So the other night, Jen and I were hanging out with most of the members of an a cappella group from CalTech, Fluid Dynamics.

For the rest of this story to have the impact it truly deserves, you need to take a moment to dwell on that. This is an a cappella group. From CalTech. This is the school upon which the movie "Real Genius" is based, and ( Read more... )

I've decided that I want an "Advanced search" feature for movie showtimes ( Read more... )

Jen's graduation present arrived today - a brand spankin' new Dell laptop for the business.  I'm keeping it clean, too - only legitimitely purchased software or legally downloaded freeware is being installed on it.  To that end, I just purchased Adobe Acrobat professional and Quickbooks Pro from an online student-discount store (savings of over $ ( Read more... )

There was a power outage on Friday.  It lasted about 12 seconds.  Reset all the clocks, turned off all the electronics.

Afterwards, the microwave and the computer network, neither of which had been working for a couple weeks, both operated fine.

Sometimes the traffic reports are just plain fun, even if the resulting traffic isn't:

Rose Av Just North of Central Av

Traffic Hazard

3:04 PM


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Happy Earth Day, everybody!

Happy second anniversary, Speedball and Silverlilly.

The good: Graduated from chiropractic college today. YAY ( Read more... )

As of about half an hour ago, I'm officially signed out for graduation. A week from Wednesday is graduation rehearsal, and Friday morning is the graduation itself... but as far as the school's concerned, I'm done with everything I need to do. The rest is just eleven days and forty-five minutes of biding my time. (Not that anybody's counting) =

• If you're emitting X-Rays, how do you prevent constant irradiation of everyone around you?
• Where do you put the film?
• How do you prevent central ray motion causing blurring?
• If you're receiving atmospheric X-Rays, how do you control what you see?
• If your eyes are essentially an X-Ray film, how do you prevent the rest of your body being overly ( Read more... )