evan silberman’s homepage

This is my homepage.

The blog-looking thing that was at this URL before has been archived. As has my previous blog-looking thing.

“Divine aphasia” is a snippet of Lucky’s speech in Waiting for Godot.

I occasionally take photos. I am not that good at it.

I wrote a brief Jean-Paul Sartre/Justin Timberlake slashfic as a class assignment once. I know very little about Sartre and even less about Justin Timberlake.

Me and my friend Alex have a podcast called Hero Squad! that is about Arrested Development.

Contact

The single most reliable way to reach me is by email: my first name at this domain.

I am so over reverse chronological order

It is just stiff and leads to things like pagination and “like” buttons and who knows what all. I don't want new things to be right at the top where anyone can see them. No, my page will grow downward, perhaps monotonically. Perhaps sometimes I'll reorder things. But I finally have a web page that I can just type stuff into, after all manner of faffing about with weird homebrewed blog software. I don't want to ruin the groove by having to decide what should go above or below something else or whether things ought to be organized. With the exception of the slashfic, everything at the top of the page is sort of likely to be something some hypothetical visitor might want to know rapidly. So fine.

Computer science

My field, my muse, the object of my fascination. I am not a scientist, nor an engineer, am unlikely to ever be a really good mathematician, and sometimes I really don’t like computers. Explaining how this could be the case is like trying to explain how I can be a secular atheistic pig-eating Jew. In that I can explain, but that is sort of the whole project.

I got this book for Chanukah and an example in the chapter on NP-completeness intrigued me.

My pinboard bookmarks may be of interest. Sort of?