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Entries for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

Thoughts on Individualism

I was flying from Seattle into Virginia yesterday and while two babies behind me were competing to see who could scream louder and kick the seat in front of them harder, and I was trying to make sense of the on-flight movie, 500 Days of Summer, I came upon an interesting thought. It might sound [...]

Videogame != Source Code

My friend, Chris, is an awesome game developer who taught me quite a bit about what it means to make a game. He recently commented on an article called “What Pac-Man Really Looks Like”, which brings up the question of whether a disassembly of the Pac-Man program is what the game really is. It seems [...]

An Incredibly Talented Country Singer/Songwriter…

I’d been meaning to write about Taylor Swift for a long while now and it seems like after the Kanye West incident at the MTV Music Video Awards, there couldn’t be a better time to explain my praises for this amazingly talented singer/songwriter. It might be easy to pass this singer off as a pretty girl [...]

Transforming into a More Personal Site

Up until now, I’ve kept this site pretty much limited to just projects and work I had done, but that’s really not too interesting, and it doesn’t reflect me very accurately to include all of the non-computer related things I love and think about (and it’s really hard to write about!). So here is to [...]

I am graduating!

Just an update… it’s been pretty hectic around here and final exams are wrapping up my last semester of undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon but I wanted to let everyone know that I am still here. I am planning to add a category of papers I researched and wrote so that other people might be [...]