Man, you must be really looking forward to going back. You gonna to come back here? Are you going to miss the place? We’ll miss you. Dammit, just when I think I had it all sorted, I get that stab of last-minute repenting. I am looking forward to going back, but if you ask me why, I can’t really name it. It’s nebulous - there’s no one thing that would make me say, “that, that is the reason I’m going home.” ...

A brief interlude, in which I discuss something that has, frankly, blown my mind today. If you want to get a job in the finance world coming from IT, it would pay well to learn K, a programming language as concise as it is targeted at doing maths very damn well. To provide an example here, the following code: (!R)@&{&/x!/:2_!x}'!R is all that is necessary to list all the prime numbers between 1 and R, the argument to the function. Try doing that in your programming language of choice in even twice as many characters. From all I’ve heard, the interpreter is extremely fast as well ...

HK trip 95% confirmed - go on, what are your tips? What to see, what to do, what kind of weather, what food to eat, etc?

The many faces of Charlize Theron: Let’s compare and contrast that to, oh, any number of other starlets who look exactly the same in every movie. Changing your appearance that drastically has to be commitment to method acting if there ever was one. (accompanying article on smh)

Superbad: Teen comedy in the vein of American Pie, but with far better plot and acting. Actors almost look too young (they really supposed to be 18? Is that what 18 year olds act like, really?) Unfortunately doesn’t rise far above the genre, which doesn’t exactly help. ★★★