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Half Life
I recently wanted to play a first-person-shooter, but of course I didn’t have the money to go out and buy anything. I do, though, have a CD of the original half-life, so I installed it, realized it didn’t work on … Continue reading
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Hippies and Hibakusha, contd.
I know I’m lazy, and I should have finished this about a month ago. Anyway, the program finally got to Dr. Konishi. Unlike all of the bombastic and overblown dialogue we had to endure up to this point, Dr. Konishi’s … Continue reading
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Hippies and Hibakusha
As everyone who hasn’t been living under a media blackout for the past month is aware, last Saturday was the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing. This anniversary, while being a very big deal in Japan, for obvious reasons, is … Continue reading
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Online Quiz: Just How Stupid Do You Think I Am?
I’ve always liked quiz games, especially if they are dealing with subjects that I know a little bit about. I really enjoyed the original Trivial Pursuit, before they changed all the questions to nothing but pop culture. Even back in … Continue reading
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Christ buried in Japan
I had posted something on this earlier, but with the change in domain, etc., that last post was inadvertently lost. I’ll do my best to rebuild it. There are many strange legends that are floating around, if you’re curious and … Continue reading
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Finished with Qualifying Exams
Well, this week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I took the PhD qualifying exams. I think I did OK on them, but the transport test (heat, mass, and momentum) had a couple of curve balls that I could have handled … Continue reading
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More on Advisor Decision
My friend Mitch wrote the following comment to my earlier post. Wow, your advisor decision in some way influences what kind of research you have to do (that is not only your own research interests within a given field)? The … Continue reading
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Advisor Decision
Well, I and all of the other 1st-year grad students here in the Chemical Engineering department turned in our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for our advisor. It turns out that my advisor is Dr. Bonnecaze. He wasn’t my first … Continue reading
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In Austin
Well, I’m finally here in Austin with my family. I will be here for 5 years getting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. It seems to be a really nice city so far, and … Continue reading
How to (or not to) Start Your Own Martial Arts Style
I was going to just write this as a comment to my earlier post, but there was a lot I wanted to say, so I’m just writing it as a new post. I mentioned how Oyata-sensei has had a problem … Continue reading
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