Imamiland

It’s no secret for the people around me that I am a big fan of the BBC show Doctor Who. How I got into it and how it slowly took over my life is something left for a different time. Today though, I want to talk about a stray thought that I had that I could only really see by drawing a contrast with a monster1 from the show. The monster in question here are the Weeping Angels.

Recently, in a meeting with our collaborators, I was asked to provide my professional opinion on some code that they had shared with us. I had reviewed that code already and my first impression of it was that it was a bit inefficient and confusing. At that point, I could have gone into the details of how the code was inefficient in parts, or how it had variables with non-descriptive names, or how it was not very well commented.

A new direction for my blog Hello, dear readers. It has been a while since I last created a post, and I wanted to take a moment to explain why and share my plans for the future. Life Happens My absence has a lot of reasons, not the least of which are my commitments to my family and my ongoing PhD studies. Balancing these responsibilities with writing can be challenging, and I appreciate your understanding.

Moana is a 2016 Disney movie that tells the story of the eponymous character and her journey of self-discovery. Being A Disney movie, and specifically a post-Frozen Disney movie, it is not surprising that the movie has a strong female protagonist. The other strength of this movie is of course, the fantastic soundtrack scored by Lin-Manuel Miranda. However, I’m not here to review the entire movie. That has been done over and over and over again by scores of people, from amateurs to professionals.

Alice in Wonderland When I was about 6, my dad bought me a Priory Classics edition of Alice in Wonderland. Buying that with my dad is one of my favorite memories. The book, that I had picker rather randomly, ended up being one of my favorites. I read it over and over again, and I still have it. In the book, the first character that you encounter from Wonderland is a little white Rabbit.

First Post One of the annoying, but customary, things to do when you create a new git repository is to make the First Commit. This commit is usually the one that starts the project and has the uninformational commit message of “First Commit”. This post is my “First Commit” to this blog. It is the first post, and as such, it is a bit of a placeholder. I will be adding more posts soon, and I hope that you will find them interesting.