My aunt is coming into Berkeley tonight. Where should I go to dinner with her? I'm looking for moderately priced places (like $10-$20 an entree).

Just got a notice from CMU Computing Services... my andrew account is set to expire on July 20. So I slipped under the radar for a year, but it's finally over. All good things must come to an end, I suppose.

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I went to the post office to get $.02 stamps today, since I still have a bunch of $.37 stamps, as it takes me about 2 years to go through a book of stamps. The machine only sold them in lots of 40, however, and it was not worth $.70 or so to wait in line and get them from a person, so now I have waaaaaaay more $.02 stamps than I can reasonably use ( Read more... )

Since posting about feminism and gender issues (and linking to Bitch PhD) seems to be the latest trend on my friends list, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon for a bit with a small rant. From the blog's intro post:

If you can join in and argue as among friends, colleagues, and peers, then by all means grab a cup of coffee or a beer and pull up a ( Read more... )

Some interesting facts at the Population Reference Bureau. I was talking to someone about this kind of thing recently (easwaran?) - we were rather far off on our estimate of the percentage of people ever born who are alive now (not that the estimate here is perfect, but it is at least based on something other than a random guess ( Read more... )

Top 20 Geek Books (bold the ones you've read)
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. 1984 -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K Dick (I would like to read this.)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation ( Read more... )

So I was just at the grocery store, and I went to pay with my card as usual, and it wasn't in my wallet. Fortunately, I had just enough cash on me to cover it. On the way home, I was worrying over "Well, I know they'll send me a new one, but that could take weeks and in the meantime, I now have no card and no cash, so I'll have to just spend no ( Read more... )

So, yesterday (Thursday) morning, I went running, just around the neighborhood. As my feet were pounding the concrete sidewalks, I thought, "Damn, my orthopedist would kill me if he saw me doing this". Later that day, just after leaving seminar, I came down wrong on my left foot at the bottom of a small flight of steps and twisted it pretty hard ( Read more... )

So last night, right before going to bed, I look at my phone, and see that I have a new voicemail from 10:30 pm. I think, "hmm, that's weird... it didn't ring". Plus, I never get calls at night since most people who call me are on the east coast. So I listen to it, and it takes me a second to recognize the voice... its me. I am listening to a ( Read more... )

A quick question for Berkeley people: how easy/hard is it to scrounge up a working monitor on campus normally? I ask because there are a ton (like, >50) monitors in the hall on the 6th floor of Evans right now that appear to be being thrown away (they are all piled haphazardly in a big metal bin), and I'm wondering if I should snag one now and ( Read more... )