Jeff Terrell
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

jsterrel AT cs.unc.edu
(919) 962-1791 (office)

Diversions

Every grad student has favorite ways to kill time on the Internet. Usually, they are happy to share their time wasting techniques with you--unless you are their advisor. Here are some of mine:

Piled Higher & Deeper

Have you ever heard that Dilbert isn't really funny until you spend time in industry? Well, the same might be true of Ph.D. comics. Then again, many of the jokes hit kind of close to home.

Slashdot.org

This site bills itself as "News for nerds, stuff that matters". What it doesn't say is that the stories (and forums) are usually quite biased towards Linux, open source, intellectual freedom, and that sort of thing. (I usually don't read the forums unless I'm really wasting time!) Other good tech news sites include Ars Technica and The Register.

SI.com NCAA Basketball

As many have prophesied, after moving to North Carolina, I am now a college basketball fan. As such, I often spend a lot of time checking the latest results and ratings.

Analog Science Fiction

There are plenty sources of good sci-fi on the Internet. This is one. (See especially the Nebula nominees.) Others include Baen's Free Library and Asimov's Science Fiction.