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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
12:30 am	I have this horrible relationship with Os Mutantes where I realize I love them and then can't find any songs by them that I enjoy, thus making me no longer like them. "A Minha Menina" is a song I should use to counteract this feeling. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
7:16 pm	I'm totally losing at life. Three hours watching Eurovision Song Constest videos, and reading about the German Industrial Metal band, titled, scarily, Oomph! This is not learning about the Expectation Maximization algorithm, or doing my taxes. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
2:27 pm	the future (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
1:52 am	On this, my 23rd birthday, I do state that I am TIRED of being in the LAB at 2 AM. In 8 hours I'll be taking a midterm. Then I'll be frantically doing missed homework, then I'll be frantically reading papers for my lab meeting, then I'll be frantically having fun. By the way, a la 2004, here is infinite procrastination. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
12:27 am	with love, from wikipedia As early as 1937, A.D.Lindsay of Ocilla, Georgia claimed all “planets, islands-of-space or other matter” in the Universe as his property. [here] (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
11:17 pm	There have been a lot of stories on Katrina in the news lately, so I thought I'd share what some of our Pacific neighbors have had to deal with. Super Typhoon Tip, in addition to being fucking gigantic, is responsible for the lowest pressure ever observed on the surface of the Earth. People should also be paying attention to Hurricane Ernesto over near Haiti. It's projected to hit Tampa Bay pretty much directly, which is unlikely, and has not happened in over 80 years. If it does, however, it could be a Katrina-esque amount of damage. A strong 3 could put half of a 2.6 million member metropolis under water. Watch what one model predicts by way of storm surge. Scary shit, folks. And here in Massachusetts, it's cold and rainy. Hoorah for summer. (Comment on this)
Monday, August 7th, 2006
6:43 pm	There are times when I have crazy love for google. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
7:14 pm	Simple English Wikipedia is a fantastic idea. Does anyone know if there are other simple language wikipedias? (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
11:30 am	The Economist: Secretly Hilarious (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
2:53 am	I hate my country: Cocaine was prohibited in the first part of the 20th century. Newspapers used terms like "Negro Cocaine Fiends" and "Cocainized Niggers" to drive up sales, causing a nationwide panic about the rape of white women by black men, high on cocaine. Many police forces changed from a .32 caliber to a .38 caliber pistol because the smaller gun was supposedly unable to kill black men when they were high on cocaine. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 30th, 2006
11:53 am	OK, I sign up on myspace so that I can use the functionality of their stupid website, and now all of a sudden, people want to be my "friend". People I've never met, e-interacted with, said anything to, and I haven't even said anything at all. I have no interests, no friends, no nothing, and yet people are all 'add me!' and shit. Guh, myspace is stupid. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
5:44 pm	My dream job. (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
10:58 am	Irony: " Sometimes leaders show up who do a great disservice to the traditions and people of a country.' " ~ George W. Bush (Comment on this)
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
1:38 am	OMG, I'm in California! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
5:03 am	spring Spring in Boston means everyone goes outside, even when they have final projects, papers, and presentations to prepare. Flowers, bikes, ducks, boats, sun, sky, river. It's awful nice. I keep thinking it's going to end suddenly and there won't be anything I can do about it. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
1:15 am	"Your wait little girl, on an empty stage / For fate to turn the light on Your life, little girl, is an empty page / That men will want to write on" The Sound of Music is a tremendous musical, if you take the dramatically excellent parts of these songs and just cut out the rest of the chaff. Most of "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" should have been left on the cutting room floor, but that intro is just so delectable. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, March 31st, 2006
11:01 pm	did you know... That I make music and put it online? Check it out at my website. The goal, actually, is to link to it enough so that if you want to find my music, google will let you. Right now, that's not possible. Therefore, here we are. PS, springtime is great. I love it. "Your life may not be going good / but Spring helps you to pretend" God bless Of Montreal. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
1:09 am	My Schedule: Thursday, 5pm: Final Exam (Computational Neuroscience) Friday, ?pm: Final Paper due (Neural Models of Vision) Monday, 8am: Mom & Brother come to Boston Monday, 1pm: Final Exam (Neural Models of Audition) Monday, 5pm: Final Exam (Intro to Neural Modeling) Tuesday, 8am: Leave to go to New York Friday, ?am: Fly to Atlanta, drive to Knoxville Wed, ???: Fly to California Jan 16, 5am: Return to Boston (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 9th, 2005
3:31 pm	I have a new webpage! Wow! PS - I'm in Boston, I have a place to live, I finally found furniture, and I am Not Dead. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 12th, 2005
3:44 am	Last Days So, come August 29th, I am leaving this hallowed state to venture to Boston, where I will live with five twenty-something organic diy kids in an aging house in Cambridgeport, a thirty minute (or so) walk from my department's building at BU. Leaving the Bay Area is sad, but Boston is pretty fantastic, and it's always kind of liberating to start anew. It's one thing that I'm kind of good at, I've had the opportunity to do it like, over and over again, and I always feel like the same person when it's all said and done, which is either comforting or distressing, I'm not sure which. So in the coming days, I have to read a few books (namely my Berkeley library books) and then get my fucking shit together for Boston. Does anyone have any good moving ideas? I need to ship my CDs, my books, my computer, my guitars (2), and my synth. Anyone have any bright ideas? I'd be happy to hear them. I also want to get an 'activity' when I go to Boston. Like, one of those 'meeting people' activities, I was thinking maybe something sporty. Like, maybe the East Coast Wrestling Club, except not quite that gay. Actually, all of the gay sporty things look a little too sporty. I need to find equally unathletic people with whom I can compete on equal footing. Anyway, stress stress stress, except not at all, for some reason. Tonight was my last workshift at Wilde, which went by without incident. I think it's easier to leave because I've kind of anticipated leaving for a while, from both Wilde and the Bay Area, to go to graduate school. I mean, I get extremely sentimental, but I think recently, I've just had better things to do, such as jerking off. Whoops. (3 Comments |Comment on this)