I'm changing emphasis. I'm not sure to what. I hope that it will still involve PL in some way, just from a less technical perspective as I am unable to continue working in the environment in which I was placed. My advisors were brilliant and obviously cared about their research, but we were utterly unable to communicate expectations in a functional, healthy way. I consistently attempted to recognize and acknowledge the ways in which I was at fault in the hopes that they would reciprocate, but instead I empowered them to continue engaging in habits that prevented us from effectively working together.
In the coming weeks, I will find a new name for this blog (fortunately the URL will remain the same) and use it as a place to discuss those facets of computing to which I am most drawn. My hope all along was to work with the human side of computing (by which I mean the ways in which we approach and understand the implementation of programs, not the ways in which we interact with existing programs), now I'm free to find a place to do that instead of spending my time lamely pounding away at fruitless projects that only serve to keep me in the good graces of men who make me feel primarily like cost-benefit proposition.
I do have one last concurrency-related project I want to finish up first, though -- the culmination of my senior project from Calvin. Look for that in the coming days.
