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Happy birthday
I haven't been doing the birthday shout-outs this year, but I think this one deserves a mention. He's been with me through thick and thin, and without him, I just wouldn't be here today. Happy birthday, me ( Read more... ) -
Handle this song with care
My current momentary addiction is the song "Handle me with care" by the Travelling Wilburys. Holy mackerel that's such a good song. And it has such a great video clip too. I remember seeing this song when I was a kid and remembering it completely differently ( Read more... ) -
I hate stative verbs
So long story short, a friend and I are going to have a Mills and Boon battle. She reckons she can write trashy Mills and Boon better than I can. I defied such an assertion and so the battle's on ( Read more... ) -
It's evolution, baby!
You know what I'd like to hear? A massive compilation of music chronicling the musical trends throughout the 20th century, linked by explanations of how one trend influenced the next. I believe that something like this (correctly done) would be culturally important. And cool ( Read more... ) -
My life is pretty much complete
First, I was mentioned by name on Wikipedia.
Now I have two books on Amazon that have me as an author in some capacity.
What next? A reference to me in a They Might Be Giants song? A "Thanks to" in the liner notes of a Tegan and Sara album? Name-checked by Haruki Murakami? Have my thesis referenced by Marcus du Sautoy? Have a t-shirt made with a ( Read more... ) -
The only time my brother referred to himself as "Baby Bro"
I got an email and then later a call from my brother. Turns out his girlfriend is pregnant and that I might be an uncle in November. I'm very glad for him, but I just don't know what to think about this with respect to my position. I was kinda happy being in stasis forever. Now our family is progressing. And me without a girlfriend... I feel like I ( Read more... ) -
Google Think
So I've been thinking about Google: what it does, how it does it, and limitations of their approach. One question that is quite intriguing to me is the following scenario:
Suppose a user gives Google some information (eg search terms, a file). If Google was allowed to take some time (a minute, an hour, a day even), what sort of services could it ( Read more... ) -
Achievements
Yesterday was a day of little achievements. I played basketball, did some good work at the factory, thought up a bunch of good ideas for a project of mine, and programmed one of the last bits I needed to do in order to make corrections for my PhD thesis. The program has some small bugs which I'd like to sort out later tonight. Fingers crossed I'll ( Read more... ) -
The plunge and websites
Today we threw a friend of mine out of a plane. For his birthday. Oh, and he had a parachute on :) He's a bit of an adrenaline junkie so he was psyched to get a tandem skydiving voucher for his birthday from the grad group ( Read more... )