Short of blogging about my son, I figured I would use this blog as a journal to archive the key happenings around my family..
Jay has been blowing through books -
::June 20th - he completed Along came Galileo
::June 30th - he started on Blaise Pascal
:: continuing to read the World History Atlas book.

He also completed Singapore Math 2A on June 30th and started in Math 2B.

He is making $$ reading books from Half Price Books.

Summer has made things slower around here..we try to do most of the outside chores/exercies before its 10am and stay indoors till about 6pm.
Lately, there have been few neighbors who have installed pools that they purchased from Walmart to keep their kids cool, and have invited us over. So the kids have been shooting breeze till about 8 hanging around with their new found buddies in the pool.
Ace and Stryker (our new pups) are getting acclimated and taking charge of their environment. They are worse than babies when it comes to attention grabbing - especially if one of them is being played with over the other. Overall they have been very well behaved and learned the ropes of being with a family fast. Pics will follow…
This weekend we are having a colleague of mine from Japan come over to educate the boys on Japan. Stef is planning on making Sushi and Indian.

We finally broke down and managed to get two puppies (lab+Pyrenees mix). They are about 8+ weeks old and both boys. Roh named the alpha male STRYKER and named the other one ACE. I think the name and personalities suit them both.
Stef has been training them starting yesterday. Will have pics shortly..

I am not dead..just been super busy with school, family, work, travel and writing. I have gotten few requests via emails and few via blog comments to start posting. Its good to know I am missed in this cyber world
Just a recap on our month-

- We just got back from Roh’s birthday at NASA Space camp in Houston. Where he got be in the Jedi training and kick some stormtoppers butt. The other two were in more of a grounded camp for the day, while we spoiled Roh.

- My Spring semester ended with one final and paper. Overall I did OK and am now on a summer course, which is taking more time than I would like to give it - but has been worth every bit.

- Travel has been sucky due to cancelled flights, light schedules, weather and overall AA bs. I started using Southwest as they seem more reliable out of Austin.

- Writing is going very slow. I am on the OOPSLA committe and would like to do a workshop on REST, but havent found time to pen the paper.

- I have gotten offers to go to Korea, India, Turkey and Europe on projects for IBM, but due to class and family obligations have said no, so far.

Summer is going fast and I would like to chill more with the fam..will tell you how that goes.

-peace

News from the International Collegiate Programming Contest - here. Other than MIT being #2, its various universities and schools from the former USSR - a l l  t h e   w a y!!

University of Waterloo chooses to use Scheme in Fall 08 for first year CS undergrads instead of Java. More US schools should follow suit.

There is hope atlast, to maintain the science and art in CS instead of just making it another trade.

XKCD has done it again..Although I am not a big Mythbusters fan, I really lol’d at the punch line…

History lesson, par excellence by John McCarthy, the founder of LISP (one of the first functional languages), delivered via an interview at InfoQ.

This semester is kicking my ass - 1 hard class in formal methods, starting my research and starting to be regular at Meyers lab meetings. In addition to job, family etc.

Saturdays always are spent pondering on Physics after attending the lectures in Aggie land - Saturday Morning Physics Group.

I am also starting to think about UI design problems..not that I need more stuff, but it somehow fits with my work (some crimes need justification

Some updates when I make significant progress…

I am stilling thinking about a lot of problems and not making any progress..hence no updates..