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Summer plans: Theoretical and Actual

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Hi Internet,

I sit here in the sunny (not actually that sunny cause its night) Cayman Islands on a couch and blog to avoid paying my $5 fee. I have decided to hold off on my 6.005 critique out of overarching laziness with the theoretical rationalization that I will wait until my grade is posted before writing and emailing it to the staff so that it cannot affect said grade (I don’t actually think there is danger of that happening … but its a nice rationalization). I still plan to write it… but I’m not sure when. Maybe this week, maybe next. We’ll see. Anyway, I didn’t want to punt again and sitting, as we do, at the precipice of the summer break I thought I would take advantage of this opportunity to escape originality and present yet another formulaic post. “What I am planning to do this summer”.

Assured Arrangements:

  • As I have previously indicated, I am living at the lovely pika in Cambridgeport. I look forward to the adventure of communal living, oft-vegan eating, and all that comes along with it.
  • I am working for the Bose corporation as a Software Engineering Intern in the Home Entertainment division. I gather that I am doing some embedded C /C++ dev: whether that means memory management in DVD players or music visualization or dynamic audio equalization I have absolutely no idea. Hopefully it will be awesome
  • But before we get there, this week I am staying at the Morritt’s Tortuga Club resort in the East End of Grand Cayman with my family, doing some (scuba) diving and such, but mostly just chilling and recuperating from a semester or two at MIT.

Probable Plans:

  • As detailed three posts ago, I will be undertaking a grand experiment in beef known as the Boston Burger Crawl
  • I will be maintaining my connection with my Fifth East brethren by frequent attendance of Friday evening soirees and perhaps hanging out other times
  • I will take advantage of my car-ly-ness by adventuring to places that require a car such as the boston-rare fast food establishments of Chick-fil-a and Sonic, as well as possible other locations such as Laser Quest and .. what else does one use a car for?

Lovely Learning:

  • Once again I would like to get involved in the Boston Ruby Users group, aka Boston.rb. Interestingly, the July meeting features a contingent from my hometown area code (aka 757.rb).
  • Relatedly, I would like to finally learn Rails so that I can be something like a complete-er rubyist.
  • I would also like to finish learning Haskell. I hear that some other summer-pikans (i.e. Andrew and Kyle) are also pursuing this. There has been some talk of getting a group project going for mutual development.

Fishily Forthcoming Fabrications:

  • A remake of the toons site to be called toonsware, a complete a cappella group management site with such things as repertoire tracking and gig availability checking  (similar to doodle). Conceived as a rails project.
  • I would still really like to develop a decent personal website at one of my many owned domains such as donaldguy.{com,net,org}, dguy.org, or fawk.es. There are various notions of “personal branding” I would like to explore… but I’m not convinced I am a good enough designer
  • I would like to post here or elsewhere some actually interesting blog entries. Basic ideas include:
    • A comparison of ruby and python mentalities and culture and why I prefer what I do
    • A reflection on wealth and distribution in society
    • The aforementioned 6.005 critique
    • A critique of the “new” course VI curriculum generally
    • Various reflections on philosophy, religions, etc. … I don’t know

I’m sure there are other plans I have theoretically formed and forgotten. I may be getting dragged into a fitness thing by Keith Yost… we’ll see. There are some people I would like to have some extended conversations with over the summer to get to know better. I’m really not sure. Regardless… it will be an interesting change of pace from MIT.

Cheers,

~Donald