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Right now I�0�9m coding. My mind is operating in a hyper-connected nether-realm of computer code. My physical body has withered away, leaving only my mind, communicating with the computer in object-oriented languages. I am a hacker, only responding to the name Zerocool.
Actually, I�0�9m not coding. I�0�9m taking a break to blog. For the past two […]

Yesterday I went to the Kentucky Derby. It was, as former Playboy photographer and father of gonzo journalism Hunter S. Thompson put it, decadent and depraved. We (Nick, Mike, and myself) left Chicago at 7 a.m. Central Time for the four-hour drive to Louisville, stopping only for a huge breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and for […]

Friday morning, I signed the lease to my new apartment. Goodbye 5600 Drexel, hello 5326 Greenwood. The new apartment is much bigger and less dingy for a reasonable price. I’m living with Brian and Dele (my roommate in the dorms last year), and a mystery fourth roommate. Coincidently, my friends Dorothea, Nina, and Adele live […]

Earlier today, while playing basketball at the gym, I was elbowed really hard below my jaw, causing me to bite my tongue. I could taste blood and my jaw ached, but I kept playing because I�0�9m hardcore like that. Afterwards, I looked at my tongue in a mirror. There were two small cuts from my […]

Today, there was a pin-pricking spree at my alma mater Binghamton High School (cheesy-ass web site). Two girls attacked 41 other students with safety pins. The Associated Press release was posted on Drudge Report. (via Mike “Politics-and-Web-Design” Morosi)

Today, Professor Kiselev, my math professor from Russia, wrote a theorem on the board about Reimann sums and integrability. The theorem was an �0�6if and only if�0�7 statement, meaning that if you assume a function is integrable, then you can prove it�0�9s Reimann sum converges to the integral, and conversely that if you assume the […]

Today I changed my desktop wallpaper to Van Gogh�0�9s Bedroom in Arles. My computer is in my bedroom, and I have a picture of a bedroom on my computer. That is so clever. I am so clever. I amaze myself with my stupendous yet subtle wit. Wow, I am so witty and clever.
What if Van […]

Friday evening at a party, a girl named Lauren came up to me and introduced herself.
�0�6Are you Aaron?�0�7 she asked. �0�6I know Todd. He showed me ktheory.�0�7
That�0�9s the first time somebody has recognized me in real life from my weblog. That�0�9s so awesome.
Today I went for a run along the lakeshore. Last weekend I tried […]

I made a mix CD today. It’s entitled The Soundtrack to Aaron’s Life, April 8, 2002.
Here’s the track list:
1. Cat With Two Heads! by The Aquabats
2. Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman
3. Winter In the Suburbs by Brighton
4. Blue Rondo a la Turk by Dave Brubeck
5. It Don’t Mean a Thing by Duke Ellington and […]

When I left the apartment this morning, it was 50 degrees. I didn’t even wear a jacket. Now there’s an inch of snow on the ground. That’s really annoying. It’s supposed to get warmer throughout the day, not colder. Way to go with the April Fool’s joke God. At least I can move between all […]

Paul Ford of Ftrain emailed me this morning regarding the ‘look and feel’ of ktheory and its admitted likeness to that of Ftrain:
“I, Paul Ford, hereby proclaim that I love being ripped off - it’s the
only real way to know that I’m doing something right. I think Mr. Suggs Weblog
is extremely cool, and I’m […]

I was eating lunch at a Hyde Park café when a mother and her son, about 5-years-old, sat beside me at the counter. Being an undergraduate, my immediate community consists almost entirely of 18 to 22-year-olds; so I welcome the rare occasion to observe young children.
I thought little of them while the mother sorted through […]

The whole winter quarter was pretty excellent. I became good friends with Margaret from my math class. She�0�9s really funny, and whenever I say something that�0�9s the tiniest bit bullshit, she calls me on it (which is frequently). This has been one of my best quarters academically, and I liked my classes a lot. My […]

It’s snowing outside right now–big wet flakes. I’m sitting in the computer lab, which is on the third floor of the library. Out the window, I can see the snowflakes balancing on the tops of tree branches. Snow on trees is particularly beautiful. Occassionally, enough snow piles up on a branch to cause a clump […]

Today was a good day. Technically, I mean yesterday was a good day. But since I was awake during the date change, it still feels like the same day. After leaving the apartment at 9:00AM, I did not return until 12:30AM. I went to computer programming class, French class, and watched Jerry Springer in the […]

Last November, one of my room mates, a cat lover, found three kittens. Eventually, we gave two to the Humane Society, and kept one. From one perspective, he saved the cat from probably death during the winter, and has ensured that the cat will survive much longer. From another perspective, we imprisoned the cat in […]

I just saw Waking Life, the acclaimed film directed by Richard Linklater. My next action is to see every film he ever made. Wow, what an interesting film!

The new computer has arrived. This makes me very happy indeed.

Merry Christmas everybody!

I’ve been tracking the new computer.