nondeterministic . net

On account of speaking with, reading the accounts of, and seeing photos from various Bostonians, I was considering earlier today how nice the weather is around here. And now, just a couple minutes ago, only moments after I returned from a falafel run to Ziv, it rained! A good thirty seconds of very respectable rain shower. People in all the nearby buildings were standing in doorways to see the sight. And while it passed quickly, the scent of rain is in the air.

Software verification: two hours of desperate note-taking as the lecturer was without slides. I have no idea what I wrote. No. Idea. Then, Hebrew: seems sort of silly in comparison. As for an idea of where all this is going, I am blocking on the first problem sets. From them shall we augur.

Memory management; computer security. A barrage of indecipherable Semitic-speak. With occasional interjections in English-ish: “mark and sweep,” “white hats,” “IPsec.” Stay tuned to this station for more exciting updates. And hopefully for some upcoming news about fiwt.

I went to a community theater production in the Haifa Museum of Art auditorium this evening. I didn’t understand so much. Nevertheless I thought the production had its moments and the actors took command of the event, but it all felt somewhat Deadly (per Brook). I also learned that stage lights can make blowing soap bubbles look quite wonderful, and that when the woman in charge of a community theater group learns that a foreigner heard about their production on the internet and came in order to improve his language skills, she will be excited.

Mr. Signoff has bounced my last offering right back at me.

[continue reading “Tee eye double-guh err”]

Preamble: I was sitting in my room some weeks ago working away on my Powerbook, when one of the other guys in my flat came by. We were talking, referenced a web site, and at some point I hit the key for Exposé: “Whoa, what was that?” I explained, and demonstrated. “Why did you show me that? Now I want a Mac! And instead I have to go back upstairs and use my stupid Windows computer!”

[continue reading “Me: bounce! / OS X: how high?”]

It has been a slow day of authorizing the Technion to move money into and out of my bank account… [continue reading “Politics Voting Time”]

Israel has no fixed system for determining when daylight savings time starts and ends in the country. Go them. In a problem whose cause I can only assume is rooted in this essential uncertainty, my computer is displaying the incorrect time. Sort of. [continue reading “Fall back! Fall back!”]