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Humidifier; Zelda; Hello Kitty
I went to Target earlier today to try to find a personal humidifier, but I somehow ended up buying The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess instead. Oops. There goes my weekend week month.
(On a related note, I did almost get a Hello Kitty humidifier, and probably would have if I hadn't already ordered another room humidifer on amazon yesterday)
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Caltech wins basketball game
Until this story, I actually didn't even realize we had an NCAA basketball team.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/sports/ncaabasketball/08caltech.html?ref=ncaabasketball
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Blue Origin's logo
There's been quite a bit of hubbub in the space community about the recently-released photos and videos of a test launch by Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company started by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos.
http://public.blueorigin.com/index.html
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Dance classes this term
FYI, this term's dance classes at Caltech are starting up next week. I particularly recommend Hustle ( Read more... ) -
New year; Rose Parade
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CMU
For whatever reason I found this quote from a CMU Tartan article (found via Google Alerts) kind of weird-funny, in the sense that Caltech's low enrollment results in wacky percentages:
http://thetartan.org/2006/12/4/news/drop_black_enrollment
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No Wii today...
Bummer... my labmate and I attempted to procure a couple of Wiis today, to no avail. He had called a local Circuit City the day before, and they said they had 42 units. The store opens at 10am, and we showed up at around 7:45am. I ended up being #42 in line. I asked around, and it turned out that #1 had been there since 1am ( Read more... ) -
VSS abstracts
Huzzah, our abstracts for the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference are submitted. Despite it being my 3rd year of grad school, this is actually my first conference submission since starting my PhD. I seem to be on a roll now though, so hopefully I'll be firing off conference abstracts and journal papers in rapid succession. (^o ( Read more... ) -
What American accent do you have?
I guess this is pretty accurate for me, as I'm originally from Florida and am currently living in the Western US.
I'm often told though that there's something peculiar about my accent which is kind of hard to place. I remember once that somebody heard my accent and asked me if I was from the Netherlands, which confused me greatly.
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