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2009 Vacation Wrap-up
The Good:Spending time with my sister in gorgeous Greensboro, North Carolina. 94 degrees and humid is incredibly superior to 109 degrees and dry, especially when your backyard is 3 acres of forest and a small creek ( Read more... ) -
Wow
Swiss Precision: Watches, Firearms, Drum Corps. -
Your skateboard is a vintage Natas? Oh yeah?
Well, mine is a Castañeda. That's right, it rocks an oil painted nude:
Alexxx Castañeda
I saw these, loved them, and they made me think of daphnep, so I thought I'd post. -
Headline of the day
Someone at Reuters is learning how to write headlines by reading Fark:
Vatican defends pope condoms stand, criticism mounts -
Watchmen.
I loved it. Movies that impact me in a heavily emotional way are few and far between, and this one felt like a 20-pound sledge to the back of my head ( Read more... ) -
One for my Ohio friends
A study performed in Columbus:
...Forms of self-injury include cutting of the skin, burning, bruising, hair pulling, breaking bones or swallowing toxic substances. In cases of self-embedding disorder, objects are used to puncture the skin or are embedded into the wound after cutting ( Read more... ) -
Things I learned how to do in 2008
1. A bit of calculus ( Read more... ) -
My mind.. is going...
Why yes, it IS a song in Czech about a bog monster that eats tourists from Prague, and can only be defeated with a cropduster. -
Fun with the DJIA and Excel
From 1970 to November 1994, taking a point sample every 5 years, the values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average can be plotted closely with this:
y = 10.389x^3 + 96.31x^2 - 479.94x + 1150
R^2 = 0.9938
After November 1994, the actual value of the average skyrockets off of the projected curve, not coming back to meet or cross it until, well, the ( Read more... )
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