| 2011 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 30 | Ruta Lenca. Opal mines in Erandique. Brutal roads. Yojoa Lake. | |||
| December 29 | Hike Montaña de Celauqe national park. | |||
| December 28 | Plunge south from San Pedro Sula to Copan Ruins, then onto Gracias. | |||
| December 27 | Breakfast and Highline. Meet Harrisons; depart for Honduras. | |||
| December 26 | New York Botanical Gardens, Nutcracker, NYC. | |||
| December 21 | To Ogan's for Christmas. Unwind a bit. | |||
| December 19 | Meeting with Phipps Conservatory. Forbes 30 under 30 in science. | |||
| December 16 | Prototyping class final presentations. Hacking with Mune. | |||
| December 9 | Back home, for now... | |||
| December 7 | Depart for CHI program committee meeting in Boston. | |||
| December 6 | Touché person identification works! Moira's defense party. | |||
| December 2 | HCII holiday party. Brendan officially unveils multitocuh wall. | |||
| December 1 | GSA beer tasting at Phipps. | |||
| November 28 | Guest lecture to PUI/SSUI class. Second Phone as Pixels test; ~90 devices. | |||
| November 23 | To the Ogans for Thanksgiving and proposal writing. | |||
| November 20 | Back to the 'burgh. | |||
| November 19 | Quick stop to catch up with parents. | |||
| November 18 | Meetings all day, roam city until 3am. PocketTouch on Giz, Engadget. | |||
| November 17 | Fly to NYC for XRDS meeting at ACM HQ. Decide the future! | |||
| November 16 | First large scale Phones as Pixels test. Flawless. | |||
| November 13 | Celebrate Stephen's birthday paintballing. | |||
| November 8 | Turn in cognitively informed interfaces book chapter. | |||
| November 3 | ABC news interview airs. OmniTouch passes 1 million views on YouTube. | |||
| October 31 | Armura paper accepted to TEI. | |||
| October 28 | Motorcycle passes 10,000 mile mark. Halloween parties. | |||
| October 21 | Interior design and art galore. Walker pad makeover! | |||
| October 20 | Fly to Phoenix to see Erin. TapSense in Wall Street Journal, New Scientist. | |||
| October 19 | Three talks in one day. TapSense hits blogosphere. | |||
| October 18 | Saponas presents PocketTouch. | |||
| October 17 | UIST student contest demo day! OmniTouch goes viral. | |||
| October 16 | Depart for UIST in Santa Barbara. | |||
| October 15 | Operation "missing finger" with Stephen, Christian and Robert. | |||
| October 13 | Christian visits for 4 days. Action packed; 20% accuracy. | |||
| October 8 | PhD+MHCI party @ Friendship House. | |||
| October 5 | Meet with Stelarc. | |||
| September 30 | Happoning.com is born. | |||
| September 23 | Another CHI, a little bit grayer. | |||
| September 20 | Film demos with Mune 'til sunset. | |||
| September 19 | Granddad and co. departs. | |||
| September 17 | Stephen returns! Yey! Momix at Byham. | |||
| September 16 | Cambridge Footlights at CMU. | |||
| September 15 | Granddad and co. come to PGH for long weekend. | |||
| September 12 | Capture better "phone as a pixel" demo video. | |||
| September 9 | Attempt mass "phone as a pixel" demo at TG. Further tweaking required. | |||
| September 8 | Kick off research project with Brendan. | |||
| September 6 | Alcatel-Lucent visit. Tasting menu at Toast. Yumm. | |||
| August 29 | Give first lecture for PUI Prototyping. Photo wall is installed in HCII foyer. | |||
| August 27 | Faculty-themed cocktails party. Celebrate the return of Jason! | |||
| August 24 | Wrap up photo wall. Work late, then dinner at Justine's. | |||
| August 24 | Build+Design event for PhD orientation. | |||
| August 20 | Dan Fitz visits for weekend. | |||
| August 19 | Lunch with John Stasko. Repay owed lunch :) | |||
| August 12 | Wedding venue explorations. Visit Ogans and Galers. | |||
| August 8 | Ben leaves and Ruth defends. Start gearing up for big CHI push. | |||
| August 5 | Finally get a PA license. Junkyard run. BBQ. | |||
