Don't you hate it when you forget where you put something, and it's always in the very last place you look for it?

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http://www.airnewzealand.com/hot-deal-to-new-zealand

$486 after taxes+fees for round-trip to New Zealand from LAX/SFO, if you travel next week. Ah, to be a grad student again...

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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/biking-directions-added-to-google-maps.html !

SEPTA: From Classical Greek σηπτὰ (septa), neuter plural participle, "converted into excrement".

As in, βούλευματα σηπτὰ, "plans turned to shit".

An observation:

TikZ is to LaTeX as Hmong orthography is to the Latin alphabet ( Read more... )

Pirkei Avot 5:1

The world was created with ten utterances. What does this come to teach us? Certainly, it could have been created with a single utterance.

Also, on universality:

Avot 5:6 -- Ten things were created at twilight of Shabbat eve: ... the original tongs, for tongs are made with tongs.

( next-door neighbor out for a walk )

this bodes very well for bike adventures to come. i'm highly intrigued.

Today in research you're glad you're not doing:
Reed found more than five times as much coyote and bobcat scat in preserves with no public access than she did in the parks. Coyotes and bobcats are both native carnivores. She also found more scat from the native gray fox and the non-native red fox in unvisited areas, and more dog and cat droppings ( Read more... )