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On Saturday, Kelley and I went to see Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds with Don and Laura. Afterward we all went to Mary's for dinner. At the end of dinner we got fortune cookies of course. I broke mine open and accidentally dropped half on the floor. No one at the table would let me eat the half that fell on the floor, and my rule is that ( Read more... ) -
There appear to be many clouds; but they quickly pass.
After posting last night, I headed to choirgeek89's house to pick her up to go see Fiddler on the Roof at Ashland High School. It was raining, and I was thinking about big numbers, so I decided to figure out how many raindrops fell in Boston yesterday. Assuming a maximum raindrop size of 5mm (after that, they fall apart) and a vaguely spherical raindrop, I ( Read more... ) -
There is beauty in simplicity.
I think it's amazing how we throw around data. I've got a huge bittorrent download going (17GB) and it was originally downloading at 3KB/s. I thought, "man, that's slow." But then I thought about how much data is 3000 bytes. It's not a huge amount of data, but for a human to give that much data to another human would take a lot longer than a ( Read more... ) -
Accept yourself.
This weekend was great. Saturday was Unity Games which went excellently. Many fun games were played.
Sunday was even better. gethen SMSed me on Thursday asking if I wanted to go to a Great Big Sea concert with her boyfriend's friend who was visiting from out of town. So I said yes, of course I would. We went to Northampton and the concert venue was ( Read more... ) -
How can you have a beautiful ending without making beautiful mistakes.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, I'll be calling a couple dances at the MIT contra. If you want to come, it's from 8 to 10:30 at the MIT student center in room 491.
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You will find great contentment in the daily, routine activities.
I think that may have just been my best parking job ever ( Read more... ) -
There is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Last night I was chatting with a friend about cross walks. She was pointing out that obeying cross walks is a part of the social contract. We can tell cars not to run red lights because we wait for the walk signal ( Read more... ) -
You begin to appreciate how important it is to share your personal beliefs.
Last night I went to a benefit concert for Darfur. It was a jazz concert. I particularly liked the second act. I even bought CDs with a couple of songs they did ( Read more... ) -
You will step on the soil of many countries.
So, if you're reading this, you probably know that I went to Canada ( Read more... ) -
Everyone has the right to choose one's own lifestyle.
Had some interesting ideas this morning, so I thought I'd post about them ( Read more... )