I got my new car today. It rocks. I enjoy having a moon roof way more than I thought I would. I also like the silver color and black interior more than I thought I would. Heh. I smell like new car now.

I've been doing a fair amount of reading recently. I feel that I've done a fairly good job of hitting most of the Classical Canon, though there are certainly still gaps in my reading there. However, I've been a reader of BoingBoing for quite some time, and one of their editors is Cory Doctorow. Cory Doctorow is a scifi/cyberpunk author, and ( Read more... )

There's two things that have been bothering me a bit recently. The first is the song "Fake It" by Seether. It's been on the radio a lot around here, and the more I hear it, the more I dislike it. What bothers me the most is the chorus which goes like this ( Read more... )

It has come to my attention that I may have mis-clicked while cleaning up my friends list. If you were on my friends list, and aren't now, please send me an email or comment or something.

I just got an aggravating email from one of my professors. I had made out a plan for the next three semesters that would let me graduate in 3 semesters, without taking summer courses, and without excessive course loads. All of this was based on a course flowchart that the Mechanical Engineering Department had published for use by faculty and ( Read more... )

I am no longer attending Purdue University ( Read more... )

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I just wanted to thank all of you for filling out that survey. While it may not have seemed like you were doing anything special, your answers have definitely narrowed down the design my team will be working on.

So, since you willingly gave your time, I'd like to give something back. I'm not sure what I can do for you guys, but let me know. Even if ( Read more... )

How many portable devices do you carry around on a daily basis?  What are they?

Do you use a holster/clip for your portable electronic device?  How often?

Would you buy a portable charging device that does not require you to plug it into an outlet?

What  if you had to shake or crank it?

Would you be willing to carry the weight of an extra ( Read more... )

Being  back on a large, non-commuter campus again, I realized how easy it is to slip into a rather narcissistic view of the hordes of people around us. Because there are so many people, nearly all of them on their way from one meeting to another, our opinions of them are based on fleeting impressions of them. She's sad, he's happy, that guy over ( Read more... )