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Since the summer of 2008, this site has searched for a purpose. It has explored being a place for my programming experiments, my portfolio, and my weblog. It has faced being ignored for weeks and been tossed between hosts.

Let's see if this version will survive longer than the others.

My awesomely cool home-metropolitan-area!

Eh, I gotta keep my list of favorite bands to please that "omg, I have to tell everyone in the world about this song" urge.

I was accepted into Google's FUSE's program, where 100 rising-sophomores go to one of two Google campuses and hang for a few days.

The location of the fantastic Harvey Mudd College! Along with some nearby places..

I'm kinda jealous of folks going to college around Boston. It seems like a much more fun town than Claremont. Then again, I've only gone there during summer. I bet I wouldn't care for the winter-time freeziness.

Contrary to what Bard says, SoCal is not just San Diego. But it's still pretty cool.

For the summer of 2010, I'm doing CS Research at Harvey Mudd. My main project has become to develop a grading interface for graders, which features an inline commenting system for CS assignments written in JavaScript (and HTML/CSS of course) with a Python backend.

As much as I try, I'm not a gamer. Even so, I have a few games I've gotten myself to play for a few hours.

Must list the movies that are cool.

I love Google products. Here are some things I've figured out about them.

I went to the Big Island, mostly staying in Hilo.

LaTeX is a markup language that makes math homework and the like beautiful.

Grumble, grumble, psh, text editors are not for playing Tetris in.

So tasty! Python-based web framework.

JavaScript and I share initials, ya know? It never worked for me until I spent a summer writing a JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX-goodness webapp. We've moved passed our differences and are now good friends.

An open-source PHP/MySQL app built for Systers-dev for checking that their other project works after changes have been made. It's available on Launchpad here https://code.launchpad.net/~jessica-stringham/+junk/checklister

I've been vegan since February 2010. I've both fed myself with dining hall food and from dorm-room-prepared food. You may note that I'm still alive.

I like computers. Here are some things I've found about them.

Things happening to this here site.

svn is an open-source revision control system. Revision control systems allow multiple folk to be working on the same file at the same time, keeps track of file changes, and are very useful for when multiple people are working on one programming project.

ROFLCON 2 happened during Mudd and Harvard's reading week, so I visited Tom and we went to ROFLCON. There, we met the internet, including moot, Zach Weiner, and Randall Munroe.

Those snippets of codes that are useful to know.

How to do some random things on Mac

Grumble, grumble.

There are things on the interwebs that are cool.

I'm taking CS189, CS Practicum, where we get crazy ACM-esque problems about our CS Profs alter-ego (where they are all farmers for some reason), and throw programs together to solve them.

Teehee.

Python tips.

My other profiles

My linux adventures.

Went to the Southern California annual Linux Expo yesterday. Plenty of schwag and cool linux things. Today, I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu on my computer and am loving it.

Books are good.