Today on cops,

which my Swedish roommates watch with great amusement, a perp was asked if he had any warrants. He answered, "I don't think so." I mean, Herregud, how disorganized do you have to be?

There is this great blog from Russia that you should know about.

It is called drugoi, or maybe that is the name of the person that writes it.

I cannot say, for it is in Russian!

There have been some pretty good posts recently:


display of military might in an asian country



Vladimir Putin is apparently the baddest man in the world



somewhere, there was a house that was on fire, and it was extremeley photogenic for a moment




and for a change of pace, enjoy these pictures of an airport in norway


It about everything, although you'll notice that recurring themes include Russia, Norway, and weiner dogs. Also, I am almost certain that it will make you feel cool and international when you read it.

And now for another exciting episode of "What the fuck is Casey talking about?"

I just wrote the best quicksort in the history of time! Who cares that it can only exist in a highly inefficient garbage collected system with so much crazy hand-waving that we can only cross our fingers and silently entreat god that our nice Θ(n log n) algorithm is not overwhelmed by the torrential flood of fall-of-Rome-style extravagance in which we are awash!

import List

quicksort (pivot : rest) = quicksort lessThan ++ [pivot] ++ quicksort atLeast
 where
 (lessThan, atLeast) = partition (<  pivot) rest
quicksort [] = []

My life is hard. Such a hard life.

It just hit me how profoundly easy my life in Sweden is.

Every day of the week, I wake up at around 11:15. I shower and dress, and then cycle to a nation for lunch. A nation is like a fraternity, but better in every way. Lunch is 30kr ($4.50 US and falling) and includes coffee and desert. Then, if it's one of the two days a week that I have class, I bike there and listen to someone talk about vikings for a couple of hours.

There are parties 4 nights a week, cheap pinball in the math building, mentor group activities, and people at DF to waste time with.

Of course, things are going to change next week when Swedish classes resume, but probably not that much :-)