COMPLETE MICROLOG ("tweeting" since 2001)
2010
| February 2 |
Awarded Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship! |
| January 28 |
Peg cap. |
| January 28 |
DorkBot Pittsburgh talk on data tapestries. |
| January 26 |
Give talk on Whack Gestures. Meet Meng for dinner. |
| January 24 |
Off to TEI, Boston. |
| January 22 |
Friendship house party. |
| January 21 |
Improv night. Lost wallet adventure. |
| January 16 |
Saturday. |
| January 13 |
Learn to unicycle. Reasonable. |
| January 12 |
West coast swing. |
| January 11 |
Back in the 'burgh. Six month countdown starts... |
| January 9 |
Drive to kingston, explore briefly. Port Royal. Ship wreck. Flight home. |
| January 8 |
Relax. Lovers Leap. Little Ochie for dinner. |
| January 7 |
YS Falls. Black River. Boat to Pelican Bar for sunset. |
| January 6 |
Accompong Maroon Festival. |
| January 5 |
Hit road again. Montego Bay briefly, through Cockpit country, Treasure Beach for a few days. |
| January 4 |
Depart. Visit Ochio Rios, Firefly estate. Stay in Falmouth. Phosphorescent lagoon at night. |
| January 3 |
Heavy rains. Rio Grande rafting in afternoon. |
| January 2 |
Along the north coast to Boston Bay. Jerk! Beautiful Reach Falls. |
| January 1 |
Off to Jamaica with family. Navigate car through Blue Mtns. Port Antonio by nightfall. |
2009
| December 29 |
CHI camera ready scramble |
| December 27 |
Drive to etown. |
| December 26 |
Coffee with Paul Westcott, another old friend. |
| December 24 |
Meet up with Amy Kakkanatt. Long time no see! |
| December 22 |
Semester over. Fly to NY to unwind with family. |
| December 17 |
Brainstorm with Rob and Michael on Fall 2010 XRDS issue. |
| December 13 |
Hack together electrical fiduciary prototype with ZQ. |
| December 12 |
Five papers accepted to CHI. Wild. |
| December 11 |
HCII holiday party. |
| December 8 |
After essentially three weeks on the go, return home. |
| December 6 |
Fly to Seattle for MSR Fellowship interviews. |
| December 5 |
Hang out with Lana and Eugene. |
| December 2 |
Fly to Atlanta for CHI Program Committee meeting. |
| November 30 |
Unload truck all day. House looks rocking'. |
| November 29 |
Drive truck of furniture back to the 'burgh. Emily co-pilot. |
| November 21 |
Visit family, chill at home, much deserved break. |
| November 20 |
Hash out new vision for Crossroads; to relaunch as XRDS. |
| November 19 |
Fly to ACM HQ with Tom for Crossroads editors meeting. |
| November 16 |
Meet with Bayer Material Science. Interesting stuff! |
| November 12 |
Intel Labs Pittsburgh open house. |
| November 10 |
Tom Bartindale arrives for week. Fun and research ensues. |
| November 8 |
Go flying with ZQ! Burgh, CMU flyover. Awesome. |
| November 6 |
Attend fist Disney Research Pittsburgh meeting. |
| October 31 |
Evaline. |
| October 25 |
Rob and Holly visit. Pumpkin carving! |
| October 14 |
Roommate Joseph departs the burgh. |
| October 10 |
Inhabited Web wins Best UI. Tvitter wins second best overall hack. |
| October 9 |
Meet Jill Duffy. Discuss future of ACM Crossroads. |
| October 8 |
Fly to NYC for Yahoo OpenHack Day. |
| October 6 |
Give Abracadabra talk. Announce SIC winners! |
| October 5 |
Student Innovation contest. Popular, cool ideas. |
| October 4 |
UIST kicks off in Victoria, BC. PSK contest. |
| October 1 |
Depart Germany for San Francisco. See Elyse. |
| September 30 |
VisComTec panel on interaction. Dusseldorf. |
| September 28 |
Begin CHI AC duties. |
| September 27 |
Depart for England. See Jane. |
| September 24 |
G20 arrives in Pittsburgh. |
| September 19 |
Precariously lower washer/dryer into basement. |
| September 17 |
CHI Deadline. Five papers submitted. |
| September 15 |
NSF SEVC deadline. |
| September 9 |
Elyse departs for Stanford. |
| September 4 |
Carrie Steel Mill exploration. |
| September 3 |
IKEA run for new Impact Lab. |
| September 2 |
Stacking fiducials paper accepted to ITS/Tabletop. |
| August 23 |
Begin week of unpacking new house. |
| August 22 |
Depart MSR, pacific northwest. |
| August 15 |
UIST SIC registration closes. Popular. |
| August 14 |
Shooting video for bio-acoustic demos. |
| August 13 |
Named as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Crossroads. |
| August 10 |
Two notes off to TEI 2010. |
| August 7 |
SIGGRAPH wraps up. Whew! |
| August 2 |
Beignets with Rob. Explore city. |
| August 1 |
Land in New Orleans for SIGGRAPH 2009. |
| July 31 |
Initial results crunched and look great. |
| July 27 |
Week of user studies begins. |
| July 19 |
Continue up coast, BBQ lunch, views, good times. |
| July 18 |
Sandboarding, coast drive, BBQ, camp in town park. |
| July 17 |
Depart for Portland. Explore. Eat. |
| July 9 |
Final hardware built for MSR project. |
| July 1 |
Family visits for a week. Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver, and more. |
| June 26 |
VIBE poker night at Greg's. |
| June 22 |
House closing. Done. Whew. Wee! |
| June 9 |
Abracadabra input technique accepted to UIST. |
| June 6 |
Digit interview. |
| May 30 |
Depart for Seattle, Microsoft Research. |
| May 28 |
Sony Ericsson presentation. |
| May 27 |
Last minute house items. Fly to NC. |
| May 21 |
Return home to catch up with family, recoup. |
| May 20 |
Find Renters for old apartment. |
| May 12 |
Wired interview. |
| May 9 |
Mom arrives for weekend. Scope out house; relax. |
| May 7 |
Star Trek movie. |
| May 6 |
Popular Mechanics interview. |
| April 29 |
Walk-through with inspector. Knowledge doubles. |
| April 27 |
Offer accepted! Own a house?! |
| April 25 |
Pwned on Graham. Set sights on Friendship Ave. |
| April 24 |
Last round of houses. Put offer on Graham St. |
| April 23 |
Houses round two with Esther. Stephen joins in. |
| April 22 |
First look at homes to buy, with Jason. |
| April 17 |
Buggy, Mobot races. Awesomeness. |
| April 16 |
Dinner with Steve Cousins. |
| April 10 |
Explore Boston with Elyse. |
| April 9 |
Present work on textural interfaces. |
| April 7 |
Aubrey presents work on visual reaction time. |
| April 6 |
Present work on deformable multitouch displays. |
| April 5 |
CHI kicks off. |
| March 31 |
Three papers off to UIST. |
| March 26 |
Battlestar Galactica finale at Stephen's. |
| March 20 |
New MacBook arrives. |
| March 19 |
HCII PhD open house. |
| March 7 |
Super Hero party. GI Joe. |
| February 28 |
Dan Fitz visits. |
| February 26 |
CBS story on HCII. |
| February 20 |
London Cuckolds show. |
| February 16 |
CMU homepage story. |
| February 5 |
Guest lecture HCI for non-majors class. |
| February 4 |
Invited to present at SIGGRAPH emerging tech demos. |
| January 20 |
Obama inauguration. |
| January 18 |
Ben Visits. Go Steelers! |
| January 16 |
Red Dragon registered for another two years. Wee! |
| January 15 |
Accept summer internship at Microsoft Research. |
| January 12 |
CHI camera ready deadline. Mad scramble! |
| January 11 |
Day in Entebbe. Swim. Botanical gardens. Begin journey home. |
| January 10 |
Return to Kampala. Eat. Shop. Soak up last rays of African sun. |
| January 9 |
Whitewater raft the Nile. |
| January 8 |
Hike to Sipi Falls. Drive south to Jinja. |
| January 7 |
Back to Uganda. Car overheats. Limp into Sipi. |
| January 6 |
Lake Nakuru National Park. Rhinos. Illness! Dig car out. |
| January 5 |
Hit the road for Nakuru. Menengai Crater. |
| January 4 |
Kakamega Forest. Primates. |
| January 3 |
Hunt for Meswa Bridge. |
| January 2 |
Push into Western Kenya. Kisumu. |
| January 1 |
No luck getting across the Rwanda border. Full speed back to Kampala. |
2008
| December 31 |
Market by boat. Paddle around in dugout canoe. Kick back. Swim. |
