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I guess it’s a good thing that the Treasury department is releasing more details on the banking “stress tests.”  That said, the engineer (or the circuits lab TA) in me can’t help but hear “smoke test” any time someone says stress test.  In engineering, you wire up your design and power it up for the [...]

I’m over at the Compressive Sensing Workshop today.  I wasn’t too sure about compressive sensing as a topic, but after reading the abstracts, it seems to have a lot of application to basic image processing.  Or at least the same concepts are applicable.
One logistics note.  Attention conference centers everywhere: speaking as a tea drinker, it [...]

K and I don’t eat much meat – no red meat, no poultry, etc.  Theoretically, we still eat fish, but since I won’t cook it…
This weekend, we experimented with a couple of new recipes that, in hindsight, were even vegan:

VegetarianVegan Mac and Cheese.  Like a lot of people (I suppose), I love macaroni and cheese.  [...]

One of the phrases that bothered me the most during last year’s election (indeed, during all elections), is “small town values.”  That elevation of the mores of small communities that make them better than the rest of us who, by virtue of living in larger metro areas, apparently don’t have any values.
I’ve never lived in [...]

So K just asks me if it’s raining.  My response was to go online instead of going outside.
I’m such a dork