my life is freaking insanely amazing and if something tragic happened to me tomorrow i would have no right to complain. (although i would, of course.)

and no, nothing in particular happened, i'm just expressing an increasingly strong conviction. that has overflowed into my lj.

i've decided crazy is going to be the theme song for whatever it is ( Read more... )

i was in boston from 7/24 to 7/27 staying with anna, who lives nearby in newton and is working at the MIT BCS (brain&cogsci) lab this summer. also met up for lunch (laverde's subs... mm) with adeeti who's gene-sequence-synthesizing at codon but returns to saratoga next week (yay ( Read more... )

i went to new york city 7/20-7/23 and did lots of touristy things with christine (who kindly let me crash) and met up (too) briefly with ann for a B&N trip and dinner. the night i arrived, christine brought me to a lime group "office party," where we witnessed the CEO and others smoking pot in the pillow room, a huge inebriated crowd milling around ( Read more... )

so let's see... to recap. our family went to Japan 7/10-7/17 and took a tour of eastern Japan (mostly around Tokyo) with a Chinese tour group (with the best tour guide... EVER. Sophie, a lady from Taiwan who'd lived in Japan for 20 years and was hilarious, helpful, so so good. and she had a lovely laugh) we went to kamakura, odawara, asakusa, the ( Read more... )

I wrote this in a hurry, so I'm lj-cutting it (lack of pride in the writing :p) but I'm pretty sure there's a couple of Vienna Teng fans out there who'll find this a bit interesting... :)

( vienna teng essay for social dance ii )

serena caused me to read this today. it's the senior mag column megan/serena/and I wrote, two years ago...

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A very VERY beta web app, but it's interesting for about two seconds. :) Jason, bless his extremely cynical heart, wrote most of the 1200 lines of javascript, so only the design on this one is all mine.

http://www.kalvink.com/blocpark (warning: will sulk in corner if not given Firefox 1.5)


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The following is an excerpt from Stephen Colbert's commencement address at Knox College. I love the advice :)

http://www.knox.edu/x12547.xml (<= a link? yes, knox college has someone savvy in charge of the website... shocking ( Read more... )

from wendy: ( list of books i've read meme )

it's like google maps jr.! (i wish) look, it's all shiny and everything (at least in firefox)

http://kalvink.com/play/map.html
(new! now with keyboard shortcuts)


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