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Ridin fixie
What's scary?
Your chain falling off the chainring on your bike.
What's scarier than scary?
Your chain falling off your fixie.
Other than that incident today, which was easily remedied, I've had my fixie for a year and still like it. I ride it almost every day, and still think it's fun. Slowing down can be hard on the knees, but it's fun to ( Read more... ) -
Trip to Holland!
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I am in Asheville for agthorr's wedding, and I am staying at a wonderful hostel. Some of you already know this (including the fabulous Chiara), but if you are traveling alone, hostels are impossible to beat on price, and you get to meet cool people too ( Read more... ) -
Life updates along with bread and circus
I have advanced to candidacy. Now there are only two things standing between me and graduation: dissertation proposal (12-16 pages) and dissertation (many many pages). I am proposING to finish the proposAL by the end of this term (quarter system can suck my ass with its stupid ending in mid June when everyone else has been out for a while already ( Read more... ) -
Commenting
Livejournal allows people to comment on the rss feeds people create, but the bummer is that those comments go into the bit bucket after a month or two. For example, pmb_ideas has comments from some people on it, and since I haven't been following the comments on the feed, just the comments posted at the original site, I have no idea how many comments I ( Read more... ) -
4 Beers, 3 Judges - Tasting on St Patrick's Day
pmbgoteamHistory Librarian Murphy'sBeamishMurphy's BeamishMurphy'sBeamish flat Guinnessflat Guinness flat Guinness Wexford Irish Cream Ale Wexford Irish Cream Ale - I thought it would be my consolation beerWexford Irish Cream Ale - English Beer
The flat Guinness was a suprise - it came from a can and had the nitro thingie, but it just didn't have the ( Read more... ) -
GUI Programming rant gone long (nerds only)
If given the choice between programming a WIMP graphical user interface and repeatedly punching yourself in the junk, I say go for the junk punching.
I'm trying to make a low budget one of these using a webcam and a laser pointer and a normal projector ( and it's not working and it's very frustrating ) -
What do you want from a teacher?
Nowadays, there is so much information available at everyone's fingertips that teachers giving students facts is a dead and dying model of education. I'm pretty sure that having a teacher is essential to the learning process, but the contents of a lecture/class/lab/whatever now have to be ... what? Certainly different in some way - slowly dealing ( Read more... ) -
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Y'know, we could have just given every Iraqi citizen $37 336.58 and we'd still be ahead by 3,000 american lives and 500,000 iraqi lives. A trillion is a very large number. I bet that, for a flat rate of 37k per capita, we could have gotten the entire Iraqi army to overthrow Saddam all on their own ( Read more... )