The unbelievable folks at St. Thomas got together and got me a 200 dollar gift certificate to the Apple Store. I was absolutely blown away by this birthday gift (earlier in May), and jumped at the chance to get the music player that my ears have always dreamt of. They wrote:

We love you Alex - thanks so much fo all your help & for being so so great!! We know you really want/NEED an ipod - here’s a start! We all owe you our computer’s lives! Happy Birthday! - you are the BEST!

- Elise, Emily, Emily, Jordan, Kim, Dan, Ryan, & Tony

Guys and girls, you are the ones who are so so great - I never thought twice about patching up your compy’s after Internet Explorer decided to be a really really crappy browser. Computers can be a handful to maintain sometimes, but I like to be a good neighbor and it was my pleasure to delete the bad and restore the good. I had the time, and sometimes I knew what to do (only sometimes, many times I ad-libbed it and just acted like I knew what was going on).

If you’re wondering owning an iPod is exactly how I imagined it. The fidelity is incredible, the usability unparalled, the fit and finish astouding, and the ease of making a playlist on-the-go unexpectedly easy. There wasn’t much I hadn’t expected after reading ipodlounge.com for … many many months, although I must admit I ignored the install cd assuming iTunes would work with the iPod right away, which was a mistake. So, use the CD when you get an iPod. By the way, definitely get a case from Burning Love, the best iPod cases that you will find. Mykala got me one for my birthday (it matches her other amazing gift - a huge CordaRoy’s sack of foam perfectly!).

I must admit, I felt genuinely appreciated and affirmed and warm and fuzzy inside - you know how they say “what goes around comes around”? Well, that is, in my experience, completely true.

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Share music via USB over FM, perfect for parties

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Thin, Transparent Speakers - In a couple of years, your laptop monitor could be your speakers, too.

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Intereview with the creators of Oregon Trail

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Improve your handwriting - I am going to give this a try.

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Fantastic collection of letters by Richard Feynman - Via kottke.org, I believe.

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Oh Binz Refectory, sometimes you manage to amaze me. Despite my previous extremely poor food experiences (you may recall the cooking fluid in my fried rice last year), something has been going dreadfully right at my local cafeteria these days. Indeed, today I had exactly three minutes to run in and try to find something to eat. My arms were full with end of term projects, and I thought to myself as I ran to the building, “It sure would be nice if they had something good to eat, preferably something that could be held with one hand. Otherwise I’m going to be stuck with one of those Red Delicious Week-Old apples they always have.”

Lo and behold, I got precisely what I was looking for. As an added bonus, this was a new food - I’d never had a breaded chicken sandwich there before; what luck! The picture was taken as I waddled back to class with all my arms full.

A couple of more success stories like this and ‘food at the binz’ is going to be out of the red and into positive food experience territory. Really, though, my stories of suffering at the hands of excruciatingly gruesome dishes are more entertaining than the successful dining experiences. On that note, I’m on the lookout for “casserole super surprise” night: in the name of entertainment.

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Virtual Stan - “Dear god, here is Virtual Stan.”

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Mitsubishi Eclipse Concept = Amazing - Check out the glass roof.

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PHP Image Resize Server Store’er - Yeup, you should take a look at this, Justin.

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