pyktech

Change is on the way

pk — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:39:59 +0000

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…

Logging in to LAWN automatically (Georgia Tech LAWN/wireless auto-login)

pk — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:34:18 +0000

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.

Summer reading list: Vonnegut, Man’s Search for Meaning, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

pk — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:54:17 +0000

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.

What I’ve been listening to… Immuziknation, The Blow, Radiohead and others

pk — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:08:51 +0000

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

What this blog is, has been, and will be.

pk — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:44:23 +0000

I’ve had this blog a number of years. Numerous people have visited over the years, through high school, college and into graduate school. Teachers, friends, family, co-workers, random people looking for bacon waffles and bul-gogi recipes, and thousands of web crawlers and spam-bots have all scoured the pages of here and hopefully have found what they were looking for.

There’s never been a clear vision. The name was a mash-up of my initials of course and the post-fix that was popular at the time, -tech.Â I really just wanted a cool place to mess around on the internet and call it my own. It followed an awesome site with a similar lack in vision, The Orange Couch (see pyktech history for further details).

Since 2002, a lot has happened. WTF has not lost popularity. I post infrequently, in spurts and not at all depending on the year. w00t has gained popularity. Facebook has taken over the social organization elements,Â of the web (amongst others).Â Friends are getting married, and my bro’s married. I’ve gained 30 lbs and probably grown ~2 inches (in height…). My dog Duke has grayed and become a four-legged-senior. Friends are graduating from college. My parents moved out of the house that I grew up in. I’ve met a lot of people, and have glimpsed the “real world” that awaits people post-high school and post-college.

Welp, thanks for the visits. Like I said years ago, I’ll keep this site up as long as I can pay the $40/year it costs to host this and all the other domains I own. My goal for this summer is to create some engaging content. Web applications have been driven into the ground as of late, with at least 3 versions of any web app you can think of, so I’m not planning on developing anything anytime soon.

In the meantime… keep reading. I’ll keep posting (at the very least, several times per year). Also, I’ll cut the cheese(iness) from here on out. Pun intended.

peace.