Hello, I am a livejournal. I think I will cancel and delete my existence soon.

I got a paper accepted. Yay! I made some minor revisions and we'll see what my adviser thinks and hopefully get it sent out again ( Read more... )

Hmmm ( Read more... )

Back from a 10 day stay in sunny south Florida. Bumped into a newlywed Foccer (Bri) at an airport lay over. Yay for bumping into obscure Gainesville people. I had stupidly booked a flight home with an extra lay over so I was essentially stoned (pheno-stoned?) having been up for so long, but it was a nice meeting ( Read more... )

Awhile ago I had downloaded a bunch of Hellblazers: 1-237 and a bunch of associated files. This is not an easy thing to do while politely borrowing the wireless signal of a nice neighbor named linksys and getting 1 bar. I read everything slowly over a long period of time. There have been two major changes in my life as a result of this ( Read more... )

The giant pan I bought is quite awesome in that I cook a ton of food together at once. The down side is that it clearly doesn't cook evenly. I can see the food in the center of the pan boiling while good a few inches to the outside isn't even melted. I just stir often. For 40 bucks...I'll take it ( Read more... )

Indiana Jones IV: lots of fanboys complaining but objectively as outrageous and silly as any of the others. What? Alien elements are unrealistic but a man who lives in the sky and melts your face if you drink from the wrong cup is reasonable? This irrational argument is, I guess, due to viewing the past movies through the hazy fog of nostalgia. A ( Read more... )

Got new glasses finally after about 2.5 years. I had an exam and a new prescription (as eye sight was worse) about a year ago but never got around to getting it filled. So, I went at least a year with a less than ideal prescription and these new lenses are about 3 steps lower than my last prescription (biggest jump ever). Putting them is ( Read more... )

Flat tire today. Got help from grad school friend Scott. Unlike most of the guys in the program, he has practical knowledge ( Read more... )

I did a random movie run to see Iron Man after leaving work today. I was pleasantly suprised that it didn't suck, despite maintaining a strong belief that it was going to suck as bad as Hulk and Daredevil ( Read more... )