I went with Abe Graber and Jessica Karnell to the Yacht Club bar to see the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. They were pretty awesome, with a three high energy dance tunes then two new orleans favorites to start off the concert. It was a great time! One odd and memorable thing did happen though...some guy tried to sell me and abe some acid. Gotta love ( Read more... )

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There's a moment...just a moment...after a good workout where you look at yourself and think "Yeah...I am the best. I worked hard, and look now. I'm faster and stronger than everybody else, because I was out training when they were at home on the couch."

Damnit I love that feeling.

During my vacation with my dad, I did a lot of sailing (4+ hours a day). It was almost all small boats (mostly a laser and two different catamarans). I'm going to write down everything I remember about sailing so that I'll remember next summer ( Read more... )

Good men must die, but death can not kill their names.
-Proverb

This kinda sums up my thoughts for the night, and it takes up much less space then me trying to explain.

I've been back from Colorado for less than 24 hours. What am I doing? PACKING for the vacation with my dad and his bunch. CRAZYNESS! However, we're going to an island where we will play in the sun and surf all day long and go boating and have a great time. So all in all, I'm quite excited. Maybe I'll even pick up a beach babe! Wish me luck!

So I'm not going to be here from Wednesday till Sunday late. I'm going to Colorado with the family to celebrate the grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. It's going to be very chilly up there, with highs in the low 70's the whole time. Send me warm thoughts ( Read more... )

I'm going to advise everybody to download one of these three programs, for the good of the world. They're all automated problem solvers that help researchers study various important things by using your extra computer time (when the CPU is idle) to analyze problems ( Read more... )

On my bike ride today I decided I believe in an historical imperative. Basically, the future is set by the past and nothing we do can change it in significant ways (unless you can singlehandly prevent nuclear war and thus the eradiction of history, and i don't know if even one person can affect this for long enough). Everything that happens to ( Read more... )

I was just looking through my old entries and I stunned by the number of comments I've gotten!
Thanks to everybody who took the time to read and remark on these ramblings of mine!