Chrome - Google made a browser, and I like it better than Safari or Firefox. It is fantastic (though windows only).

"Things you woudn't know if we didn't blog incessantly" - My favorite blog. Some old guy spends all day on the internet, learning fascinating trivia and sharing it.

TED - I am sure most of you know TED, but I still love it ( Read more... )

The ship I am on will sail April 14 from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I leave State College, PA on April 11 and return May 24. I will also stop by the bay area for a while and Portland for a week ( Read more... )

Ten years ago today (almost to the minute) I got a flat tire on the way to school. I changed it on the side of the freeway while wearing a leprechaun suit. Putting the spare tire on, I noticed that it smelled EXACTLY like my girlfriend.

I love it when people explain math clearly, like in this Wired article.

To understand the mathematics of correlation better, ( Read more... )

Jamie and I just got back from a week in St. Croix with Durban and his family. We got scuba certified, toured a rum factory and had tons of fun. Here are the pictures to prove it. Days were spent learning scuba, sailing, or lazing by the pool reading a book. Nights were for games, great food and lots of rum and wine. Great trip ( Read more... )

"I must take issue with the writer's use of the phrase "semi-tumescent." It is a pleonasm, as "tumescent" is used to describe something that is incompletely swollen, just as an adolescent is not quite an adult, and something obsolescent is not quite obsolete. Tumescent's analogous partner is tumid."

I was looking up the stats for my house's website (Morningwood Estate), and you guys (or whoever looks at the site) seem to hate Internet Explorer. Of the last 100 people who came by the site:

65 Firefox
15 Safari
10 MS Internet Explorer
3 Camino
2 Netscape
1 Chrome
1 iPhone
1 Mozilla
1 Opera
1 Unknown

I have weird friends. Who runs Netscape?

I need a new photo sharing website. Flickr's interface has been bothering me since I signed up, but now they tell me that I can only have 200 photos or I need to pay.

Fuck you Yahoo!

Has anyone used Picasa for mapping photos? Other sites?

Lots of new content up at our house's website:

www.morningwoodestate.com

including an invite to New Years 2009 at Morningwood Estate. You should come.

I have also been putting lots more pictures up on flickr, including my recent (awesome) trips to the bay area, Miami and San Diego.

I am in charge of organizing a couple of student outings for 50-100 grad students in Portland in May 18-22 of 2009. We will be staying at the Hilton, sort of between Portland State University and the Galleria Shopping Center ( Read more... )