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willpower

i really don’t have a strong will. not that i’m using it for a good purpose. last night, i went home, and for this and that reason, i didn’t have dinner. when i realized this, i decided that i would skip dinner and go to bed. however, after i finished up [...]

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Thu, March 11 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

bone scan

tomorrow morning, i have to go to PAMF at 9am to get an injection. then, i’m headed off to work for 3 hours, and then i have to go back to get a full-body bone scan. yup. did i tell you guys about this already?
basically, in my first blood test after my [...]

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Tue, March 9 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

virginia

100th post! so what i didn’t tell you guys was that this past weekend, i took a flight out to virginia to see S.
friday night, i took will out to maruichi for his birthday, and then he took me to the airport. i had a 9:50pm redeye out to IAD (dulles). i [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » weekend updates » 1 Comment

quick blip

hey people, it’s almost 7pm, and i just got out of a 1.5 hour meeting that was like pulling teeth. so i’m going to make this short and go home. my meeting was about static timing constraints, and if you know what i’m talking about, then you will know that it is one [...]

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Thu, February 25 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

never trust the code

i guess that’s the motto of a verification engineer. code is never verified unless you test it. otherwise, you have to assume that it doesn’t work.
that’s what happened today. we got a new release of the AC code, so i ran through my basic sanity tests. things were fine. but [...]

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Wed, February 24 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

suicide bomber

i had a crazy dream this morning at 6am. (i always seem to wake up at 6am these days.) i was part of a military force, and i was packing a pistol. my regiment was scanning around a plaza or something, and suddenly, we identified a suicide bomber. (i remembered that [...]

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Tue, February 23 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

the sendoff

friday night, my cousin D was visiting SF from LA, and he took the 8:40 caltrain down to come to my place. before he got here at 9:50pm or so, i watched the celtics/trailblazers game. rajon rondo can’t really score, but he’s a pretty damn good point guard otherwise.
i picked up D from [...]

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Mon, February 22 2010 » weekend updates » No Comments

hyperspace

this morning, i had a really scary experience. i got to work, and i sat at my cubicle and immediately started to do some work after a few minutes. then, my brain just started to freak out. it sped up faster and faster, and suddenly, i felt like my head was in [...]

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Fri, February 19 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

race condition

so i found a weird issue in my test today, one which could explain why it’s failing.
so suppose you have a clock that’s sampling another signal. and in your simulation, at the clock’s edge, the other signal changes at the exact same time. which value do you get then? ah, that’s the [...]

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Thu, February 18 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments

jumping on the chance

since vegetarian coworker R is in india, i’m taking the opportunity to eat lunch at places where we couldn’t go before, i.e. places with no veggie options. so today, i suggested that the four of us go to adamsons french dip in sunnyvale. the only non-meat options that adamsons has are french fries, [...]

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Wed, February 17 2010 » general mundane shit » No Comments