| December 30 |
Hiking in Bwindi N.P. Push on to beautiful Lake Bunyonyi. |
| December 29 |
Hit up Ishasha in morning, Bwindi in evening. |
| December 28 |
Day in Queen Elizabeth N.P. Lions! Jaguar! |
| December 27 |
Semliki N.P. Kasese. See Batwa (pigmy) people. Afternoon in Q.E.N.P. |
| December 26 |
Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale National Forest. |
| December 25 |
Spend Christmas hiking the Rwenzori Mountains. |
| December 24 |
On route to Fort Portal. Rough road takes all day. |
| December 22 |
Nile River. Wildlife. Shores of Lake Albert. Forest fires. |
| December 21 |
Wrap up all remaining CHI edits. Depart for Murchison Falls N.P. |
| December 19 |
Mom and Ben arrive. |
| December 16 |
Scott presents 3D video conf. paper at IEEE ISM. |
| December 12 |
Spend week working on CHI papers, hanging out with dad. |
| December 11 |
Three CHI papers accepted. Depart for Uganda. |
| December 8 |
Interviewed on WORD-FM 101.5 |
| December 1 |
Return to the 'burgh. |
| November 23 |
Back to NY for Thanksgiving break with family. |
| November 22 |
Deliver keynote. Explore Munster. Drink with Karl, Else and co. |
| November 20 |
Depart PIT for Munster, Germany. |
| November 15 |
CHI rebuttals submitted. |
| November 10 |
CHI reviews released. |
| November 6 |
TEI '09 program committee invite. Ph.D. dinner at Aubrey's. Fajitas! |
| November 5 |
Dinner with Elyse. Fetched water. |
| November 2 |
Churrasco dinner with Brian. |
| October 31 |
Halloween with Joseph and Sarah. |
| October 30 |
Meet with Curt Stone. |
| October 24 |
Give iEPG talk at UXTV. Meet up with Julia & Judy in SF! |
| October 22 |
Present Placement-Aware Mobile Computing at UIST. |
| October 21 |
Present Scratch Input at UIST. |
| October 17 |
Joseph is new housemate. Whack Gestures to Pervasive '09. |
| October 15 |
Get yellow fever vaccination. |
| October 13 |
Bible viz to appear in 12/8 issue of SZ-Wissen. |
| October 10 |
Yahoo Hack competition. Inhabited Web nets 1st place, 5K. |
| October 8 |
Ultrasonic doppler round two. |
| October 4 |
Pittsburgh 250 fireworks extravaganza. |
| October 1 |
Present research at Intel Research Seattle open house. |
| September 26 |
Bible cross references visualization in Science. |
| September 25 |
Bible viz runner-up in NSF's SEVC. MSNBC, National Geographic. |
| September 23 |
First workout with Polo. |
| September 19 |
Four papers submitted to CHI '09. Internet Maps in Freitag. |
| September 17 |
Article on viz projects to appear in Oct. issue of Popular Mechanics Russia. |
| September 15 |
Internet Maps to appear in October issue of Physics World. |
| September 13 |
OpenMosaic launches. |
| September 8 |
Jump Mobile phone arrives. |
| September 5 |
Demo pneumatic tactile displays to GM. |
| September 5 |
Viz projects on MTV Engine Room website. |
| August 27 |
Internet Maps to appear in DAG. |
| August 26 |
Long summer comes to a close. Classes start. Feel energized. |
| August 23 |
Foam party. |
| August 20 |
3D video conferencing paper accepted to IEEE ISM. |
| August 20 |
iEPG paper accepted to UXTV '08. |
| August 17 |
First projection tests for pneumatically driven tactile displays. |
| August 14 |
Rob Schatz visits. Baseball, concert and fireworks. |
| August 13 |
Motherboard Walls featured on Gizmodo, hack-a-day, others. |
| August 11 |
Nominated for SXSW panel. |
| August 10 |
Mix of long pools and riffles. Bald eagles. Pull out near
Tionesta. |
| August 9 |
Had rainy night. Cook breakfast on raft. Appreciate nice
weather. |
| August 8 |
On road early. Push off from Warren. Lightening terrifies
crew. |
| August 7 |
Load raft on top of car, gear in back. Prepare mentally. |
| August 6 |
Get food for raft trip. Last items. |
| August 5 |
Bible visualizations on Reddit, others. |
| August 3 |
Internet map visualization used in Popular Mechanics. |
| August 2 |
Second raft float test successful. Ready to go. |
| August 1 |
Bible visualization to appear in Science as part of NSF SEVC. |
| July 29 |
Helping Hesham with iPhone app. |
| July 28 |
CollaboraTV UXTV paper accepted. Raft complete. |
| July 27 |
Pelmini party. |
| July 26 |
Pittsburgh water balloon fight. Raft float test. |
| July 25 |
Get barrels. Begin building raft. |
| July 22 |
Meet Julia, third rafter. Ben visits for a week. |
| July 18 |
After 6 years on Hesh's server, chrisharrison.net moves to
pay hosting. |
| July 17 |
Early morning departure home. Bye Caucasus. |
| July 16 |
Taxi to Tatev. Swim in springs. Back to Yerevan; Khor Virap
on route. |
| July 15 |
Southwards to Goris. |
| July 14 |
Explore Yerevan & Echmiadzin. Golden Apricot Film Festival. |
| July 13 |
See UNESCO monasteries, Push down to Dijian. |
| July 12 |
Davit Gareja. Cross into Armenia. Stay in Alaverdi, Debed
Canyon. |
| July 11 |
Depart for Mtskheta. Gori in afternoon. Stalin museum. |
| July 10 |
Go for afternoon hike in mountains. |
| July 9 |
Arrive in beautiful Kasbegi. |
| July 8 |
Cross into Georgia. Telavi for the night. Alaverdi Cathedral. |
| July 7 |
See Seki, Kis, market, Khan palace. |
| July 6 |
Depart from Quba. Explore Baku. $5 overnight train to Seki. |
| July 5 |
Hike to Laza. Abandoned by guide. Hitchhike to Quba. |
| July 4 |
Xinaliq via Quba. Hassled by corrupt police. |
| July 3 |
Charter taxi to Qobustan petroglyphs, mud volcanoes. Run
out of gas. |
| July 2 |
Explore Tbilisi. Depart for Baku, Azerbaijan, via overnight
train. |
| July 1 |
Catch bus to Tbilisi, Georgia. Meet up with Stacey. |
| June 30 |
Land in Yerevan, Armenia. 23 hours of travel; stretch legs. |
| June 29 |
Modifying Internet Maps for use in Popular Mechanics article. |
| June 27 |
Speak with Modern Marvels producer about projectile weapon
accuracy. |
| June 23 |
Scratch Input and Placement Detection papers accepted to UIST. |
| June 21 |
Rachael Carson Trail Challenge; keel over at mile 32 (of 34). |
| June 17 |
Pick up wigs for Turadg raft figure head. |
| June 15 |
Get permit for raft. HCII BBQ. |
| June 11 |
Researching raft river route. |
| June 6 |
Wireless access restored after 45-day suspension for traffic
abuse. |
| June 3 |
Submit UIST rebuttals. Digg Rings on Infosthetics, other blogs. |
| June 2 |
Multitouch table finally built and working. |
| May 31 |
Submit to NSF Visualization Challenge. |
| May 30 |
Submit IRB forms for eight projects. |
| May 29 |
Aperture Magazine issue with Internet Map hits the presses. |
| May 28 |
UIST paper reviews. |
| May 27 |
ZQ sends first subliminal dialog test code. |
| May 25 |
Digg Rings visualization posted. |
| May 24 |
Word Association visualization posted. |
| May 22 |
O Boticário perfumes with Internet Map box art arrive. |
| May 20 |
Church Brew Works HCII dinner. |
| May 17 |
Help Stacey move to PGH. Motorcycle at last! |
| May 16 |
AT&T Labs files three more patents. |
| May 14 |
Book tickets to Uganda. |
| May 13 |
Metropolis Magazine call. ADAA Semifinalist. |
| May 12 |
Fly home. |
| May 10 |
Party at Chris and Clint's pad. |
| May 9 |
Acrylic restock. Trigrams viz on Google System, other sites. |
| May 8 |
Gadgets final, ultrasonic doppler demoed. |
| May 6 |
Texture Interfaces project kicks off. |
| May 2 |
Order SD1000 camera. |
| April 30 |
Trigram and Word Spectrum Visualizations finished. |
| April 28 |
Internet Maps run in Die Zeit. |
| April 27 |
Amazon book map visualization finally posted. |
| April 26 |
Prepare visas for Armenia and Azerbaijan. |
| April 25 |
Tele-present at "W(e are) here" exhibit party. |
| April 25 |
Get hold of Google n-gram data. Begin new viz project. |
| April 24 |
Begin researching subliminal effects. Project with ZQ. |
