I had a little mid-exam crisis, and decided the blog was putting too much pressure on me. Then I realized it was in fact my exams putting the pressure. Duh.
So I’m back, but with renewed passion and clear direction, in so far as I’ve had that. I think the blog will now [...]
On blogger, one of the options if “notify weblogs.com”. I had no idea what that site was when I set this up, so I chose not to notify them. More precisely, I chose to accept the default Google had given me, and not to notify them. Had the checkbox been clicked, I [...]
I have this paper for a “class” I’m taking right now. The class details, with excruciating precision, the musical history of African American pop music of the 1960s. The class, taught by visiting professor Robert Fink is, without a doubt, the hippest class I’ve ever been a part of. Professor Fink makes [...]
I just watched the last two episodes of Season 5 of the West Wing. Although season 5 marks the beginning of the end for the show, I think it still has some sweet moments. This episode, though, called ‘Gaza’, was certainly not “sweet” in any sense of the word. An American delegation [...]
And that’s all there is to it. No not really. Science does produce some fun and most certainly useless things (see picture).
I don’t really care about those right now. I just read that right after reading about the Italian scientists who have found a (theoretical) way to give earthquake warnings of 15 [...]
Proposals for the newest Web 2.0 site seem to outnumber even horrible misuses of mathematical terms these days. In a recent email, I read the following paragraph.
Would you, your colleagues, or anyone under your tutelage like to become
part of a revolutionary team developing the next generation social and
professional networking/engineering web portal? Are you [...]
Here I am, blogging away on my easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor. I started (this morning) using Google’s page creator. I’ll let you see that site soon enough. I am a multi-daily user of Google Reader and Calendar. They fit my needs and I can deal with them being a little slower than [...]
I just had a phone interview for a summer internship. Man I suck on the phone. It’s almost funny, except that I really want this job. The interviewer, who had never seen my resume, did a great job of making me relaxed and comfortable, but I was still pretty shaky. He [...]
People that are Off-Putting
Do some people just force you not to listen to them. It’s pretty rare but does occasionally happen to me.
Some guy just came up and asked for a pen. I had one in my pocket but, and completely unconsciously, I decided I didn’t and told him so. i have no idea why, [...]