Daniel D. Leeds
Recreation
Interesting Course Web Sites:
(Mostly, classes I have taken or am taking now)
Interesting Engineering/Science-type Web Sites:
Hobbies:
Languages
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Mandarin
- Spanish
Barely know anything about...
- Greek
- Japanese
- Hindi (... Devanagari)
- Russian
Learning more using...
Theology
Music (Guitar)
Reading
Television (perhaps not a hobby, per se...)
Accruing University E-mail Addresses (most of which I do not check)
- @andrew.cmu
- @ri.cmu
- @cnbc.cmu
- @alum.mit
- @mit (now defunct :.( )
- @csail.mit
- @pitt (University of Pittsburgh)
- @venezia.rockefeller.edu (almost certainly defunct)
- @Post.hunter.cuny.edu (really should be defunct)
Quotes:
- So I lean on a wall and handprints appear on my document! --argument against pervasive computing
- When was the last time you stopped to enjoy a crosswalk? / Um, never. / You're not missing much. --Conversation between me and Giovanni
- Good night. Go dream of programming sheep. --Alice
- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand. --Prof. Leiserson
- Pears? I want them to come in equal and opposite apples. --Ashley in 8.01 (Physics) lecture
- And they'll be eternally grateful...at least for a while. --Faraaz
- Actually, this doesn't approach infinity, it goes to about six. --Prof. Miller
- I don't know what the big deal about a thesis is. I've written so many of them. They take two to three lines and then I go on with the rest of my paper.
- No party is complete without the Fourier Transform.
- You should join the International Misanthropes Society. It's great, we never meet. (later...) We'd hate to have you.
- When I think zest, I think Daniel Leeds.
- Warning: Nerds at Play --sign posted at my MIT lab
- Life is like a box of hand grenades. You never know when one is going to blow up. --Disgruntled MIT student in mid-semester
- I sometimes read it [War and Peace] three times before breakfast. --MIT dorm-mate
- Will you be upset if I leave?/I'll cry forever./Okay, goodbye.
- If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. --Fortune cookie
- Oh, I learned what CVS stands for recently. / "Concurrent Versioning System?" --Conversation while passing by a CVS drug store.
- Easier exclaimed than done.
- I do not assert G-d is on our side. I pray that we are on G-d's side. --Kerry's speech at Democratic convention 2004, probably slightly misquoted