LEX SPOON

PROFESSIONAL

Introduction

Job materials

• vita
• research statement
• teaching statement

Computing blog

Research

• package distribution
• scala bazaars
• type inference
• muswiki
• steiner trees

Publications

Hackery

Contact

PERSONAL

Introduction

Pictures

Personal blog

Recreation

• bridge
• chess
• computer games
• martial arts

Rants

Lex Spoon's Personal Blog

Hi friends, family, and any other folks dropping by to read about my day to day trivia. I am Lex Spoon, an American computer science researcher. This blog started when I spent a couple of years in Lausanne, Switzerland, and then I kept it up since then.

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• Zelda and the Phantom Hourglass (January 5, 2008)
• You know those Europeans (January 4, 2008)
• Bake Macaroni, Trial 1 (December 14, 2007)
• How many kisses? (December 3, 2007)
• Our cat has acne (November 29, 2007)
• A good reminder (October 27, 2007)
• Mixed up mail (October 13, 2007)
• Back in Atlanta (October 11, 2007)
• Having fun at JAOO '07 (September 24, 2007)
• Who is Enoch Root? (September 21, 2007)
• Good bye, apartment (September 17, 2007)
• Transformers on IMAX! (September 8, 2007)
• Last trip over (September 2, 2007)
• Pictures of the EPFL gang (August 13, 2007)
• Packing it all up (July 28, 2007)
• Better mail it certified (June 14, 2007)
• A heart to heart over the laundry (May 31, 2007)
• The Grandaddy longlegs are here! (May 28, 2007)
• Wedding photos via Bolot (May 13, 2007)
• I do (May 11, 2007)
• de Rham is a sleazy rental agent (April 12, 2007)
• La Poste is not USPS (March 7, 2007)
• MARTA in action! (February 28, 2007)
• Now I just need a flying car! (January 13, 2007)
• Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity (January 13, 2007)
• Christmas (December 30, 2006)
• Does the Warcraft story progress? (November 16, 2006)
• Alitalia only screws up the big stuff (November 13, 2006)
• Drink it or leave it! (October 13, 2006)
• The fastest bureaucrat ever (October 1, 2006)
• Something cheap in Switzerland! (September 21, 2006)
• I am the luckiest boy (September 5, 2006)
• Au revoir, French class (August 16, 2006)
• Bad advice inside Charles de Gaulle (July 25, 2006)
• Brian Sack at the Paris airport (July 21, 2006)
• Gambling is worse if it's on the Internet? (July 12, 2006)
• What are we supposed to cheer for? (June 19, 2006)
• Freshly installed coffee maker (June 5, 2006)
• A surprise in the mail (June 5, 2006)
• "Research in the United States" (May 6, 2006)
• Warcraft: the greatest challenge is logging in (May 3, 2006)
• New DVD formats with "copy" protection (April 30, 2006)
• Taxes for foreign residents (April 11, 2006)
• More Snow! (January 21, 2006)
• Nor Rain, Nor Snow, etc. (January 21, 2006)
• Broken Cingular Prepaid Card (January 3, 2006)
• Insurance Everywhere (December 13, 2005)
• Another Writer Visiting Switzerland (December 10, 2005)
• Boxes on Arrival (December 12, 2005)
• Mysterious Forces (December 12, 2005)
• Mobs at CDG Airport (December 12, 2005)
• The Sun (December 12, 2005)
• Bridges: A City on Multiple Levels (December 12, 2005)
• Not Getting Tea (November 26, 2005)
• "Vue du lac" (November 26, 2005)
• Snow! (November 26, 2005)
• Coffee Sizes (November 20, 2005)
• All Kinds of Languages (September 29, 2005)
• Bootstrapping with a Maze of Dependencies (October 28, 2005)
• First impressions (October 24, 2005)