Stuff from June, 2006
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on June, 2006.
Wind Flowers
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on June, 2006.
My parents celebrated twenty seven years together today, and the event got me thinking about the blood, sweat, and tears that go into a partnership of almost three decades. It seems to me, from limited experience, that relationships are founded on the buoyancy of optimism, which initially keeps them afloat on the turbulent waters of life. It then also seems inevitable that one must (at some point) decide whether to jump ship or instead choose to be vigilant against the shoals that will founder and also avert becalming far out at sea. My sea-faring analogy stretches both your patience and my nautical vocabulary to the breaking point, so I must discontinue it … but surely you can see what I mean? After optimism, eventually you must make a decision.
Knightley’s performance is so light and yet fierce that she makes the story almost realistic; this is not a well-mannered “Masterpiece Theatre” but a film where strong-willed young people enter life with their minds at war with their hearts.
— Roger Ebert, on Pride and Prejudice
This thing, with root ball, weighed in at like 500 pounds. I sure am glad it survived after we transplanted it.
Strap on wings that let your fly unpowered for 25 miles - Yes, jump out of a plane, and this special suit allows you to fly for long distances at high speeds before deploying your parachute.
Will Ferrell as the devil - I said the GUITAR is out of TUNE!
More about her at Wikipedia.
My next lens? - I’ve been needing a faster (but cheap!) lens for some time … and this would allow me to take candids of acceptable quality in low-light situations (weddings, etc.).
One button dorm party - Utilizing their MIDAS (Multifunction In-Dorm Automation System), these two MIT kids have built an awesome party system into their dorm room.
Try the video captioned “a reenactment of a typical Thursday night party.”
After eleven months of chemistry research, and with the help of my esteemed (and much more experienced) colleague … I have succeeded in making step two of my six step antibiotic synthesis! There was no sarcasm in that previous statement, either. I am psyched. It’s going to be a good summer of research.
The successor to the RAZR - You thought the RAZR was the smallest phone out there? This upcoming phone by Motorola, codenamed “Canary,” makes the RAZR look like a wide load. Impressive.
I’ve started one or two journal entries here, and then immediately deleted them. I am saying the same thing over and over in a side-long and vague way that leaves me with no satisfaction. When my fingers cease flitting over the keys, the ideas are still in my head, and I’m looking at a couple of paragraphs of junk. To get in the blunt state of mind, I thought I’d list out some things about myself:
Best Tetris on the Mac - Hey Justin, you should try this. When I get a Mac, this will be the only game I’ll have for it. Via DF.
I don’t understand small things. Why can’t they just grow? I mean, I grew, and look at me!
— Dan McKeown
A birthday present from Katy!
I just wrote most of the Wikipedia article about the DAT - Feel free to check it out.
Best email correspondance of all time - In which Matthew Baldwin makes us all laugh, once again. My favorite comment:
“You have raised the wiseass bar for all of us.”
3-Year-Old’s Birthday Party Theme: ‘NewsHour’ - That is the funniest birthday cake I have ever seen. Via TMN.
I managed to chase down these hot air balloons: one flew right over my head, only about 300 feet above the ground.
As a result of the internet, we have more friends and much fewer close ones - I wonder how the children of the future (two decades from now) will interact with one another.
Still our primary TV after all these years (over 20).
That building on the right - might be going to school there in two years. This was taken at the beginning of the long drive up to Doctor Ippoliti’s cabin.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.
— Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
When I say I ran into my English teacher today, I do almost mean it in the literal sense. I was biking and he was driving, the corner was rather blind, and we both swerved and braked in emergency avoidance maneuvers. We casually chatted afterwards, but I the pounding heart-rates of both parties precluded the pretenses most people usually observe in polite conversation. I guess I am a bit socially awkward, not really in a debilitating sense, but still an inconvenience I could do without. My mantra is and almost always has been, be yourself. You can turn up the volume and turn down the volume on the traits, characteristics, and actions that make you as the situation dictates, but you should always go with being you. “Me,” as I currently stand, is a little bit awkward. The price of sincerity, I guess.
