pyktech http://www.pyktech.com/blog paul kerl's personal site about life, the web and entertainment. Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:05:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 happy new year http://www.pyktech.com/blog/68/ http://www.pyktech.com/blog/68/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:35:54 +0000 pk http://www.pyktech.com/blog/?p=68 Great to see everyone over the break… I brought this site up since I haven’t updated in forever. So as for this blog, I’m going to try to trend towards something new for a change… I’m going to aim to post more content (it’s plausible, right?) with useful things — for instance, trends I see, technology that’s promising, maybe even products I enjoy. We’ll see.

For now and a few links to places where I already post content, in approximate descending order of posting regularity:
me on google reader
me on twitter
me on hypem

and as a taste, here is a sweet (but not really short) documentary on statistics:

]]> http://www.pyktech.com/blog/68/feed/ 0 Change is on the way http://www.pyktech.com/blog/66/ http://www.pyktech.com/blog/66/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:39:59 +0000 pk http://www.pyktech.com/blog/66/ I will be updating this site to accommodate a interesting “feed” (links essentially) items I’m reading which will run parallel to the posts on this blog. I’m pretty sure wordpress can handle this, but it will require a redesign. We’ll see how it turns out. It will be structured something like, “short blog (slog)”, “long blog (blog),” and “permanent blog (plog).”

In addition I will be making bacon chocolate chip cookies soon. Mmmmm…

]]> http://www.pyktech.com/blog/66/feed/ 0 Logging in to LAWN automatically (Georgia Tech LAWN/wireless auto-login) http://www.pyktech.com/blog/64/ http://www.pyktech.com/blog/64/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:34:18 +0000 pk http://www.pyktech.com/blog/?p=64 I’ve posted instructions on how to use cURL to auto-login to Georgia Tech’s wireless network LAWN. This supplements (well, supersedes for most) the current instructions available on the lawn.gatech.edu page itself.

Hope this helps somebody who is slightly perturbed each time they login to LAWN.

]]> http://www.pyktech.com/blog/64/feed/ 0 Summer reading list: Vonnegut, Man’s Search for Meaning, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao http://www.pyktech.com/blog/56/ http://www.pyktech.com/blog/56/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:54:17 +0000 pk http://www.pyktech.com/blog/?p=56 By Vonnegut I’ll be reading (or have read):

A Man Without a Country
Bluebeard
Breakfast of Champions

In addition I will also be reading:

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
and finally One Person / Multiple Careers by Marci Alboher

Combined with research activities, grading and teaching, traveling, cooking etc… it should be a well rounded summer.

]]> http://www.pyktech.com/blog/56/feed/ 0 What I’ve been listening to… Immuziknation, The Blow, Radiohead and others http://www.pyktech.com/blog/55/ http://www.pyktech.com/blog/55/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:08:51 +0000 pk http://www.pyktech.com/blog/?p=55 Immuzikation - Fish Tacos (Immuzikation ExtraTartarBlend) mash-up out of Athens, GA
The Blow - Parantheses song from the above mash-up
Petra Haden and Bill Frisell Petra played with the Decemberists on Picaresque
Faded Paper Figures - Logos One of the guys from Faded Paper Figures composed a sweet song for a TV commercial… unfortunately the commercial song was only as long as the commercial. Luckily, this song is longer.
Radiohead - Weird Fishes / Arpeggi Some good stuff off of In Rainbows
Weezer - The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) This is just here because hey, I forgot Weezer existed.

Kudos to hypemachine

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