| August 4 | Ben visits for long weekend, sees house for first time. Sandcastle. | |||
| July 30 | Magnus Rex filming. Tumblers, guns and explosions! | |||
| July 28 | LG presentation. QoLT keynote. Munehiko and Ivan impedance sensor project. | |||
| July 22 | Magnus Rex costume fitting. Ogans visit for weekend. | |||
| July 16 | Sarah Reeder visits for weekend. | |||
| July 13 | Scramble to get winter XRDS issue figured out. | |||
| July 12 | Heinz presentation on attention/social tracking work. | |||
| July 4 | Quick peek at old gold mines, then back to Auckland for flight home. | |||
| July 3 | Cathedral Cove, dig hole at Hot Water Beach, Whitiange spa, trailer in Thames. | |||
| July 2 | Coromandel Peninsula, Driving Creek Railway, Kauri trees, stay at Hahei Beach. | |||
| June 30 | Talk at NextSpace about research and viz projects. | |||
| June 29 | Amy's Conference starts, chris works. Talk and lunch at U. Auckland. | |||
| June 28 | 7-hour splish-splash up cave. Mind blowing glow worms. | |||
| June 27 | Sheep sheering. Waitomo via Napier. Glow worm night walk. | |||
| June 26 | Haurata farm house. Endless emerald-green hills and sheep. Catch up on work. | |||
| June 25 | Edwardian spa tour, more kiwis. Drive along Bay of Plenty. | |||
| June 24 | Waiotapu thermal area, Huka Falls, dip in Kerosene Creek, Maori dinner, Kiwis! | |||
| June 23 | Meet up with gang. South to Rotorua. Ogo. | |||
| June 22 | Sunrise Kayaking. Crazy antiques guy. Back to Queenstown, then Auckland. | |||
| June 21 | Drive to Milford Sound. Part of Routeburn Track. Overnight cruise. Beautiful. | |||
| June 20 | Puddle jump to Queenstown. South to Te Anau. Kepler Track mini hike. | |||
| June 19 | Land in Auckland late. JetStar wrangling. | |||
| June 17 | Fly to New Zealand | |||
| May 30 | BBQ at our place. Stephen departs soon. | |||
| May 26 | Home again. Junk room renovations for next week.. | |||
| May 25 | Visit Galers. | |||
| May 23 | Babysitting Emily. Williamsburg. | |||
| May 22 | Ocean City, Lucy, Mac & Manco's. | |||
| May 21 | Attend wedding in Atlantic City. | |||
| May 20 | Almost lose a wheel on route to Galers. Change of plan. | |||
| May 13 | Home again. Back with Amy. Ogans in town. | |||
| May 11 | Present Kineticons research at CHI Conference. | |||
| May 8 | Fly to Seattle for CHI. Jason fleeced. | |||
| May 6 | Jill Duffy in da 'burgh. | |||
| May 3 | Fly home. | |||
| May 2 | Shopping, Bosnian pyramids, Croatian police, back to Budapest. | |||
| May 1 | Explore curiously charming Sarajevo - warm and war torn. | |||
| April 30 | Into Bosnia & Herzegovina. Mostar, Drežnica Valley, Sarajevo. | |||
| April 29 | Properly explore Dubrovnik. | |||
| April 28 | Scenic coastal road to impressive Dubrovnik. | |||
| April 27 | The sights and sounds of Split. | |||
| April 26 | Push south to Split; Šibenik for lunch detour. | |||
| April 25 | Cave raft into Krizna jama. Into Croatia: friendly Rovinj. | |||
| April 24 | Continue NW loop: Vintgar Gorge, Vršič pass, blue rivers, Škocjan Caves (crazy). | |||
| April 23 | Puppet show. Start NW loop: Škofja Loka, Kranj, Bled til sunset. | |||
| April 22 | Coal mine in Velenje, then onto Ljubljana. Explore charming capital. | |||
| April 21 | Family friends, more info in Nova Mesto. Otočec castle. Partisanos concert. | |||
| April 20 | Book it to Metlika, Slovenia. Amy's long lost relatives. Farm stay. | |||
| April 19 | Explore Zagreb. | |||
| April 18 | Ridiculous crepes & bath caves. Lake Balaton on route to Croatia. | |||
| April 17 | Breakfast, then onto Aggtalek Caves. Night in Eger. | |||
| April 16 | Explore city; railway museum. | |||
| April 15 | Land in Budapest. | |||
| April 14 | Wrap up UIST papers. Pack for Balkans. | |||
| April 10 | Drafted for HCI water polo team. | |||
| April 8 | Depart MSR. Thanks Benko and Andy! | |||
