For the second day in a row, Zone Alarm has been blocking dozens of attempts at my computer from 62.131.200.35. Smart WHOIS tells me it's some asshole company in the Netherlands. So fuck you, Planet Media Group NV ( Read more... )

Say hello to the future DeepThoughtII:

( You know you want one )

Today has not been my day ( Read more... )

I understand an aspect of Michael that I didn't understand earlier. The drive to train. The annoying, Dragonball-esque campaign to become stronger and better, usually with a ludicrous but necessary goal behind that drive ( Read more... )

Power went out over pretty much half of Blacksburg yesterday, beginning at 7:30pm and lasting at least past 1:30am, at which time I went to sleep. After a brief but exhaustive few hours of lab, I spent much of this afternoon sniffing random things in the fridge, checking the state of meltedness of a half-carton of ice cream I had, and eventually ( Read more... )

I went to Richmond this week to see Jefferson's plantation in Montecello. It was worth the drive. For the unenlightened, the view of the back of his house is the image on the back of the nickel. Strange, huh ( Read more... )

I was unsatisfied with the place Josh and I planned to rent mountain bikes from. Instead I went forward with the plans to go hiking today ( Read more... )

r0x0r!!!

I got it in with 9 seconds remaining. This fulfills my video RPG needs for the rest of college and pretty much into grad school.

w00t!

Life is good here in the back woods of Virginia ( Read more... )

The experiments I'm running here take about 12 hours to complete, and it is difficult, if not impossible, to stop the experiment at any point and still get worthwhile results ( Read more... )