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OK, time for an update - it's been awhile. Just got back to school yesterday from spring break. My family, parents and both brothers, went to mexico for the week and had a really nice time. We rented motorscooters and tooted ooll aroound toown, fooling prootty cool. I proclaim that motorscootering is the best form of transportation I have yet ( Read more... )

PANDORAThis is a neat place - it's a spinoff thingy of the music genome project. You type in an artist or song name that you like and it makes a "radio station" for you that plays other, similar music that you might like. Gives the artist/ song names and everything. Tell it if you like the recommendations and it will get better at making them. ( Read more... )

oh my god this is so cool. and russian.

RUSSIAN CLIMBING

I don't want a pickle
Just wanna ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't wanna die
I Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

…as a technique fell by the wayside…interpolation was discussed…you’d crash and burn, because you’re making a mistake…if you made the slightest mistake it’d propagate through…did you ever hear of the phrase lookup table?...make a giant table of functions…how does your pocket calculator do sines and cosines…the problem is, you need to get analytic ( Read more... )

This story was in the back of my Russian book under the title: "Anecdotes from Nikulin ( Read more... )

OK guys, things are unraveling. I need some advice. Tell me what I should do with my life (for the next three years, at least). Right now, I'm on my way to a physics degree. I've got a year and a half racked up in this direction. The question is - does physics really make me happy? I can't even figure this one out myself. I'm not sure ( Read more... )

A member of my family, the most amazing and wonderful dog that i've ever known, died this morning. I though some of you might want to know.


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