“An estimated 1,200 km (740 mi) of faultline slipped 15 m (50 ft) along the subduction zone where the India Plate dives under the Burma Plate. Burma plate is estimated to have risen 10m vertically up over the Indian plate, creating shock waves in the Indian Ocean that traveled at up to 800 km/h [...]
Archive for December, 2004
What am I doing?
24Dec04I just read this. Feeling some of that trademark “liberal anger” coming on. I try REALLY hard to respect peoples’ political beliefs, but I am feeling pretty pissed at those who believe Bush is a moral man. Bush is not a moral man. He is an ignorant supremacist. He has [...]
If anyone has money to burn, is lacking inspiration for what to get me for Christmas, and doesn’t see anything on my amazon.com wish list, here are some things I have been in need of lately.
* Some decent cookie sheets/baking tins.
* Cheese/ginger/lemon grater
* Warm socks
* A rear rack for my bike, a milk [...]
Shelter
15Dec04Today, I ran across this essay from high school. It part of my application for the Nutmeg Scholarship at UConn, which I did not win. Re-reading it now, however, I am kind of proud of it.
Write an essay of not more than 800 words on one or two of your most significant works [...]
I’ve been watching Henry Liberman’s lecture on Applying Common Sense Reasoning as I “write” my 501 paper. A few observations:
1) The student projects he mentions are really impressive. I’m not sure how much they implemented, or how easy it is to interface with OpenMind, but I am impressed.
2) The audience comments were [...]
Shamefully good fun
07Dec04“A group of players sits in a bar. Each types a rude text
message into their phone. Before sending, they swap phones
and start blindly scrolling through the list of recipients until
someone says “halt”. The phones are returned to the
owners, who hold them to their forehead for others to see
the displayed recipient. Bets of beverages are then [...]
Bloomington is the diggity
05Dec04How Much I Had To Pay This Month To Stay Off The Streets:
Rent: $277.33
Utilities: $25.61
Groceries: $89.01
Student Loan payment: $133.30
Total: $525.24
I Am Not My Girlfriend
04Dec04For some reason, all of the sites that bloglines thinks are related to mine are about knitting. Wtf?
Fashion Madness
03Dec04OK, I wanted to comment on a couple of things I’ve seen around campus.
#1 - Fuzzy Boots
OK, it’s a fun juxtaposition, wearing fuzzy eskimo boots in the middle of the summer. But the fact is, it’s fun in the “look at me, I’m rich and I can do whatever the fuck I want, and [...]