| February 13 | Ski Stevens Pass. | |||
| February 10 | Amy in Seattle for weekend. First leaded glass class. | |||
| February 3 | Dr. Ogan. Celebrations. | |||
| January 28 | Fly Home for Amy Defense. | |||
| January 17 | First day back at MSR. *stretches fingers* | |||
| January 16 | Chris returns to the Emerald City. | |||
| January 14 | Art+design+archi+HCII Winter Shakeoff party. | |||
| January 10 | Return to the 'burgh. Prepare for three months at MSR. | |||
| January 9 | Hesh and Hala's reception. | |||
| January 6 | Crank it back to Managua for flight home. Last minute shopping. | |||
| January 5 | Jump and swim down the Somoto Canyon. | |||
| January 4 | Plunge into the northern highlands, via León, to Esteli. | |||
| January 3 | Kick back at Bahia Majagual. Watch starlit sea turtles dig, lay eggs. | |||
| January 2 | North to Playa el Coco. Ride waves all day. | |||
| January 1 | On to San Juan del Sur. Playa Maderas for waves and pacific sunset. | |||
| 2010 | |
|---|---|
| December 31 | Motorcycle to San Ramón waterfalls. Crash (bike) and burn (skin). |
| December 30 | Ferry to Ometepe Island. |
| December 29 | Zipline 2km through canopy. Pottery in San Juan del Oriente. |
| December 28 | Explore mansions, hospitals, bell towers, Las Isletas. Amy departs. |
| December 27 | Laguna Apoyo, markets, Volcan Masaya, and caves with bats. |
| December 26 | South to Managua to hook up with Harrisons. On to Granada. |
| December 24 | León for Christmas festivities. Go clubbing?! |
| December 21 | Nicaragua. Northward to Las Peñitas. Chill+work on the beach. |
| December 19 | Base at Sámara beach to work. Last days in Costa Rica. |
| December 18 | Explore Terciopelo cave. Subterranean proposal to Amy. |
| December 17 | Go canyoning, rappelling. Then book it to Barra Honda. |
| December 16 | Hike to curious Rio Celeste. |
| December 15 | Depart San Jose; kick back in Arenal. |
| December 14 | Make it to Costa Rica. With Amy :) |
| December 13 | Ice-induced travel chaos in Atlanta. Hang with Lana. |
| December 12 | Sell car. Goodbye red dragon... |
| December 10 | CHI program committee meeting. |
| December 4 | Send last sling from Slinging.org. Seven years of slingcraft. |
| November 30 | ShareLight demos. Works, impresses. |
| November 28 | Etown Thanksgiving. |
| November 21 | Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. Curious. |
| November 18 | Korth visits CMU. |
| November 12 | Paint door facade. Painted lady emerges. |
| November 11 | CHI metas due, business club prez, dodgeball. |
| October 30 | Rust belt morning, Warhol evening. |
| October 29 | Pitt Homecoming, Jane, halloween begins. |
| October 22 | HCI house party! |
| October 20 | To the theatre; 39 steps. |
| October 17 | French door molding completed. Many high fives. |
| October 15 | Dan, Amy, and tall ladders. Paint house exterior. |
| October 9 | Parents in town. |
| October 5 | Catch up with Korth. SV party. |
| October 4 | UIST kicks off. TeslaTouch demos rock. |
| September 30 | Fly to NYC. Family before UIST. |
| September 27 | Start to hang crown molding. Livin' it up like it's 1904. |
| September 24 | CHI Deadline. Another year, a little bit grayer. |
| September 19 | Friendship House Tour. Lots of ideas. |
| September 18 | Film on-body computing demos with Shilpa. |
| September 13 | Amy Departs. |
| September 10 | Gearing up for CHI. Kineticon set complete. TipTap mobile. |
| August 28 | Bleep Cabinet and j-dub b-day. |
| August 23 | Start classes; welding! |
| August 19 | Motocross training. Crazy. Burning. |
| August 16 | New PhD's arrive; karaoke night. |
| August 15 | Secret City round two. Catch up with gang for PGH hike. |
| August 14 | BBQ at Ivan's house. |
| August 7 | Stock up on paint. Upstairs bathroom almost renovated. |
| August 5 | Tour Allegheny County Jail. |
| August 1 | TEI deadline. |
