Break is almost over, and I'm kind of glad.  All the free time I've had has gotten me into a fairly bad productivity funk where I can sit in front of my computer intending to work of my thesis for hours (days, really) at a time and get very, very little done.  When I have classes and work to schedule my life around again I know I will be more able ( Read more... )

Whenever I post in this journal, I wonder if it will be the last time ( Read more... )

Very cool article on the history of the past half century.

http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7218678

Half a month has elapsed since my last post here. On one level, this makes me feel a bit irresponsible. On another, I feel justified (if this can be any justification) because so little has happened in the past few weeks. I still have not received my grades officially, but I have heard from my calculus professor (of the class in which I was ( Read more... )

My calc and linear algebra classes are finally over, so this space might see some real updates in the near future. I'm pretty sure I got an A in linear algebra, but calculus I'm not so sure about. I may well have been number two in the class, but this dosn't help me when the best person in the class consistently did around 40 points better than ( Read more... )

I am back from Greece. I have actually been back for quite some time, but I haven't said anything about it here. I haven't said much of anything about anything here for quite some time... in Greece I was having trouble making this site work for some reason. Perhaps my silence here should change.

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Dawn is bound for the mysterious protoplanets Vesta and Ceres, where it will conduct extensive orbital surveys.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnCommunity/Sendname2asteroid/index_asteroid_blt.aspx

Aeneas
You are 90% Heroic!
Wow! You have the cunning, skill, and smarts to get yourself out of
burning ruins, score with tons of chicks (even if they go suicidal on
you), kill lots of baddies, and win an entire empire to rule, not to
mention your name in lights for the rest of ancient times. Kick ass!
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