I passed! If you want to hear more about it or read my proposal (which is long and boring), let me know.

I just found out a couple of days ago that Borders Books and Music is finally finishing going bankrupt by liquidating. I haven’t been to a Borders since moving to Cambridge other than one trip to buy Christmas cards last year, but on two different occasions it was my standard local bookstore for a number of years ( Read more... )

Yesterday, while I was in lab, I managed to watch Atlantis launch for the last time. Although, because my internet is really slow, I mostly just heard audio coverage of it and saw a few still frames of the launch. Sadly, it seems that the shuttle won’t be passing over Cambridge after dark at all during this mission, so although there are clear ( Read more... )

I spent the last couple of days making and writing-up a fantasy transit map for Washington, DC. In case you're interested, it's on my actual blog, here:

http://amiablebowfin.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/washington-dc-transit-fantasy-map/

Original post, with pretty picture of mountains, at ( Read more... )

I've been avoiding writing this letter for about a decade, because ( Read more... )

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A number of people have recently become aware that this LiveJournal exists. That said, I don't actually post to it much at all, as I have a blog at http://amiablebowfin.wordpress.com, which may interest you. I mostly use this as a way to be able to read friends-only LiveJournal ( Read more... )

Meme from http://www.livejournal.com/users/contrasedative/You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their lives, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute! Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating THAT PERSON? Since when?" And ( Read more... )

Assuming I didn't fail anything, I'm done with Tech.  Blog entry at <http://amiablebowfin.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/twelve-terms-three-summers-and-a-thousand-years/>.