So, somewhat randomly, I ended up trying out for Jesus Christ Superstar today (the musical Gina and C.J. are putting on). There was both a singing and a dancing part of the audition, and while I could have just done the singing part, I figured the dancing would be fun (and I figured Gina and C.J. would get a kick out of me going through with it, ( Read more... )

I finally got sick enough of C++ that I've designed my own programming language and am working on porting menes over (which, most of the time, is causing me to realize I forgot to add something important to my grammar). My new language is called ++C. I got the idea for it after reading a paper called "A Modest Proposal: C++ Resyntaxed", where the ( Read more... )

Commandos can do what grunts do if they have to, but they don't like it; they are better than grunts, they know it, and they act like they know it. (If you've ever known a bona fide Green Beret or SEAL, you know what I'm talking about.) Grunts, whether alone or in arbitrarily large groups, cannot do what commandos can do. That's why the military ( Read more... )

Oh, so for people who read this, that play that I'm in is actually starting ;P. Friday (as in Today or Tomorrow, depending on if you are still awake) at 9pm, and 2pm and 9pm on Saturday. Girvetz 1004. Free.

There are a few situations I hate being in. One of them is having to ask the question "Can I call [so-and-so] now?". Maybe I think it's too late, or that I think they are busy, possibly that I'm calling them too often. In the past I have attempted to minimize my ability to cause this feeling in others. I tell _anyone_ who ever expresses a concern ( Read more... )

OK, I haven't even looked at any of these articles yet, but the very idea of this website sounds _awesome_. Completely random How To articles. Seeing the juxtoposition of ideas made me smile today, which was itself quite a feat ( Read more... )

( The Word 'Literally' )

At some point devilfish was interested in my statements that tea contains fluoride. Here's an abstract of a paper from Chulalongkorn University entitled Fluoride in Black Tea. (Note that for a quick counter, danopato will argue that even if this is true, the fluoride is probably not bio-available anyway.)

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From an article I read today ( Read more... )

So tonight, as I left campus (at around 3am, a perfectly respectable time to leave campus if you ask me) ( I got pulled over. )