Some interesting cultural differences came up at a Halloween party I was at last night: A friend of a friend (just came over to America from South Korea about 2 months ago, and who is now a grad student at UCLA) commented “I’ve gone to the library to study a couple times, and I’ve noticed […]
Monthly Archives: October 2004
Cultural Differences, Work, and Play
31-Oct-04Ramayani
31-Oct-04Ramayani has the best Indonesian food in Los Angeles About 10 minutes south of UCLA on westwood. Atmosphere semi-casual; dinner entrees ~10-12; awesome desserts; very authentic. Ramayani Westwood 310-477-3315 1777 Westwood Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90024-5607
Python?
28-Oct-04It’s time for the Big Code Port. Moving away from Java and into something else more easily linked in with our existing project (UnrealScript and Python). Options were C,C++,Python,C#. C++ is an old standby, but Python shows intriguing promise. The downside is I don’t know it yet, but the upside is that it’s one of […]
back
16-Oct-04Back from Ft. Bragg, NC. Was gone this last week administering an evaluation of our Tactical Language Training System to some soldiers (U.S. Army) there. Honestly, I was quite impressed with the patience and discipline of the soldiers–they sat through 4 days, 6 hours a day, of buggy language-teaching software, and gave us over 1G […]