| April 23 |
Submit work for Die Gestalten's DATAFLOW. |
| April 22 |
Get ultrasonic doppler working. Magnetic fur materials. |
| April 21 |
Submit Pediluma to ISWC. |
| April 18 |
CollaboraTV paper submitted to CSCW. Assembling CV. |
| April 17 |
Final visualizations sent off to Migropolis editors. |
| April 14 |
Family Departs. Film parody orientation video with Brian. |
| April 13 |
Pamela's, Pirates game, National Aviary, PHIPPS, & CMU. |
| April 12 |
Ben, squash, family arrives, drinks and food. |
| April 11 |
Fly home. Finish Color Flower viz. Meet Ben in the 'Burgh. |
| April 8 |
Present Lean and Zoom at CHI '08. |
| April 6 |
Bologna with Aubrey. Dinner in tiny Italian town. |
| April 5 |
Tromp around Rome. Colosseum, Pantheon, Vatican and more. |
| April 3 |
Create Lost parody graphics. Depart for CHI. Color Flower
viz. |
| April 2 |
Five papers submitted to UIST, one to UbiComp. |
| April 2 |
Production of homme/femme perfume begins. |
| March 28 |
Obama rally. Open House. |
| March 26 |
3D Video Conferencing & Scratch Input submitted to UIST. |
| March 25 |
Run final participant for Scratch Input. Results strong. |
| March 22 |
Weekend of paper writing. Eight due in next two weeks. |
| March 20 |
Book tickets for Caucasus adventure this summer. |
| March 17 |
Wearable computing reaction time study kicks off. |
| March 11 |
Internet Maps to appear in Die Zeit. |
| March 8 |
XRD analysis complete on Oyukkiran Tepesi rocks. |
| March 5 |
OSNews runs story on progress bar research. |
| March 4 |
Helping with the History Channel's "Ancient Discoveries." |
| March 2 |
Progress bar research discussed on Coding Horror blog. |
| March 1 |
Internet Maps displayed in this month's GIS Magazine. |
| February 28 |
Order PCBs for wearable computing reaction time study. |
| February 27 |
National Post article on visualizations hits the press. |
| February 25 |
Tweak final progress bar study parameters with Zhiquan. |
| February 24 |
3D video conference demo coded up. |
| February 23 |
Run sling workshops at CMU. Multispectral sensor built. |
| February 21 |
Visualizations to appear at Detroit's Museum of New Art. |
| February 17 |
Finish reorganizing and refreshing site. |
| February 15 |
New computer. Visualizing the Bible on Nack's Adobe Blog. |
| February 14 |
Sixth AT&T patent off to USPTO. |
| February 14 |
First round of Open Source Art interviews. Advisory Board. |
| February 11 |
Order screen materials for multitouch surface. |
| February 10 |
Visualizations to be included in Twin Cities exhibit. |
| February 7 |
Get 3D head tracking working with generic laptop webcam. |
| February 6 |
Man vs. Wild parody released. |
| February 3 |
First stab at scratch input graffiti alphabet. Not bad. |
| January 26 |
Begin clustering 700k Amazon books. |
| January 25 |
Internet map to appear in Aperture Magazine. |
| January 25 |
Story on visualizations to appear in (Canadian) National Post. |
| January
24 |
Bible visualizations
to be featured in De:bug magazine. |
| January
24 |
Mo' board wall done.
BibleViz project on BoingBoing, others. |
| January
23 |
Probabilistic Input and
Scratch Write projects begin. |
| January
21 |
Invited to write chapter
for book on Social Interactive TV. |
| January
20 |
Film Man vs. Wild parody.
Brian cooks for new PhD's dinner. |
| January
19 |
Go skiing. |
| January
17 |
Mother of motherboard
wall construction begins. |
| January
16 |
Visualizing the Bible
project posted. |
| January
13 |
Head back to Pittsburgh
for start of semester. |
| January
12 |
House parody debut party.
Catch up with old friends. |
| January
5 |
Film House MD parody. |
| January
3 |
Slinging.org overhaul.
Now using CMS. |
| January
1 |
Celebrate in deserted
Mexico City Airport. Fly home. |
2007
| December 31 |
Explore Campeche. Fly from Mérida to Mexico
City. |
| December 30 |
Drive to Campeche. Uxmal and Kabah on route. |
| December 29 |
Wake to new flat tire. Visit Cuzama cenotes. Lose
glasses. |
| December 28 |
Drive to Mérida. Explore Valladolid and Chichen
Itza. |
| December 27 |
Puerto Moreles. Clusterball Mentioned on O'Reilly
Radar. |
| December 26 |
Visit Tulum and Coba. Suffer two flat tires. |
| December 25 |
Unwind on the beaches of Isla Mujeres. Car used as
taxi. |
| December 24 |
Arrive Cancún. Unpack and relax. |
| December 23 |
Depart NYC for Mexico. Delayed. Spend night in Mexico
City. |
| December 20 |
Two papers submitted to Graphics Interface 2008. |
| December 16 |
Semester concludes. Drive home for break. |
| December 10 |
Lean and Zoom accepted to CHI 2008. |
| December 10 |
Pediluma accepted to CHI workshop on ambient persuasion. |
| December 7 |
HCII holiday party. |
| December 5 |
Aphrodisias documentary airs on the History Channel. |
| December 5 |
O Boticário to use Internet maps for perfume
packaging... |
| November 30 |
Internet map to be included in bioinformatics textbook. |
| November 29 |
Part two of Progressive Image Loading study begins. |
| November 28 |
Royal Society Viz data to be included in Atlas of
Science. |
| November 27 |
Internet map to be shown during Sao Paulo Fashion
Week. |
| November 27 |
Pediluma appears to significantly increase physical
activity! |
| November 20 |
Home for Thanksgiving. |
| November 19 |
Scott approves mother of motherboards wall. |
| November 17 |
Two-week-long Pediluma study concludes. |
| November 16 |
Internet map to be included in NSF report. Meet Zhiquan. |
| November 13 |
Helping to develop concept for web-themed NYC exhibit. |
| November 12 |
CHI reviews. First CMU patent disclosure. |
| November 11 |
Solder up 11 Pedilumas for Monday deployment. |
| November 9 |
Internet map to be included in book on digital explosion. |
| November 8 |
Quality of Life Technology Summit; poster session. |
| November 7 |
Pediluma platform now using PICAXE chips. |
| November 6 |
Working with Christoph Römhild on Bible visualizations. |
| November 5 |
Two-week-long Pediluma study kicks off. |
| November 3 |
Motherboard project for lab space. |
| November 2 |
NSF GRFP wrapped up and submitted. Whew. |
| November 1 |
Pediluma group project submitted to CHI workshop. |
| October 27 |
Party two; stick figures robust, but power hungry. |
| October 26 |
Stick figures assembled. Costume party numero uno. |
| October 23 |
Car fixed. Visit Freeride - Get new bicycle. |
| October 21 |
Shadyside scavenger hunt. 24 parody released. |
| October 20 |
Construction Junction and tissue paper hunt. Lamp done. |
| October 19 |
Motherboards on route. Gallery crawl. Stick figure
idea. |
| October 18 |
Pediluma: tricks and swaps lead to 65% power reduction. |
| October 15 |
Open Source Art investigation kicks off. |
| October 12 |
Bicycle stolen. |
| October 11 |
Interesting Internet Map modifications trickling in. |
| October 10 |
Head back to Pittsburgh. Thoroughly exhausted. |
| October 9 |
Give progress bars talk - well received. |
| October 8 |
UIST Conference begins. |
| October 7 |
Internet Map project in Digg top 10. Fly to Newport,
RI. |
| October 6 |
Volunteers helping to mirror terabytes of outgoing
data |
| October 5 |
Internet Map, aka "The Chris Harrison Project"
slashdotted. |
| October 3 |
Fencing Duel with Walker. Totally pwned. |
| September 30 |
ChrisHarrison.net sports new look. Chandelier picked
up. |
| September 28 |
Pediluma prototype. SSA food, Luau, Phipps with Aubrey. |
| September 27 |
National Geographic Channel documentary in contact. |
| September 26 |
Pediluma presentation with Aubrey and Brian. |
| September 25 |
Family trip to Merida, Mexico booked. |
| September 24 |
Double scheduled meeting time with Scott. |
