MIT blogger Joonho K. '20

summer tidbits by Joonho K. '20

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01 i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i have no idea what's happening in august. 02 here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices are airports, and the edges are flights between them. i made a vague attempt at making the points geographically accurate. 03 if i'm at work on my macbook, this is the top bar / desktop summary i would see in 'mission control' (swipe up with three fingers on the trackpad). i like to have chrome and the terminal on one split screen, and use fullscreen sublime text with two split panes for coding. 04 i've been interested in <em>yojijukugo</em> (四字熟語, four-character compound words) lately. they're (usually idiomatic) phrases that are exactly four chinese characters long and often have really interesting meanings. here are some i liked while looking at https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/idiom/. from top to bottom: 反面教師 <em>hanmenkyoushi</em> (bad example from which one can learn, good example of what not to do), 温故知新 <em>onkochishin </em>(developing new ideas based on study of the past), 疑心暗鬼 <em>gishinanki</em> ('jumping at shadows' - once you suspect something, everything else will seem suspicious), 慇懃無礼 <em>inginburei</em> (hypocritical courtesy - being so overly polite that it's seen as rude), 森羅万象 <em>shinrabanshou</em> (everything that exists in the universe) 05 some short-term and long-term goals i have in apple's reminders app. i said i would run more, but i honestly haven't been faithful to it and i really need to. >< i went to a smash tournament for the first time ever a few weeks ago in seattle, and i went to another one the week after that! ...i didn't win a single match. :( but it was still fun! and my goal is to win just one match one day... 06 this is a faithful yet heavily compressed representation of my chrome history on my work computer. mostly, i've been working with python, but also learning to use a lot of other things like AWS and test libraries and jenkins and the concept of a workflow.
  1. i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i have no idea what's happening in august.⁠ ↑
  2. here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices are airports, and the edges are flights between them. i made a vague attempt at making the points geographically accurate.⁠ ↑
  3. if i'm at work on my macbook, this is the top bar / desktop summary i would see in 'mission control' (swipe up with three fingers on the trackpad). i like to have chrome and the terminal on one split screen, and use fullscreen sublime text with two split panes for coding.⁠ ↑
  4. i've been interested in yojijukugo (四字熟語, four-character compound words) lately. they're (usually idiomatic) phrases that are exactly four chinese characters long and often have really interesting meanings. here are some i liked while looking at https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/idiom/. from top to bottom: 反面教師 hanmenkyoushi (bad example from which one can learn, good example of what not to do), 温故知新 onkochishin (developing new ideas based on study of the past), 疑心暗鬼 gishinanki ('jumping at shadows' - once you suspect something, everything else will seem suspicious), 慇懃無礼 inginburei (hypocritical courtesy - being so overly polite that it's seen as rude), 森羅万象 shinrabanshou (everything that exists in the universe)⁠ ↑
  5. some short-term and long-term goals i have in apple's reminders app. i said i would run more, but i honestly haven't been faithful to it and i really need to. >< i went to a smash tournament for the first time ever a few weeks ago in seattle, and i went to another one the week after that! ...i didn't win a single match. :( but it was still fun! and my goal is to win just one match one day...⁠ ↑
  6. this is a faithful yet heavily compressed representation of my chrome history on my work computer. mostly, i've been working with python, but also learning to use a lot of other things like AWS and test libraries and jenkins and the concept of a workflow.⁠ ↑