December 2009
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Things I've done with my break...so far...
Slept in…
Moved things from the farm to my parent’s new house.
Read The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown on Christmas Eve…(all of it)
Went to Staples and talked to my former robotics instructors.
Went to Wisconsin to see someone special.
Watched two Vikings games…three in a few hours…
Watched A LOT of Hulu
Put about 750 miles on my mom’s car…
Got the oil...
Can you buy gift cards with gift cards?
I have a Target gift card and I was wondering if I can buy an iTunes gift card with it cause I want to buy music and it’s cheaper in iTunes than buying the disc in Target…
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My Top Albums of 2009
I did this last year and thought I’d try it again….
This is my list of my top albums that came out in 2009…it only has five on it, mostly because I’m a poor college student and I actually BUY albums. I will list at the end the albums from this year that I still want to get (when I have the $$). I’m not a music critic, so you won’t get very good explanations for why they are placed...
16-20 inches of snow? pfft mere nuisance…
playing around with Songbird (http://getsongbird.com) again, more polished than the last time I tried it
easily going to put over 1000 miles on my mom’s car over winter break
by the time I’m used to living at my parent’s new house it will be time to head back to college
The Russian Sleep Experiment
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omedo:
Russian researchers in the late 1940’s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn’t kill them, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This was before closed circuit cameras so they had only microphones and 5...
this is definitely a little weird
1. being at home with my parents in a different house
2. going to our old house to get more of our stuff and seeing someone else living there
but watching red green on saturday evening does make it a little less weird…
going home tomorrow = going from cold to colder…
Finished! Now comes the wait for final grades to be posted…
http://thegleebox.com it’s like Quicksilver for Firefox or Chrome!
Done: Robotic Manipulation, Signals and Systems, Embedded Systems Engineering… Left: DiffEq, Fundamental Data Structures and Algorithms…
must fix a travesty by having my Canadian roommate watch The Red Green Show
“Oh come on now, a loon is not a duck! It’s a majestic and beautiful...”
– Reddit commenter.
Hey now, that’s the Minnesota state bird you’re talking about!
Sometimes I feel like college is just one big,...
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just chess and finals left…
down to 11 things to complete for the semester.
starting to see more contacts in Google Wave…maybe it will become useful??
http://relogik.com/cipher WANT
Google: Zeitgeist 2009: City by City →
east-lake:
Minneapolis, MN:
southdale amc
gophermail
anoka county jail
mn unemployment benefits
guthrie theater
shakopee schools
riverview theater
eden prairie schools
star tribune obituaries
running aces
2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
Pittsburgh, PA
carnegie library oakland
hofbrauhaus
rivers casino
cmu directory
ccac blackboard
kdka news pittsburgh
cmu blackboard
...
they most likely will never see this, but happy 25th wedding anniversary to my parents today!