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Exercise experiment
I've decided to do a little exercise experiment on myself to determine whether I'm happier exercising first thing in the morning or last thing at night ( Read more... ) -
History of the most important drum loop
First listen to this wonderful song, Amen Brother, by the Winstons.
Then listen to this informative 18 minute recording of the history of the 6 second drum solo in the middle of Amen, Brother ( Read more... ) -
Sourdough Starter
While my parents were here my mother and I reminisced about my grandfather's sourdough bread. I remember not liking it much growing up, but since he passed away I've been missing it. So my mom's going to make some starter and she'll have bread for us at Christmas when we go down to their house. In the meantime, I made some starter of my own. ( Read more... ) -
Strange dreams
Last night I dreamt that I was living on a remote island (going to grad school, I think). I started seeing a lot of a particular alien race who wore full body armor that was a reddish pink color. They looked much like
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Easy Recipe
Inspired by this recipe from a great recipe blog, Simply Recipes, I made a one dish roast potatoes and kale with tilapia ( Read more... ) -
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Dinner was fennel almond tilapia with crispy kale and hibiscus-almond quinoa.
Tilapia
Marinate tilapia in olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, and fresh fennel overnight.
Take tilapia out of the marinade and coat with freshly ground almonds. Top with fennel sprigs from the marinade.
Bake at 350 F for 15 minutes.
Crispy KaleCoat kale in small amount ( Read more... ) -
The final list
I have my final list of schools. I pared it down from 14 to 6, a much better number ( Read more... ) -
Can't wait
Everyone has such happy posts about their grad/med school. It makes me giddy :). I can't wait.
I also feel really cool right now because I own a 1945 monograph from the very beginnings of my field. The last sentence in the introduction is:
While those whose interest lies only in the applications may wish to skip this material, the ( Read more... ) -
Interesting hue discrimination test
Neat color test
I scored 20. A perfect score is 0. My weak spots are in the blue-green section and the pink-purple section of the spectrum. I wonder how much effect monitor quality has on this test.
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Half Century
We did 65 miles today. The 55 miles of that which were part of the half century took us under 4.5 hours. The other 10 was getting there and getting home. I think our average speed was about 13, and my highest speed was about 31mph, for an extended ways. I'm getting better at peddling fast. I saw one other fixie rider. The weather was perfect ( Read more... )