that monte carlo simulation code that i'm supposed to be writing is due on friday, but moogly-oogly said "turn it in before the 17th." so evan, greg, and i got together to work on it for the first time today.

i was kinda hoping they'd have some stuff done by the time i got back, but they hadn't looked at it any more than i did.

i'm random number guy. my part of the whole thing is to come up with a good way to get "truly" random numbers for our simulation. it's harder than it sounds.

my other big project, the turbulent channel flow simulation for 13.023, is still stalled because of a non-compiling hydro solver. molvig's all pissed because his code doesn't compile on my (new) software, so he wants me to downgrade my C++ to a version 2 generations back so we're on the same page. ugh.

so i got the new (old) CD from him today and was going to spend tonight working on it.

but instead i spent from 10:00pm to 2:00am working on an itinerary for europe. i can't really get to burningman anymore, so i'm going to stay in europe after the ICPS conference and wander around for a couple weeks.

i figure i'll try to get from helsinki to dublin in two weeks, visiting a major city or two each day. this should include stockholm, oslo, copenhagen, amsterdam, brussels, london, edinburgh, glasgow, holyhead, and dublin. aside from london, i haven't been to any of these places before. and it'll be 9 new countries for me (for a total of 16).

of course, thinking about this was far more exciting than reinstalling old versions of microsoft visual C++.