| September 23 |
New PhD's dinner party. Pediluma born. |
| September 22 |
Overhaul of website design begun. |
| September 21 |
25th anniversary of emoticon at CMU. Book UIST trip. |
| September 19 |
Three CHI submissions. Randy Pausch's last lecture. |
| September 16 |
AJA Abstract on Extramural Land Division at Aphrodisias. |
| September 12 |
HCI P&T proposal: Energy-savvy GUIs. |
| September 10 |
Whack gestures study off to a bang; CHI project #3. |
| September 8 |
Content-aware bilinear interlacing image loading done. |
| September 6 |
Scott Hudson is my PhD advisor. |
| September 4 |
ClusterBall on display at Texas State University. |
| September 3 |
Royal Society Viz to appear in Places & Spaces exhibit. |
| September 2 |
First look at data from progressive image loading study. |
| September 1 |
Back at home for a week. |
| August 31 |
History Channel's Mummy Forensics producer in contact. |
| August 27 |
Lab ambient display project begins. |
| August 22 |
ClusterBall at University of Auckland, NZ. |
| August 20 |
Human-centric image transmission project kicks off. |
| August 17 |
CollaboraTV gearing up for CHI submission. |
| August 14 |
Get bed. Lean and Zoom targeted for CHI. |
| August 12 |
Move to Pittsburgh. |
| August 11 |
Paintball with Hesh, Olfat, Maha, Rob and Mum. |
| August 4 |
Internet Map to appear in New Internationalist's Diary
'09. |
| August 7 |
Win UIST Cover Contest. |
| August 4 |
Finish Wikipedia popular pages visualization. Blue Marble. |
| August 2 |
Begin scraping all Wikipedia content for page links. |
| July 31 |
Submit camera ready UIST paper. Code up Lean & Zoom. |
| July 28 |
Filming day two; Bauer fighting on top of moving car. |
| July 27 |
Start filming 24 parody; Bauer attacks enemy stronghold. |
| July 26 |
Internet connectivity map viz completed. |
| July 23 |
3,941 people visit Slinging.org today. Highest ever. |
| July 23 |
Seven patents submitted for AT&T Labs review. |
| July 21 |
Scope out a dozen houses in Pittsburgh. Clint to be
roomy. |
| July 18 |
Lunch with Brewer, chat with Korth, dinner with Benson. |
| July 12 |
Progress Bar paper officially accepted to UIST 2007. |
| July 11 |
Gear up for move to CMU, Pittsburgh. |
| July 9 |
Fly home. Seven weeks of travel concludes. |
| July 8 |
Depart Jordan. Day in Istanbul: City walls, Pigeon Market. |
| July 7 |
Visit Jerash - well preserved Greco-Roman city. |
| July 6 |
Hit four desert castles. Return to Amman. |
| July 5 |
Dead Sea and the surprisingly awesome Wadi Mujib. |
| July 4 |
Hitchhike to Ma'an. Karak's crusader castle and Madaba. |
| July 3 |
Wadi Rum. Neo-Bedouin tour around desert; sleep outside. |
| July 2 |
Eleven hours exploring Petra. Coolest site ever. |
| July 1 |
Zip around Amman, burn rubber south to Petra. |
| June 30 |
Fly to Amman, Jordan. |
| June 29 |
Final day at Aphrodisias. Bus to Izmir, then fly to
Istanbul. |
| June 23 |
Scramble around big cave in our valley. |
| June 15 |
Explore Antalya and Termessos. |
| June 14 |
Visit Aspendos and Perge. See Fire of Anatolia. |
| June 13 |
Two-day break. Drive to Side. |
| June 10 |
Bushwhack in search of new aqueduct portions. |
| June 9 |
Descend aqueduct shaft - not much to see. |
| June 8 |
Build 20ft rope ladder for aqueduct shaft decent. |
| June 7 |
Aphrodisias Party. No guns, just dancing. |
| June 6 |
Turkish wedding - guns and dancing galore. |
| June 4 |
Visit Sardis. Tires blowout on way home. |
| June 2 |
Start investigating large aqueduct system. |
| May 27 |
Bus it to Aphrodisias. Research begins! |
| May 26 |
Depart Amsterdam, arrive Turkey. Night in Izmir. |
| May 24 |
EuroITV 2007 Conference begins. |
| May 23 |
Social Interactive TV workshop. |
| May 22 |
Depart for EuroITV, Turkey and Jordan. |
| May 14 |
Finish UIST cover contest entries. |
| May 13 |
Dan back from school, graduated, and preparing for IBM. |
| May 12 |
Dinner with Flip. IMAX with Hesh and gang. |
| May 9 |
Heavily optimized C layout code 30 times faster than
JVM! |
| May 7 |
Turkish research permit approved and returned. |
| May 6 |
New York City Five Boro Bike Tour; 42 miles. |
| May 5 |
Multiple submissions to NSF SEVC. |
| May 4 |
Book Amsterdam hostel. |
| April 30 |
Book summer flights; Istanbul via Amsterdam. |
| April 29 |
ClusterBall v2 - multiple rings. |
| April 27 |
Successfully layout graph of internet backbone. |
| April 24 |
Visit Google. Bump into David Blackman, EB. |
| April 20 |
Investigating lattice-based spatial clustering algorithm. |
| April 19 |
ClusterBall included in Visual Complexity gallery. |
| April 18 |
ClusterBall project completed. |
| April 14 |
Finalize global internet trends analysis. |
| April 11 |
Move out of NYC apartment. Last official day at AT&T
Labs. |
| April 6 |
Coding CollaboraTV 2.0 hardcore. |
| April 5 |
Decline remaining schools, accept CMU grad school offer. |
| April 3 |
Sweet new EPG navigation and visualization completed. |
| April 2 |
Get three years worth of Alexa.com's global 500 traffic
data. |
| April 1 |
First round of mocks for Genie (hibiscus tea beverage) |
| March 30 |
Three Tech Notes submitted to UIST. |
| March 30 |
Royal Society contacts me regarding visualization project. |
| March 29 |
Stacey finishes Kronosphere demo video. |
| March 28 |
Bob Bell helps with statistics for progress bar paper. |
| March 23 |
Royal Society Viz. included in PingMag Magazine. |
| March 22 |
Visit CMU. Flight canceled. LGA to Newark extravaganza. |
| March 17 |
First draft of Kronosphere and EPG papers for UIST. |
| March 14 |
Prepare test application for non-linear progress bar
study. |
| March 13 |
Visit Georgia Tech. |
| March 9 |
Visit Stanford. |
| March 5 |
EuroITV WIP paper accepted. |
| March 3 |
charrison.net reaches 1/40th of 1% of internet population! |
| March 3 |
CityTacks limited release. |
| March 2 |
SearchClock visualization slashdotted! |
| March 1 |
EuroITV workshop paper accepted. |
| February 28 |
Visit MIT Media Lab. Stay with Meng. |
| February 26 |
AT&T Labs preparing virtual audience patents. |
| February 24 |
Participate in NYC pillow fight. |
| February 23 |
CollaboraTV v2 started. New interest patents set to
file. |
| February 22 |
Initial results from color perception study. |
| February 18 |
New slinging.org moderators. Alias spoof released. |
| February 17 |
Hesh, Maha, and Yo Mama's House. |
| February 16 |
Color perception study begins. |
| February 15 |
EuroITV WIP paper submitted. |
| February 10 |
CityTacks New York City Beta. |
| February 7 |
EuroITV workshop proposal submitted. |
| February 3 |
Filming Alias spoof round two. |
| February 2 |
Start writing CollaboraTV paper. |
| February 1 |
Royal Society visualization featured on infosthetics.com. |
| January 31 |
Jimbo Wales talk about democratizing search. |
| January 27 |
Start filming Alias spoof. |
| January 24 |
The Turnarounds perform. |
| January 23 |
Start reviewing study data. Numerous interesting trends. |
| January 22 |
Last day of trials. 35 participants in total. |
| January 19 |
Car fixed up, inspection passed. |
| January 18 |
Sweeping updates to Slinging.org. |
| January 15 |
All usability study spots taken - word of mouth. |
| January 12 |
First day of back-to-back usability trials; 5 people
a day. |
| January 5 |
First day back at AT&T Labs. |
| January 4 |
Jeff drives up my "new" (his old) VW Golf. |
| January 1 |
Return Home. Unpack and unwind. Hello 2007. |
2006
| December 31 |
Full day in Santiago. Celebrate New Year in airport. |
| December 30 |
Explore Chillán's Saturday market. Eat a Longaniza. |
| December 29 |
From Temuco to Chillán. Visit famous murals. |
| December 28 |
