions of Oona
3 Nova Chasers
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Underground River
4 Yavimaya Coast
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Ardarkar Wastes
The links are to a reputable card dealer that I use. You should be [...]
Whew. I think I have all my posts and other content moved over to the new format (Wordpress). The only thing I haven’t moved over is the photo album, which I don’t think I am going to maintain. Enjoy the new format!
Hi everyone. As you can see, I’m upgrading my site to a bloggier (and more standard-compliant) format. Please bear with me.
