Kickstarter is pretty cool. It's a site for the distributed financing of small projects. Pledges are collected if and only if the project is fully funded, so there's less risk of committing money to a project that will never have enough to get off the ground. The project creators can also specify different rewards for different levels of support ( Read more... )

Please grant some of my fellow Olin students a moment of your time ( Read more... )

While in Japan, I have often had the experience of walking into a music store and wanting to buy some Japanese music, but having no idea what to buy. (Not quite as often as my experience of walking into Japanese bookstores and feeling very sad that I'm illiterate, but still.) So, do any of my LJ friends have Japanese bands to recommend? What's

I finished another book today, which means I'm almost out of reading material. Thus, I've updated my Amazon wishlist to ship to my Japan address. Buy me books. (Yes, I do realize I could buy myself books from Amazon... but I never object to other people buying me books as well ( Read more... )

So, I'd like to say sorry to all my friends who just got home yesterday because that's when I left town. The trip has been pretty good, though. We stayed at a motel where the non-smoking room was actually not smoky (which is a real relief... usually I sleep in a "non-smoking" room, and, when I wake up, just the smoke on my clothes is enough to ( Read more... )

A bunch of Oliners went to see "Saw". We saw "Saw". And it was excellent, but very disturbing. And when I say very, I really mean it. O_o

Also, I've become involved in a legal pyramid scheme. Some Olin students got free iPods from another incarnation of the same thing, as Olin is big and organized enough to make it pay off for some people. ( ( Read more... )

Today was an easy day. The only class I had was Design Nature, where we continued to work with Solid Works (a CAD design program that allows you to partially define models so you can see them being created as you build them (unlike many professional design programs, where a model must be fully defined before it is rendered)). For homework, we ( Read more... )