Temuco's bustling market. Soak up culture. Bar hop. |
| December 27 |
White water rafting. |
| December 26 |
Eat, wander, fix glasses, and head northward to Pucon. |
| December 25 |
Explore Castro and Achao. Quiet. Head to Puerto Varas. |
| December 24 |
Fly to Puerto Montt, bus/ferry to Castro, Chiloé. |
| December 23 |
Explore Punta Arenas. Curious cemetery. |
| December 22 |
Finish spectacular 50-mile 'W' trek. |
| December 18 |
First day of trek through Torres del Paine National
Park. |
| December 17 |
Fly to Punta Arenas, bus to Puerto Natales. Prepare... |
| December 16 |
Explore Santiago. Devour tastiest chicken ever. |
| December 15 |
Depart for Santiago, Chile. |
| December 13 |
First CollaboraTV usability trials. |
| December 10 |
Christmas dinner party. |
| December 9 |
Hesh's Wii Party. Submit grad school applications. |
| December 1 |
Royal Society Archive visualization. |
| November 30 |
CollaboraTV presented at AT&T Labs. |
| November 29 |
Slinging.org stats: 850+ daily visitors (30k hits). |
| November 28 |
CollaboraTV features locked for usability study. |
| November 27 |
Upgrade Slinging.org forum software. |
| November 26 |
Catch up with Cyriak. |
| November 23 |
Go home for Thanksgiving. |
| November 22 |
Commit to 2007 Aphrodisias, Turkey, field season. |
| November 20 |
Visit Georgia Tech. |
| November 17 |
Book tickets to Chile. Patagonia here I come. |
| November 16 |
Submit four automobile interface patents disclosures. |
| November 15 |
AT&T Labs decides to file both advertising patents. |
| November 13 |
Non-linear progress bars and driver fatigue detection. |
| November 10 |
Three new content/popularity/ratings visualizations. |
| November 9 |
Order sweet new mountain bike. Thanks Brian and Larry! |
| November 8 |
Polishing CollaboraTV interface for usability study. |
| November 5 |
OpenMosaic v1 complete. Testing among friends. |
| November 2 |
Visit Dan Fitz at Geneseo. |
| November 1 |
Depart the 'Burgh for Erie, PA. Dead car sells on eBay. |
| October 31 |
Visit CMU HCII. Explore Pittsburgh. Halloween. |
| October 30 |
Visit University of Maryland HCIL. |
| October 22 |
Incorrectly installed timing belt causes car engine
to blow. |
| October 20 |
First visualization of 68,000 wikipedia links. |
| October 19 |
Start crunching numbers for netflix recommendation contest. |
| October 18 |
Virtual audience feature added to CollaboraTV. |
| October 17 |
Pick top six graduate schools. |
| October 13 |
Car broken into, bike stolen. |
| October 11 |
Go to replace tire, mechanics drive SUV into my car. |
| October 10 |
Replace flat tire on highway 78 shoulder. |
| October 10 |
Submit two advertising related patent disclosures. |
| October 4 |
Stacey hosts Lost season 3 premier meetup. |
| October 1 |
Chain Stretcher mountain bike race. |
| September 22 |
Ultra NY concert in Central Park: Moby, Digweed. |
| September 20 |
First visualizations of Wikipedia using my package. |
| September 19 |
Build spring-based visualization package. |
| September 16 |
First visualizations of Wikipedia using graphviz. |
| September 12 |
Westchester Ghetto music video released. |
| August 28 |
First day at AT&T Labs. |
| August 20 |
Depart Russia. Head home. Three months of traveling
over. |
| August 18 |
Visit museums and churches. Fly back to St. Petersburg. |
| August 17 |
Arrive Moscow morning. Red Square, Kremlin and more. |
| August 16 |
Stroll along Nevsky, enjoy jazz club, night train to
Moscow. |
| August 15 |
Return from Lake Chudskoye. |
| August 14 |
Mushroom picking in northern taiga, night fishing. |
| August 11 |
Traditional Russian banya; birch branches included. |
| August 9 |
Travel by car to Raskopel cabin, on shore of Lake Chudskoye. |
| August 8 |
Explore St. Petersburg on foot. |
| August 7 |
Visit isolated Valaam Monastery. |
| August 6 |
Treated to over-night boat excursion up Neva River. |
| August 5 |
St. Isaac's Cathedral, Yusupov Royal Palace. |
| August 4 |
Boat to Petergof. |
| August 3 |
Depart Istanbul for St. Petersburg. |
| August 1 |
Plane to Istanbul via Athens. Hit Grand Bazaar for gifts. |
| July 29 |
Return to Larnaka. |
| July 28 |
Cross UN buffer zone into Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus. |
| July 27 |
Visit Kourion. Bus to Nicosia, the last divided capital
in the world. |
| July 26 |
Quick jaunt to Troodos Mountains for glimpse of Mt.
Olympus. |
| July 25 |
Pack away tent and head to Lemesos. |
| July 23 |
Ride rented moped all over Akamas Peninsula. |
| July 21 |
Buy camping gear in Paphos, depart for Polis. Begin
camping. |
| July 20 |
Bus to Paphos on route to Polis. Hotels scarce again. |
| July 19 |
Agia Napa; not impressed and hotels scarce. |
| July 17 |
Night in Larnaka. Cook our own meal for the first time
in months. |
| July 17 |
Situation unpredictable, decide to leave. Bus to Tele
Aviv airport. |
| July 16 |
A numbing day at the holocaust museum. |
| July 15 |
Explore old city, walk the Via Dolorosa. |
| July 14 |
Northward, past Dead Sea, through West Bank to Jerusalem. |
| July 14 |
Hezbollah hits Haifa. Israel pounds Beirut. War intensifying. |
| July 13 |
Hike down Mt. Sinai. Catch bus to Israeli border. Eilat. |
| July 12 |
Bus to Mt. Sinai. Hike up at night for sunrise. |
| July 11 |
Camel trek to Blue Hole. Snorkel, Bedouin lunch. |
| July 11 |
Sling paper published in the Bulletin of Primitive Technology. |
| July 10 |
Take bus to Dahab. |
| July 9 |
Snorkel reefs at Ras Mohammad National Park. |
| July 8 |
Cross Red Sea by ferry to Sinai Peninsula. |
| July 7 |
Bus to Hurghada. |
| July 6 |
Whirlwind tour of six Luxor sites. Unbelievable! |
| July 5 |
Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut, felluca up
Nile. |
| July 4 |
Arrive Luxor. Visit central Luxor Temple, Mummy Museum. |
| July 3 |
Visit Old Cairo. Catch overnight train to Luxor. |
| July 2 |
Explore the citadel and huge City Stars mall. |
| July 1 |
Saqqara, Pyramids at Giza, Memphis. |
| June 30 |
Egyptian Museum. Wander the alleys of Khan-al-kalili. |
| June 29 |
Land in Cairo, meet Hesham. |
| June 28 |
Depart Aphrodisias. One night in Istanbul. |
| June 27 |
Hard work to wrap up work. Constant brownouts hamper
work. |
| June 26 |
Visit Pamukkale, Heraopolis, hot spring. |
| June 18 |
Find enormous aqueduct tunnel and bridge. |
| June 10 |
Sick. Recuperate in Karaçasu hospital. |
| June 8 |
Both IBM patents filed with USPTO. |
| June 5 |
First visit to Karaçasu market day. |
| May 22 |
Hike to top of Mt. Babada, a 35Km trek. |
| May 20 |
Scramble around large necropolis. Crawl down cave spring |
| May 17 |
GRE Scores are in. Very pleased. |
| May 17 |
First day in Aphrodisias. |
| May 15 |
Explore Ancient Efesus. Quick stop at Virgin Mary's
house. |
| May 14 |
Depart for Selçuk. See the Basilica of St. John. |
| May 13 |
Blue Mosque, Aya Sophia, Spice Market. Leave for Izmir. |
| May 12 |
Topkapi Palace, Grand Bazaar. |
| May 11 |
Arrive Istanbul. |
| May 9 |
Give compilers demo lecture. |
| May 8 |
Blob code finished. Physical controls built and tested. |
| April 26 |
Prepare slashdot logos for competition. |
| April 7 |
Search-by-sketch version one complete. |
| April 6 |
NewsGlobe version 1.0 complete. Record Westchester rap. |
| April 5 |
Meet Peter Bergen, who met Osama bin Laden. |
| April 4 |
My picture appears on gamasutra.com |
| April 4 |
Two new patents in the work via IBM Research! Sweet! |
| April 4 |
Integrate Timeline with Jeff's text analytics package. |
| April 3 |
Visit Harrison family's new house. |
| April 2 |
Take GRE CS. Head home to help family pack truck. |
| March 27 |