| July 24 | Finish restoration on Edmond House. Whew. |
| July 18 | IEEE MultiMedia article on quality computing out. |
| July 16 | Dragon Boat drummer. |
| July 2 | Pink toilet sells, shipping adventure begins. |
| June 25 | Gut powder room, begin renewal. |
| June 23 | Pittsburgh Earthquake! |
| June 22 | IEEE Computer article on appropriated interactive surfaces is out. |
| June 7 | Kayak Russian River. |
| June 1 | Flying trapeze. |
| May 30 | Visiting LA. ACM XRDS launches; mailing to thousands. |
| May 24 | Working in NYC. |
| May 23 | Train to Harrisburg. Chicken Tandoori! |
| May 21 | ATVing with Amy through mines and meadows. |
| May 20 | Dinner with Ph.D. cohort. Restart force field haptics project. |
| May 19 | Science with Olivier! |
| May 14 | UIST reviews polished off. Allegheny Observatory tour. |
| May 8 | Motorcycle gets fixed, tuned up. |
| May 4 | Flying with ZQ. Capture aerial footage. |
| April 28 | TechNewsDaily interview. Golan's class open house. |
| April 27 | Meet with Rick McCullough. Tokyo TV interview. |
| April 24 | Start IEEE articles. Dirty Ball. |
| April 23 | Computer World interview. |
| April 22 | Lecture for DHCS |
| April 21 | Wall Street Journal Digits interview. |
| April 18 | Secret City. Finish garden makeover. |
| April 17 | CMU buggy & carnival; theatre. Start on garden. |
| April 16 | Fly home. Parents arrive for weekend. |
| April 14 | Four papers at CHI today. Karaoke. |
| April 13 | Interviews with CNN, Reuters, KDKA. |
| April 12 | Present Skinput. Live demo. Audience uses. Mono. |
| April 11 | Depart for Atlanta; CHI 2010. |
| April 7 | BBQ with friends and neighbors. Enjoy spring weather. |
| April 3 | E-town for O-family events. |
| April 2 | UIST Deadline. *wipes sweat from brow* |
| March 26 | Skinput on BBC News front page for two days; most read story. |
| March 26 | Open house reception at Friendship House. |
| March 25 | HCII prospective Ph.D. students arrive. Festivities begin. |
| March 19 | Decide to redo porch over weekend with Jason, John & Julia. |
| March 14 | Gear up for UIST 2010 deadline. Demos and experiments. |
| March 11 | Home sweet home. 860 emails! Skinput press. |
| March 10 | Bus back to Guatemala City. Market Rampage. Return to PGH. |
| March 9 | Swim cave by candle light. Limestone pools. Cobán. Jose "tour". |
| March 8 | Volcán Pacaya. S'mores over lava! Bus to Semuc Champey. |
| March 7 | Chicken bus; Chichicastenango market. Antigua Easter procession. |
| March 6 | Jungle Sunrise. Explore ruins. St. Elena. South to Antigua! |
| March 5 | Wander Flores. Miguel. Tikal: Sunset, night "tour", hammocks. |
| March 4 | To Guatemala! Guat. City. Haggle Flores flight. Skinput on NPR. |
| March 3 | Back in Pittsburgh for 20 hours. Work like mad. |
| March 2 | TechFest 2010. Skinput rockin'. Redeye flight home. |
| March 1 | Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship award ceremony. |
| February 28 | Depart for Seattle, Microsoft Research. |
| February 26 | Disney Research electrostatic touch table slated for UIST. |
| February 23 | Acrylic ceiling tiles arrive, DevLab looking pretty sweet! |
| February 22 | Wrestling. |
| February 19 | Weekend of house painting! Whew! |
| February 16 | Hack together multitouch table with Olivier. |
| February 15 | Back to Las Vegas for flight home. Hoover dam. |
| February 14 | Round trip to Colorado river. Hike out. Night on the South Rim. |
| February 13 | Descend into canyon for night. Plateau point for sunset. |
| February 12 | Off to Grand Canyon for long weekend. Crank it to Williams, AZ. |
| February 6 | Dig tent out, dig car out, dig neighbors out, warm shower. |
| February 5 | Snowmageddon hits for a week. Camp in Frick Park. |
| 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; meet Amy. |
| 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. |