Character list meme, nicked off of
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Following this, I've been thinking of ways to making the world a more compassionate place. I don't really know yet how, but I figured a good place to start would be the zero-order approximation - myself. So today I did my first shift volunteering at a soup kitchen (בית תמחוי), and will keep on doing shifts on a weekly basis. It's only a few hours ( Read more... )

On my way today from J-lem to Netanya I witnessed a car crash. It was just before a stop light, and a car on the lane to my left didn't manage to brake before hitting the car before it that slowed down for the red light. It was unnerving watching the cars smash together, the back part of the front car mashing into it, while the hood of the back car ( Read more... )

Got that one from
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[Warning: extreme nerdiness]
Here's an interesting piece of Internet history, documenting how the ":-)" was invented by Scott E. Fahlman on Sept. 19th, 1982, at a CS Bboard in CMU. Turns out they were looking for a way to mark joke-messages, after theoretical physics questions about mercury (and pigeons, and helium, oh my!) in falling elevators ( Read more... )

... Can be found here.

Had the Quantum Mechanics 2 exam. It was supposed to be 3.5 hours, ended up being 4.5 after halfway through the exam, the lecturer realized nobody's going to finish it on time. Trouble is - even after giving all that extra time, nobody had enough time to finish it. And it was only two questions ( Read more... )

Quantum mechanics 2 exam on Sunday. I don't know a single person that thinks they have a chance in hell to pass it (me included ( Read more... )

I asked Neil a question last night in a brief Q&A he had with the audience after an excellent reading he did, and he said it was a question no one has ever asked him before! I got applause and laughs from the audience! They like me! They really like me! :D ( Read more... )

You know the whole deal with witnessing a horrible car accident, and you don't really want to look at it but you can't help but doing so anyway? Well...

This is one of the scariest videos I've ever seen, and so I have to share it with you all:

(it's by a person called brevard)