Plan summer itinerary. Ramesh Raskar lecture. |
| March 26 |
Return to New York. Catch up on work! |
| March 24 |
Bahamas. Storm causes early departure. |
| March 22 |
Explore charming San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| March 21 |
Relax on St. Maarten's Orient Beach. |
| March 20 |
Hike Tortola and chill on beach. Virgin Gorda is spectacular! |
| March 19 |
Arrive in St. Thomas. Snorkel - reef, fish, shipwreck. |
| March 16 |
Depart New York. Cruise to Caribbean. |
| March 15 |
Assisted mouse demo ready for testers & data collection. |
| March 4 to 5 |
24-hour cell-phone game programming competition. |
| March 3 |
Ben visits for the weekend. |
| February 27 |
Ted Selker Lecture. |
| February 25 |
Film "Wrench" - Saw parody. |
| February 23 |
Timeline version one complete. Radiometer arrives. |
| February 18 |
Escape for ski weekend in Catskills with Dan Fitz. |
| February 13 |
Find nice 3-arc second (90m interval) elevation models. |
| February 5 |
Blueman group. Very cool. |
| February 3 |
Find 30-arc second elevation models for Turkey. |
| February 2 |
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart taping. Thanks Brewers! |
| February 1 |
Henry the Chinchilla joins the family. |
| January 29 |
Visit Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown. |
| January 23 |
US Patent and Trademark Office replies to pat. application. |
| January 20 |
Setup Slinging.org wiki. |
| January 14 |
Overnight train back to Venice. Fly home. |
| January 6 to 13 |
Meet Stacey's family. Ski the Swiss Alps! |
| January 5 |
Depart by train to Gstaad, Switzerland. |
| January 4 |
Full day in Venice. Lunch in front of San Marco Cathedral. |
| January 3 |
Wake up in Siena. More kebabs. Return to Venice. |
| January 2 |
Tour Orvieto's caves and cathedral. Eat wild boar &
kebab. |
| January 1 |
2006! Northward! Hill town of Orvieto; Jazz festival. |
2005
| December 31 |
Tour Pompeii. Return to Priano for New Year's bash. |
| December 30 |
Mt Vesuvius. Further south to Priano, Amalfi Coast;
Bingo. |
| December 29 |
Get lost in Naples traffic. Decide to stay the night. |
| December 28 |
Hike Abruzzo Nat. Park. Second night in Pescasseroli. |
| December 27 |
Explore Porto Santo Stefano. Get lost in Rome Traffic. |
| December 26 |
Day in Pisa. Lunch by leaning tower. Head south. |
| December 25 |
Happy X-mas. Land in Venice. Pickup car. Drive to Pisa. |
| December 24 |
Depart for Italy. |
| December 22 |
Complete compiler in two-day coding marathon. |
| December 20 |
Finish VirtuaRacer. Multimedia presentation day. |
| December 17 |
Meet Ms. Tschang from NetHope. Go to Guggenheim. |
| December 16 |
Scrap "Big Projection" idea. VirtuaRacer instead. |
| December 14 |
Attend VSO presentation in NYC. |
| December 9 |
Newssohot T-shirts arrive. |
| December 7 |
Distributed computing ants competition. |
| December 6 |
Final version of distributed computing ants code. |
| December 3 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Yeomen of the Guard" Opera. |
| December 2 |
Google final round interviews. Fajitas Party! |
| December 1 |
Buy my first independent christmas tree. |
| November 29 |
Richard Stallman talk at Cooper Union. |
| November 24 |
Thanksgiving with Stacey's family. |
| November 20 |
ACM Regional ICPC. Top NYU Team; 13th overall. |
| November 16 |
Visit Google's NYC Office. Slam dunk tech interview. |
| November 11 |
Go to ABC HQ, meet with head of ABC News. |
| November 7 |
Come up with O(n) collision-resolution ethernet algorithm. |
| October 31 |
Dress up for Halloween. Carve Pumpkin. |
| October 27 |
Meet Professor Childress to discuss sling projectiles. |
| October 25 |
Slinging.org t-shirts arrive. |
| October 23 |
Paintball. Head home. |
| October 21 |
Amish Country. Hershey Park in the Dark. |
| October 20 |
Credit card used fraudulently. Depart for weekend in
PA. |
| October 15 |
Surprise party for parents! Three months in the planning. |
| October 13 |
MTV News. Ask Bill Gates a question! |
| October 11 |
New York City Technologists meetup. |
| October 9 |
In-the-city BBQ canceled. |
| October 6 |
First Shasha lunch at Apple restaurant. |
| October 5 |
Idea session with Shasha. |
| October 2 |
Across the Narrows Concert. Beck, Belle and Sebastian. |
| September 30 |
Start salsa classes. |
| September 23 |
Housewarming party! |
| September 23 |
Join Aphrodisias archaeological project. |
| September 15 |
Fly to Rochester, MN. Meet Hypervisor, BlueGene teams. |
| September 6 |
Classes start; three days a week. |
| September 5 |
Move in with Stacey. |
| September 3 |
Fly home to New York. |
| September 2 |
Fly back to London. Roll of tape confiscated! |
| September 1 |
Relax in Malaga. Go shopping. |
| August 31 |
Last day in Morocco. Ferry to Spain, and bus to Malaga. |
| August 30 |
Decide to skip Fes, push on back to Tangier. |
| August 29 |
Day on the beach to recoup. More medicine for Stacey. |
| August 28 |
Load up on medicine. Depart for Casablanca by train. |
| August 27 |
Dinner in Djemma el Fna. |
| August 27 |
Drive to Ourzazate, Aït Benhaddou, High Atlas Mountains. |
| August 26 |
Book tour. Get guide around medina. Stacey sick. |
| August 25 |
Very cool medina and Kasbah! Overnight train to Marrakech. |
| August 24 |
Bus to Algeciras. Ferry to Tangier, Morocco. |
| August 23 |
Fly to Paris, then Malaga, Spain. |
| August 22 |
Fly to LA, then London. Meet Stacey in UK. |
| August 19 |
Final day of EB. Submit 9th and final patent disclosure. |
| August 14 |
Return to San Jose. Final week at Almaden... |
| August 13 |
Meng stays the weekend. Tour NYC. |
| August 11 |
Extreme Blue Expo. Enki rocks! Talk of spin-off? |
| August 9 |
Go to Westford to meet Lotus Execs. Drive to New York. |
| August 8 |
Visit CUE group at IBM Cambridge. Attend Intern Seminar. |
| August 6 & 7 |
Explore Boston. Sleep at Meng's frat house. |
| August 5 |
Fly to Boston. |
| July 31 |
Return to San Jose. |
| July 30 |
Visit Stacey in NY. Kayak on Hudson. |
| July 27 |
Almaden fun day. Google open house; Orkut, Serge. |
| July 25 |
Submit fifth patent idea to IBM for review. |
| July 23 |
EB Paintball excursion. 4:1 kill ratio. |
| July 21 |
Demo Enki to Lotus Execs. Thumbs up. |
| July 13 |
Submit third patent idea to IBM for review. |
| July 11 |
Symposium at Almaden. Mingle with the big wigs. |
| July 10 |
Stacey departs. |
| July 9 |
Hike among the redwoods. Dinner on beach. Propose? |
| July 8 |
Head north to Redwood forests. Dinner by river. Camp. |
| July 7 |
Meet Congressman Smith (R-TX). Visit Don Eigler's lab. |
| July 5 |
Cruise up scenic route 1. Go back to work. |
| July 4 |
Pedal to the metal through desert. Fireworks over Pacific. |
| July 3 |
Drive to Grand Canyon and camp the night. Spicy chicken. |
| July 2 |
Fly to Las Vegas. Visit Hoover Dam, Lake Mead; Go gambling! |
| July 1 |
Stacey arrives in sunny California. |
| June 29 |
Submit finalized sling paper. |
| June 18 |
Hike Half Dome, Yosemite. Elv 8,836 ft. |
| June 10 |
Happy Birthday Stacey! |
| June 4 |
Snoop around Google headquarters. |
| June 3 |
Extreme week at Extreme Blue ends. |
| May 31 |
First Day of work at IBM. |
| May 28 |
Leave for San Jose. |
| May 27 |
Plan end of summer trip; Spain and Morocco with Stacey. |
| May 24 |
Frantically catch up on work. |
| May 23 |
Fly home! Scabies! |
| May 22 |
Catch 10am bus back to Quito. Visit Mitad del Mundo. |
| May 21 |
Whitewater rafting. Swing jump off a bridge. Intense
foosball. |
| May 20 |
Repel down waterfalls. ATV down route of waterfalls. |
| May 19 |
Bus to Guamote for market. Bus to Baños in afternoon. |
| May 18 |
