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Oh. My. God.
On the off chance that you haven't seen this as it blasts its way across the net, I give you "Extreme Sheep LED Art:"
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Recursion
You may or may not know that I work for a Very Large University here in the land of lakes, in the department that manages classrooms and student services. We are constantly looking at research and new ideas about learning, and have this video linked on our departmental website.
A coworker this afternoon forwarded this, another (earlier) video by ( Read more... ) -
Holy red tape
So I was looking at the requirements for my certification test, and discovered that not only do I need detailed records of how many hours I worked where doing what, I need THREE letters of reference. I also need official transcripts, but I don't know if that means from both Mac and UMN, or just UMN. Way to make it complicated, guys. -
The difference
Since it was called so early, I have been watching the speeches. I was very impressed by McCain's concession speech. He was far more gracious than I ever expected him to be, which made me feel a little better about him still being part of the US Senate ( Read more... ) -
Progress, be it ever so slowly
Those of you familiar with our house and our plans for changing it will be impressed: we've finally removed the chimney down to the first floor. The roofers took off the bit outside the house when we had the new shingles put on, and mhuot and I took it down to the floor in our room yesterday. It was surprisingly easy to break it apart, and we were ( Read more... ) -
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
So I'm taking this class in Construction Estimating. Pretty much just for my own knowledge, not aiming for anything in particular. We had a homework exercise due today that was basically "Given scenario X, should your company submit a bid for project Y?" The instructor took a poll of people's answers, and the result amused me greatly ( Read more... ) -
Car!
Car is finally home! mhuot has a picture Still deciding if a name is required or not. We have been referring to "her," which implies that we do need a name, but inspiration has not struck. -
birthday!
Happy birthday, mnfiddledragon! -
Which way did it go?
So I guess I missed August entirely. It's not totally surprising, given how crazy the last couple of weeks were at work, but clearly I should be paying slightly more attention. It's somehow harder to recognize August when I don't have the Festival to ram the point home every weekend ( Read more... )