Yay! Now I can print out all the equilateral triangles I want.

This is brilliant. I assume the posters are somewhere in California:


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I'm off to Munich, Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin tomorrow! Well, not all four of them in one day, but rather, tomorrow begins my week-long trip through the aforementioned cities. I predict lots of Biergartens, Schnitzel, and (if I'm lucky) maybe even a Trachten in Austria. One never knows ( Read more... )

Anyone know who or what this thing is?


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I just had a most delectable cup of tea. The milk/tea ratio was just right, it was steeped for the right amount of time, and the temperature was perfect.

I should start making my tea more quantitatively from now on so that the results are reproducible.

I'm totally going to grow my own 1up mushroom: http://www.thinkgeek.com/

Oh, and what else is new? I'm doing buggerall at the FAL, spending most of the day skimming soil physics books and checking email. The excuse for our almost total lack of activity is that the weather is too . So far we've had frozen soil, wet soil, and a lack of soil (Juliane ( Read more... )

I saw this in the store the other day. It was so bizarre I had to try it:


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Someone's fighting the good fight:
Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone

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I had a look on livejournal just now and realized how fleißig you're all updating your journals, whereas I've turned into a sporadic lurker. I'm not promising to change that, necessarily, but here are the (slightly edited) comments from an email I sent to my family yesterday. They're too trivial to put in an official Katie-update but mildly ( Read more... )

I have written so many emails today.
So many.
That's all.