Life & Research Notes

A todo list on a blog is probably pretty damn boring, but for me this question of what to do (and, as Kelly points out, what not to do) seems to be an important one right now. My advisor has pointed out the meaningful experience of feeling comfortably lost: not knowing exactly where you’re going, but knowing that it is ok that you don’t know. So in an attempt to make this lost feeling more comfortable, here goes the list:

• buy things for tea (today)
• CMS group project (4/25)
• 6.891 problem set (5/3)
• 6.891 project presentation (5/3)
• CMS final paper and presentation (end of May)
• 6.891 project (end of May)
• research on social and business contracts
• finish edge collision detection on pyrticle (python physics system) and release code
• get flights home for memorial day
• make plans for july 4
• make and send out cd club mix!! (very late)
• glaze pots (next week)
• dentist
• more time with Jenn
• finish blog layout
• update résumé & portfolio
• move postgres database to the linux machine
• decouple openstudio transactions from documents (hard)
• acts_as_sellable ruby module, or some similar integration of commerce into programming. make any object ownable by another object, sellable to yet another, with a history of owners. are objects that own themselves free?
• scheme as contract programming language. disagree with John’s claim that C is the latin of computer science. look into ruby/scheme integration, perhaps via web services. scheme with thin ruby wrapper.
• rhino contract programming as web service
• burak and karen’s top secret project

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