Dan Barker and Jesus
Last night, I attended another talk with Dan Barker, at Saddleback College; this time about the historical person of Jesus Christ, hosted by the free thinkers club. Again, this is a brief transcription covering all the major points of his…
Victory!
Last week, Tuesday, I noticed that my club, AAR, was counter-postering some heinous christian fundies. You see, every once in a while there are these christian fellas with obnoxious signs like “Repent Sinners, You’re going to HELL!”, you know the…
Speech on Chaos Theory and Ecological Stability
I wrote this speech on the way to an Academic Decathlon competition in high school. I still like it, but see now that I really should have been speaking of path lines in attractor fields. Other than that very important…
Posters!
Posters about my current research (Information Flow in JavaScript) were accepted to Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS ’09) and 2009 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO). This means that I have some work to…
Unhappiness
For some reason, quite unknown to me, I’ve been rather depressed lately. Normally, I coast through with a general state of melancholy, with entertaining, but superficial, jokes, comments, arguments, etc. This general state of contentment though has been displaced with…
Stump the Professor
The Campus Crusade for Christ at UCI is has invited a certain Jon Rittenhouse to stand in front of an audience and defend his faith. They kindly offer a prize of $100 to anyone if they ask a question to…
Application to Grad School
I’ve been at UCI for a whole quarter now and it looks like I never posted the application that did so much towards getting me here. Although I am now working on web browser security, rather than parallel computing, my…
Neologisms
Yesterday at the pub I was involved in a very extended (civil and remarkable productive) dialog about morality and society. We touch on many topics in the course of discussion, one of them being the difference between reason and faith….
An interesting series of questions.
I caught this scribbled on a piece of paper, as I was cleaning my desk today. Is there anything more valuable than human life? If No: Then when reason have we to live? If Yes: Then do such things justify…
TA Training
Last week I had to attend an all day course for new TA’s (even though I won’t become a TA until at least next year). For lack of a better spot to record the notes I took during the class,…