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Thu, Oct 5: 9:00AM BOS -> 12:17PM LAX (UA 47) 4:15PM LAX -> 5:36PM OAK (UA 6505)

Little freedom is the ability to do whatever you want.

Big freedom is the ability to do exactly what you want.

One comes from irresponsibility; the other from total responsibility.

Here is a riddle I thought of in Reno, after Burning Man. I thought of the riddle before I thought of an answer. I wonder if you will think of the same answer ( Read more... )

Join Orkut. It's like Friendster, except (sort of) by Google. I would be happy to invite anyone who has not already been deluged by invitations ( Read more... )

I think I made a lot of progress tonight.

The thing that helped the most? A DVD.

There are always more fish.

As all of you probably know, my friend Matt DeBergalis is running for Cambridge City Council this Tuesday. At 27, he's the youngest of the candidates, and the first candidate in a long while to focus on the interests of people my age in an election where the average voter is 55 years old. He wants to let restaurants stay open later, protect and ( Read more... )

Also. My buddy and main man deberg is running for Cambridge City Council. You should all join electdeberg so you can see what we're up to.

I'll have a lot more to say about this in a few days, when I'm done hacking on the campaign website.

I have been reading math books lately.

The derivation of the formula for the nth Fibonacci number using eigenvectors seems like just about the coolest thing ever right now.

Last night, walking home through a particularly shady part of Central Square, I was jumped by a Zen master! He waved a knife at me and said, "I will ask you a question. If you give an unsatisfactory answer, I will stab you four times in the chest. If you give a satisfactory answer, I will still stab you four times in the chest. However, if you do ( Read more... )