While I was at the farmer's market, debating whether to go back to the hotel before swords, I saw a guy with a bible, and commented, "Good book ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I frequently take the train part of the way to work, riding my bike the rest of the way. If I took the train all the way from Cambridge to Acton, it would be $13.50/day, which comes out to roughly $270 (or a monthly pass for $235). I usually save some money by biking part of the way, but it still comes out to $10/day, or ( Read more... )

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I just had a 3-hour training, and I realized that my learning style is based on doing things backwards from the way a lot of people do: I won't learn the basics until after I have seen a practical application ( Read more... )

Why is it so true? The Onion is supposed to make up funny things that didn't actually happen. They're not supposed to be the most accurate coverage I've read of the situation in AfghanistanI kept hearing stories about how the fight in Afghanistan was hard, and that the Southwestern region was under Taliban control. It took The Onion to point out ( Read more... )

Cassie is trying to drive to my house so that we can go explore Boston together. Cassie, however, is the only person I know who can get lost even with a GPS system in her car. Not only this, but she was BETTER at navigating WITHOUT it.

Trying to get to Medford, she found herself in Somerville, got stressed out, and wound up in Quincy. GYAH!

I just heard on NPR that the average American needs to produce 1 ton of carbon per person per year in order to be sustainable, and that the average American is currently producing 20 tons of carbon per year. I just did one of those carbon calculators online, and it calculated that I am producing about 16 tons of carbon per year. This is less than ( Read more... )

Yesterday (Wednesday, local time) was a much better day. I think that Tuesday was a necessary learning experience: I can't just go out looking for new, because there's too much of it ( Read more... )

A lot of people complain that the republican congress under Bill Clinton did not ratify the Kyoto treaty, and George Bush just ignored it completely. Most of these people are idiots just parroting things that they have heard from their propaganda outlet of choice, but some of these people are intelligent human beings for whom I have a lot of ( Read more... )

After all of the adventures of getting to and from work yesterday in this snow (both the town in which I live and one of the towns I have to pass through to get to the train had canceled school due to conditions), I fell asleep around 9pm last night... and still woke up on my second alarm (6:05, five minutes after the first alarm), more tired than ( Read more... )