When we last left our hero, he was enjoying the pre-graduation festivities and talking in the third person. But then I vanished for a few weeks, only to surface again here, today, to bring you up to speed on my nocturnal activities. Today’s episode is a three-part hodgepodge update, with this section serving as a prologue. We’ve got a lot to cover, so don’t touch that dial.
The Batmobile
I bought a car! It’s a 2004 Acura RSX Type-S, black with ‘titanium’ leather seats, 6-speed manual transmission, 7 speaker 6-CD Bose surround sound, and all the other niceties that come with the Type-S. My friends all claim to like it, which is well and good. All I really care about is the fact that I can rev it up to 7900 RPMs and hit 60 mph in second gear while blasting music with the sunroof and windows down. Also: jockin’ the bitches and slappin’ the hoes. Of course, its only real purpose is to get me from Point A to Point B, but who says I shouldn’t be smiling the whole way?
The Batcave
I have a new apartment! I’m in Somers, NY renting out the basement of a house. I’ve got a private entrance near my parking spot on the driveway. There’s a mud-room, living room, full kitchen/dining area, bedroom, and full bathroom. It’s larger than I had expected, and I’m starting to feel like I don’t own enough stuff; this is precisely the opposite feeling I got by packing everything up and driving it down here. The rent I’m paying is a steal (they even included the cable modem as a gesture of good faith), and the family that lives in the rest of the house is so nice. They have two kids: Julie (4) and Thomas (2), both of whom think I’m better than sliced bread. I’ll be living here until December, working at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights. Please visit, there’s more than enough room.
The Bat…diploma
I have a CS degree from MIT! My pictures can be found here, and the MIT paper The Tech has some more. My mom had the camera, so there aren’t many pictures of me. The pictures my friends took don’t seem to be up yet. The diploma itself is a rather unimpressive piece of paper, but its sentimental value is through the roof. I might walk again next year, when I hope to get both an M.Eng. in EECS and a B.S. in Math. Perhaps the only lasting change I’ve noticed since graduation is that my brass rat is now flipped. There’s a big beaver on the bevel, and the expression goes, “While you’re an undergrad, the beaver shits on you; after you graduate, the beaver shits on the world.”
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June 9th, 2004 at 4:35 pm
Wheres the part where you destroy 10,000 men and save a maiden in distress…I guess thats just little stuff
But really…congrats on EVERYTHING
June 9th, 2004 at 5:24 pm
Can our hero destroy 10,000 men with merely a dismissive gesture and a furtive Perl script? Can he rescue the lovely and characteristically helpless damsel from violation at the hands of Microsoft Outlook? Find out! On the next exciting (yet geeky) episode of… Adam.
June 9th, 2004 at 5:30 pm
I wouldn’t compare you to Batman. You’re more like either Ace or Gary of the ambiguously gay duo. They also have their own vehicle; though it’s shaped like a penis. But seriously, congratulations on the car, the apartment, and of course graduation, Ace.
June 10th, 2004 at 10:02 am
I could throw in a joke about eat the beaver, but i won’t, that would be juvenile. I could also call you gay in a backhanded way, but that would also be juvenile, so I won’t call you a fag. Congratulations on becoming an adult, it’s not that much fun, go back to school! stay there!
June 10th, 2004 at 2:47 pm
Geoff, thank you for keeping the level of discourse where it belongs. Your careful avoidance of immature beaver jokes and arbitrary, homophobic, ad hominem attacks is greatly appreciated. The Jews tell me I became an adult when I was 13, but your congratulations are much appreciated, regardless. Anyway, my plans are precisely to stay in school until they run out of degrees to confer upon me. In conclusion: circle.
June 12th, 2004 at 8:08 pm
I think the graduation photos look much better than I thought they would. Of course, I wish I’d been less careful with the battery! As always, I enjoy your captions. Though, frankly, I liked Geoff’s above (below, or wherever they are now) even better! I’m certainly relieved there’s still someone in your life to keep you humble!
June 15th, 2004 at 7:20 am
Oh, don’t worry, I’ve got plenty of people to keep me humble. I call them “friends”.