Had a very nice dinner last night at Soto last night. I’m not exactly sold on the foodie thing, but that doesn’t mean the experience wasn’t enjoyable. Now it’s back to work with a couple looming paper deadlines and a bunch of coding I want to get done for the internship.
Walked from brooklyn back to manhattan yesterday evening. It was great to chat with Justin Cappos, a professor at NYU Poly who was previously at UW. It’s valuable to get glimpses into other schools, and to start getting a sense of how phd work transitions in academia.
I’m living in New York this fall. It has been nice to begin to hit a routine here, although there are still plenty of places to optimize. My only other previous big city experience was in Beijing, and NYC is different in many ways, but has much of the same raw energy and constant bustling that I found there. It’s been particularly interesting to see the different ways that the huge populations show themselves, and how people carve out their own niches.
Now that I have a non-biking commute I’m excited to start reading more. I’m not sure I buy into the whole good-reads thing that Amazon is pushing on me, but the kindle form factor is nice in that it’s small enough to fit in my back pocket and pull out on the subway.
Also interesting, to setup the device I typed the first three letters of my amazon account ID, and then it logged in. Not sure if there was a race condition where it was checking it’s serial number against amazon’s registration database at the same time, but it was an interesting and vaguely unsettling experience since it has 1-click access to credit card purchases.
I completed the Generals requirements at UW today, and have advanced to a doctoral candidate.
Happy to see BladeDroid appear at APSys next month. BladeDroid is Ravi’s project to figure out how to translate user scripts (browser extensions) into Android and get users back in control of their Apps.