Sit on roof of train up the Devil's Nose, and onto Riobamba. |
| May 17 |
Day trip to Cajas National Park. Bus to Alusi at night. |
| May 16 |
Fly to Cuenca. Catch 9am bus to Ingapica, Incan ruins. |
| May 15 |
Day trip to Cotopaxi. Climb to glacier tip. Elevation
15,748 ft. |
| May 14 |
Visit Otavalo for renowned Saturday market. Mugged at
night. |
| May 13 |
Explore Quito. Pants get shredded by pickpockets on
trolly. |
| May 12 |
Depart Newark for Bogota, then on to Quito, Ecuador. |
| May 11 |
Mountain bike with Stacey, meet Dan for ice cream. |
| May 10 |
National Museum of TZ website done, minus collections. |
| May 9 |
Find "poster" at 3am, Chinatown. Meet robot. Aegir demo
day. |
| May 5 |
Fencing team dinner. |
| May 4 |
Ceramics final project done; all but glaze. |
| May 3 |
Deans awards ceremony; CS Department award. |
| May 2 |
Aegir demo day; client segfaults-a-plenty. |
| May 1 |
Server having stability issues, but nicely scales to
200 clients. |
| April 30 |
Scout whitewater rafting trip. |
| April 27 |
Scholar-athlete awards. |
| April 21 |
Deans leadership roundtable. Meet Gene for dinner. |
| April 20 |
Kristina breakup. Sling paper half done. |
| April 19 |
Crank away on Aegir client code with Gabe; Good progress. |
| April 19 |
Help author Shannon Hale with sling-related text in
her book. |
| April 18 |
Book Los Angeles to London to New York flight. |
| April 17 |
Book Ecuador flight. Riots start in Ecuador. |
| April 15 |
Notify MCI of IBM internship. |
| April 10 |
Slinging.org surpasses 100k visitors since April 04 |
| April 9 |
OTAS project dies, or so it seems. |
| April 7 |
Depart Shanghai. Looking forward to fresh air. |
| April 6 |
29th Annual ICPC competition. |
| April 5 |
Buy lots of "antiques" in market. |
| April 2 |
Aborted 1st landing. Explore Shanghai. |
| April 1 |
Leave for ACM ICPC World Finals, Shanghai. |
| March 31 |
Aegir Server v0.5 complete. Chat, movement, and more. |
| March 31 |
Morgan Stanley quiz night. |
| March 29 |
Accept IBM Extreme Blue internship offer. |
| March 28 |
Google technical interview very cool; solve all problems. |
| March 26 |
Dinner with Amy K. |
| March 26 |
Second Slinging.org chat session. |
| March 23 |
Aegir Server v0.1 goes live on i5; scalability looking
good. |
| March 22 |
Internship offers rolling in... |
| March 20 |
Final TZ museum design done; templates in progress. |
| March 17 |
Finally better! First real meal in 6 days! Lost about
8 lbs. |
| March 15 |
Visit intelligent doctor. Diagnosis: Quinsy |
| March 12 |
Visit Kristina's house in Massachusetts |
| March 11 |
Week of *$%!& throat begins |
| March 10 |
First complete outline for sling/medieval I.S. developed. |
| March 9 |
Morgan Stanley and Accenture tech assessments go well. |
| March 8 |
Morgan Stanley dinner at Otto Enoteca. |
| March 3 |
IBM technical interview goes well, despite high fever. |
| February 26 |
Ski Belleayre Mountain with dorm. Roommates B-day. |
| February 23 |
Talk with Jane by phone. Catch up. |
| February 16 |
Slinging.org hosts first chat; 7 people. |
| February 4 |
Leave for weekend-long fencing trip, Boston. |
| February 3 |
Morgan Stanley dinner at Park Avalon. |
| January 23 |
Happy birthday Kristina! |
| January 29 |
iMac arrives smashed. Wrangle with FedEx begins. |
| January 28 |
Slinging.org hosting upgraded to 15Gb a month. |
| January 27 |
Slinging.org chewing through 400 megs a day. |
| January 26 |
CS Games and NYU "Games" |
| January 25 |
Slinging.org transferred to new server. Revisions go
live. |
| January 22 |
Blizzard suspends account without reason. Draws wrath. |
| January 21 |
iMac SE sells for $450. |
| January 20 |
Hesh's DSL saturated. Buy proper hosting for Slinging.org. |
| January 20 |
Enter the ranks of cell phone users. |
| January 11 |
Join Open Tsunami Alert System programming effort. |
| January 8 |
Arrive home. Ben Eagle Scout Ceremony. |
| January 6 |
Snorkel Molokini. |
| January 4 |
10.2 mile journey back with pack and 3/4 liter of water. |
| January 3 |
Hike across crater bottom. Sand Storms. Camp inside. |
| January 2 |
Camp on slopes of Haleakala Crater. 100 mph winds. |
2004
| December 31 |
Celebrate 2005 New Year in Hana, Maui. Hungry. |
| December 30 |
Return from P.R. and leave for Hawaii with Hesh. |
| December 28 |
Visit El Yunque rainforest, National Park. |
| December 24 |
Leave for Puerto Rico. |
| December 21 |
Visit Guggenheim Aztec exhibit. Semester over. |
| December 9 |
Win DURF Grant to fund National Museum of TZ site. |
| December 2 |
Go to the MET. |
| November 25 |
A day off finally!! Work all day to catch up. |
| November 24 |
Unix Tools spring 05 grader. |
| November 23 |
New iBook arrives, very sweet. |
| November 21 |
Start interactive graphics final project. |
| November 20 |
Buy new iBook for $994! |
| November 20 |
Powerbook sells on eBay for $961! |
| November 19 |
MECCA mux diversity app polished to perfection. |
| November 17 |
Buried in more work than I can handle. |
| November 16 |
GNYR ICPC, 12th out of 66 teams, grad & undergrad. |
| November 5 |
Slinging.org's 10,000th forum post. |
| November 3 |
SBC SDL fade graphics tester complete. |
| November 2 |
First time voting. Another 4 years of Bush… |
| October 29 |
First day of real programming at MCI. |
| October 22 |
Ambient Information SBC project started. |
| October 8 |
Swap computers; G5 unleashed! |
| October 6 |
Orion Lander completed for Interactive Graphics class. |
| October 4 |
Dinner with Kerry; met on Amsterdam to NY flight. |
| October 3 |
Mountain bike race: 33rd out of 61 "beginners". |
| September 28 |
Undergraduate grant submitted. |
| September 23 |
Squash club starts regular meetings. |
| September 16 |
Heading up the ACM competition with Chris Q. |
| September 14 |
Jane and I go our separate ways. |
| September 13 |
Project Goliath preface finally complete. |
| September 12 |
"Week of Neglect" ends, or so I think... |
| September 10 |
First day at MCI WorldCom. |
| September 9 |
Slinging.org: 2.6 million hits, 55k visitors. |
| September 7 |
Back to school. Grader and eTutor for Comp. Archi. |
| September 1 |
Trek 6500 on route. IROutlook domains registered. |
| August 29 |
Kes, a Jack Russell Terrier puppy, joins the family. |
| August 28 |
Visit Jane. Discuss IROutlook, develop idea. |
| August 26 |
Working on 6 simultaneous websites. Feel the pressure. |
| August 24 |
Home. |
| August 23 |
Quickly revisit Niagara. Off to Pennsylvania. |
| August 22 |
Finish Toronto, scoot down to Buffalo and Niagara Falls. |
| August 21 |
Depart Ottawa; explore Toronto. |
| August 20 |
Finish Montreal. Stop by Trois Riviere on route to Ottawa. |
| August 19 |
Finish Quebec, then off to Montreal. |
| August 18 |
Visit Montpelier, Sherbrook, Québec City. |
| August 17 |
Depart on Canadian Road Trip. First stop Montpelier,
VT. |
| August 16 |
Jane arrives. |
| August 11 |
Slinging.org receives 306 visitors today. Highest yet. |
| August 10 |
Battery Park to Bear Mountain Bridge by bike; 56 miles. |
| August 2 |
Project Goliath. Slinging.org gears up for ambition
project. |
| July 31 |
Slinging.org forum thriving. July: 7k visitors, 48k
total. |
| July 28 |
Return home. Sad to be back. |
| July 24 |
Return to Dar. Miss the field already. |
| July 23 |
Invited to morani to elder Maasai party. |
| July 11 |
Arusha trip. Drop people off, restock on supplies. |
| June 23 |
Vehicles packed; Depart for Laetoli. |
| June 19 |
Start developing Tanzania National Museum's website. |
| June 12 |
Depart for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
| June 7 |
Bike performs admirably on trails. |
| June 3 |
