( Read more... )

There is a country called Burkina Faso?? Id never heard of this place before in my life. Its not even one of those new "stan" countries... its been called by the name since the 60s. I mean, it feels so weird to be missing an entire country.... id heard of all those other little countries in africa before, like ghana and togo and liberia.... but ( Read more... )

So I bought (or rather allowed my parents to buy) my plane tickets for christmas and here is the plan ( Read more... )

"Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP ( Read more... )

http://pics.livejournal.com/dorothymonkey/pic/0009f9k7/Read more... )

So me and yazz spent some time today discussing our rapidly approaching ten year high school reunions. He is planning on skipping his entirely while I am undecided. While I may be several states away from mine and likely broke from spending all my surplus money on new york trips and audio equipment, I do suffer from a good bit of vanity ( ( Read more... )

So ive been slightly alarmed that my life has been entering a little bit of a rut lately. Work has been refreshingly challenging and time consuming, and ive begun getting pretty comfortable with life in pittsburgh, but im having difficult time keeping myself occupied most weekday evenings. Ive begun falling back on passive entertainment... hours ( Read more... )

The other day me and J were looking over the Wiki for the original Pioneer Plaque (the golden tablet affixed to the pioneer deep space exploration satellite). Im not sure why... we get bored during the day. If any of you are unfamiliar with it, it basically provides a pulsar map indicating our galactic location (which a number of people ( Read more... )

Things have been going quite peachy here.. My place is almost completely finished other than the fact that I have yet to find a good dinner table. Im starting to get a much better feel of the town now that ive been out and about a lot more. Ive made it a point to go out at least every other night... ive been lucky in finding a good number of ( Read more... )

As a few of you know, im moving to Pittsburgh in probably a week and a half to attend the U Pitt Biomed PhD program. Since im going up with my truck and whatever I can fit in it, im selling the rest. If youve had your eye on an item of furniture in my possession, now is the time to act. Included are ( Read more... )