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biking to High Point was fun

On Thursday I rode with my good friend Travis from Chapel Hill to High Point. Got a bit of a sunburn, but otherwise enjoyed the road. We had a stretch of about six miles after we turned off of Greensboro Chapel Hill Road where we only saw one car. It was sublime.
Travis left on Friday [...]

Orange Politics, audio of the call

That robocall I posted about earlier also got posted on Orange Politics, where it got a lot of reads and a lot of comments fairly quickly. I started a tumblr blog to be able to easily post the audio of the robocall.

amino acids

At the Daily Grind just now the young lady ahead of me had a stack of brightly-colored flash cards. On the flash cards were the amino acids. Seeing that brought back a lot of NCSSM memories again. This past weekend I did a fair bit of cleaning/purging and ended up parting with physics, cell biology, [...]

weekend whatsits and stoof

did some canvassing for Obama, enjoyed the rain.
had a new flavor at locopops.
played a bit of Mario Party with frijole & friends on his new, massive TV.
got my 30-track fix from emusic, including Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
helped a friend of my mom’s clean out for a move. Got about 20 free paperbacks out [...]

working on the weekend?

I think the most awesome part about this video was finding it via a twitter from my boss:

list of lists I won’t complete for one reason or another

Ten things to do before I die
Public figures who make me want to puke
Jobs I should have learned a lesson from but didn’t
Crushes I wish I’d acted on
This list
Top ten strangest RT tickets I’ve received
Out-of-date wiki pages I should have updated or deleted

seen on a rice cooker…

Bad picture taken with my phone:

Stylish! Shape!

google reader widget and COinS metadata

I’m in the middle of finishing up some work that’s still crushing me, so I’ll make this quick.
See the bottom of the left sidebar for a new google reader widget I added yesterday. Google is getting more social, it would seem. If you use blogger they make it push-button simple for you to add [...]

the Internet is mostly cats

I haz a burrowing cat. Generalizing a bit (and building on previous work), here’s my hypothesis in graphical form:

And to help guarantee that I’m right, witness:

BIRGing that bugs me

I may be abusing the term BIRG here, but I just saw two people BIRGing by wearing Harvard shirts while going to get coffee. If I had more time I’d try to articulate why this annoys the crap out of me, but fortunately I’m rather busy getting ready for a graduate level database systems exam. [...]