My eBay Trek 6000 bike arrives; assembled and ridden. |
| June 2 |
Visit MCI, very impressed, strong part-time job possibility. |
| May 31 |
Slinging.org: 5100 posts, 37k visitors, 1.7 mil hits. |
| May 20 |
Assisting with second Discovery Channel show. |
| May 17 |
Grades are in: A, A, A, A- |
| May 13 |
John gone; Chris mans the store and runs the show. |
| May 5 |
Semester over, gearing up for Africa. |
| May 1 |
Simsalabim hotline server gone for good. Long live Ergo! |
| April 24 |
iMac sold on eBay. |
| April 19 |
Tivo arrives, life changes... |
| April 18 |
Happy Birthday Jane. |
| April 6 |
Getting squashed at squash, but having a ball. |
| April 2 |
Osiris massively multiplayer RPG development begins. |
| March 24 |
Slinging.org surpasses 3500 posts, ~28k visitors, 1mil+
hits. |
| March 23 |
It's official, I'm taking up squash; equipment on route. |
| March 11 to 21 |
Trip to the motherland, "time of my life" with Jane. |
| March 4 to 7 |
CS Games, overall 8th out of 26. |
| February 19 |
Motorbike dead again; new spark plugs do the trick. |
| February 11 |
Bought ticket to England for spring break. |
| January 18 |
Discovery Channel/BBC documentary on slings airs. |
| January 17 |
Gearing up for CS Games. |
| January 14 |
Return home. |
| January 11 |
Depart for Orlando, FL; Fun with Hesh, Oliver, and Rob. |
| January 7 |
Full patent filed with the USPTO. |
| January 6 |
Jane leaves. Find out grades: A, A, A, B. |
| January 1 |
Welcome 2004! |
2003
| December 31 |
New years in/near Times Square. |
| December 26 |
Selected as next semester's eTutor for Unix Tools. |
| December 22 |
Jane comes for winter break. |
| December 19 |
Finals over; survived fall semester. |
| December 9 |
BA Honors project completed. |
| November 22 |
Motorbike hasn't started in 2 weeks, Carducci fixes. |
| November 9 |
ACM Prog Competition, "Best Fresh/Sophomore Team" |
| November 8 |
Motorbike parking signage in place, bought permit. |
| November 7 |
Slinging.org passes 10k visitor mark, 364,863 hits. |
| November 1 |
PIC development stalls, hardware troubles. |
| October 28 |
Aurora project revived with Hesh developing Java client. |
| October 22 |
Motherboard wall art complete. |
| October 18 |
Local paper, front page story about motorcycle parking. |
| October 9 |
Village Board passes motorbike parking resolution. |
| October 7 |
Slinging.org receives 153 visitors today. |
| September 29 |
Present to town board about motorbike parking. |
| September 19 |
PIC microprocessor development begins. |
| September 14 |
Slinging.org t-shirts suggested. |
| September 12 |
Motherboard wall piece started. |
| September 10 |
Slinging.org's 4000th visitor. |
| September 5 |
Meet with Grimm, start ind. study with him. |
| September 2 |
Aurora project stalls again. |
| August 31 |
Site redesigned. |
| August 30 |
Slinging.org's 3000th visitor. |
| August 24 |
Horizon Designs site retired, H2 goes up. |
| August 21 |
Slinging.org forum passes 200-posts mark. |
| August 18 |
Aurora MMORPG graphics code feature-complete. |
| August 17 |
Menken project done. |
| August 15 |
Aurora MMORPG project resumes with Ethan's help. |
| August 13 |
Sculptor Walt Horton contacts me regarding slings. |
| August 12 |
Slinging.org receives 85 visitors today. |
| August 11 |
Slinging.org's 2000th visitor (since June 1st). |
| August 11 & 12 |
Travel with Hesham to MIT CS conference. |
| August 2 |
Slinging.org forum goes live. |
| August 1 |
Win Sony SL10 Clie handheld for Jane. |
| August 1 |
Resume day job. |
| July 26 |
Jane Leaves :( |
| July |
Tour NYC, travel to Canada, much fun. |
| June 28 |
Jane arrives; month in US. :) |
| June 27 |
Laptop sells on eBay for $490. |
| June 14 |
Finally get to ride my new motorcycle. |
| June 9 |
CM website wraps up as Menken's project begins. |
| June 2 |
Slinging.org receives 46 unique visitors today, highest
yet. |
| May 28 |
Grades for spring 2003 semester very sweet! |
| May 19 |
BBC contacts me regarding sling documentary. |
| May 18 |
Summer school session begins. |
| May 12 |
University finishes. |
| April 19 |
Slinging.org generates first email question. |
| April 18 |
Happy Birthday Jane! |
| April 14 |
Slinging community pledges support. |
| March 20 |
Slinging.org goes live, little content. |
| March 19 |
Aurora MMOPRG graphics and server code progressing well. |
| March 16 |
2003 CS Games Montréal, 1st place! |
| March 14 |
Spring break, depart for Montréal. |
| March 6 |
Universe MMORPG started. |
| February 21 |
Intercollegiate sports honor roll. |
| February 2 |
Augmented reality proposal complete. |
| February 1 |
Chris Harrison from UK visits! |
| February 1 |
Remember Columbia and her crew. |
| January 31 |
Team Captain for CS Games, Montreal. |
| January 30 |
Finches given away |
| January 21 |
Back to college. |
| January 21 |
Patent pending. |
| January 3 |
Finches leave nest. |
| January 1 |
Welcome 2003! |
2002
| December 26 |
In newspaper for "Coolest hobby of the year" (Trebuchet). |
| December 19 |
Finch eggs hatch! |
| December 17 |
Started winter break job. |
| December 16 |
All finals finished. |
| December 12 |
Trebuchet finds home at high school. |
| December 11 |
Semester over. |
| December 5 |
Pet finch lays 4th and final egg. |
| December 2 |
Pet finch lays an egg! |
| November 3 |
ACM Programming Competition. |
| October 27 |
"Fire!" completed. |
| October 19 |
"Fire!" programming started. |
| October 17 |
LCARS-like graphics for LIC finished. |
| October 11 |
Trebuchet in the newspaper. |
| October 5 |
LIC software being developed. |
| September 27 |
Patent process started. |
| September 20 |
New 8 in 1 Hauberk started. |
| September 4 |
Start university. |
| August 11 |
L-Day, trebuchet v2.0 done. |
| August 4 |
Trebuchet version 2 started. |
| July 31 |
Trebuchet completed. |
| July 26 |
Trebuchet Project started. |
| July 24 |
AP Grades are in... 5, 5, 5! |
| July 23 |
Return from England trip. |
| June 26 |
Begin trip to England. |
| June 25 |
Graduate High School. |
| June 6 |
1st place Tingley Scholarship. |
| May 18 |
4th place engineering at ISEF. |
| May 13 |
Off to ISEF. |
| May 13 |
Get US Citizenship. |
| April 11 |
Chainmail suit completed. |
| April 9 |
1st place NYSSEF, advance to international. |
| April 4 to 5 |
3rd place state level JSHS. |
| March 16 |
1st place WESEF, advance to state level. |
| February 24 |
Halberk almost done, need stand. |
| February 9 |
3rd place in JSHS, advance to state level. |
| January 21 |
Meteor Run and Sprite Class done. |
| January 18 |
Hauberk over 4500 rings! |
| January 13 |
Chainmail hauberk fits me! |
| January 5 |
Meteor Run project starts. |
| January 2 |
Chainmail shirt expansion starts. |
| January 1 |
Welcome 2002! |
2001
| December 23 |
Chainmail shirt small, but done. |
| November 21 |
I'm making chainmail! |
| November 19 |
Intel paper completed and sent. |
| October 26 |
Ameba game finished. |
| September 29 |
"Chris Harrison Day" in my town. |
| September 29 |
Recognized as "Outstanding Citizen" by NY State Assembly. |
| September 29 |
Eagle Scout ceremony. "Chris Harrison Day" in the county. |
| September 11 |
Oh my god! Watch events unfold live on BBC. |
| September 5 |
School begins. |
| September 4 |
LIC version 2 construction complete. |
| Late July |
"Laptop-in-Car" project started. |
| June 27 |
Started work at Curtis. |
| June 26 |
Sandak engine complete. |
| June 21 |
Sandak programming 80% done. |
| June 20 |
School year ends. |
| June 13 |
Sandak RPG started. |
| June 7 |
BaLiS OpenGL final build. |
| June 5 |
BaLiS CMU final build. |
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