Laurabelle's Blog

It's Friday night, and I've just come home from work. I called Jeff and told him that I got a 4.0 in comp sci, so he's bringing his laptop and textbook(s) over here to geek C, C++, and gcc at me. This is about as crazy as it gets for me on a Friday night.

I don't have a lot to say in a review/commentary of Fahrenheit 451. I particularly don't have anything intelligent to say along the lines of literary analysis. For me, the interesting thing about the book is the rough sketch it gives of a world with no books and thus no libraries.

Almost exactly seven years ago, when I was sixteen, I left home and my parents for the first time. I was away for a year, and then I came back to Texas for my senior year of high school. That was the last year I spent at home, because then I went to Mount Holyoke, [...]

The last pair programming assignment in CSE 142 was hellishly hard. It was the culmination of a three-week traffic-simulation project which got more and more complicated at every step. This week's assignment involved cars following directions to get to a destination and making turns, as well as obeying traffic lights and not running into other [...]

My friend Ai Ling was in Washington for the summer, so yesterday she and her fiancé Kris took the train in to visit for an afternoon. It was a very short afternoon (they arrived at the train station at 12:45 and left at 17:30, and there was about an hour of bus commute in each [...]

Yesterday evening, when Jeff started making noises about meeting up with his gaming friends, I was happy for him to spend time with his friends. But I like to spend time with him too, and I was a little distressed that not only had I never met these friends of his, but he had never [...]

The other day, a KCLS patron emailed in and requested Amazon-like features for iPac (the web catalog), such as people who checked out this author’s work also checked out these other authors. Now, of course we can’t do that right now because it’s not one of the features available in iPac, but the question got [...]

Where the heck does Aquarion find these things? Meine Damen und Herren, I present to you Staplerfahrer Klaus. (7 MB, Windows Media Player format, but worth it especially if you know some German).

Inspired by Bob Stephen, I'm posting a list of ALA's 100 most frequently challenged books for 1990-2000, with the ones I've read in bold. I've actually read distressingly few of them. Must remedy that.

With Aquarion going on about CCDE last weekend, I’m reminded of CCDE 2001 which I attended two years ago, and at which I was supremely miserable. It was kind of like a big pub meet, but out in a field in the middle of Suffolk, and I don’t like pubs. I don’t particularly like fields [...]