Category Archives: General

Everything else, or if I’m just too lazy to catagorize it in another category.

Short trip to Korea, pt. 1

Posted on July 4, 2011 by admin

And by short, I mean short. I’ve been in in Kumamoto, Japan on an extended business trip for most of the summer (since mid-May, in fact), working on a project here. In fact the trip is so long that I … Continue reading →

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Brontë Sisters

Posted on May 19, 2010 by admin

How is it I have never seen this before? This is totally awesome.

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Pseudo-spam comments

Posted on April 26, 2010 by admin

My blog, since it has a posting frequency and readership in the single digits, doesn’t generate a lot of traffic or original viewers. But like any blog, comment spam is a continuous problem. I use the Akismet and WP-SpamFree plugins … Continue reading →

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Internet Vigilantism

Posted on January 6, 2010 by admin

Cyber-bullying and such has recently come into the consciousness and lexicon of the internet-using west. Incidents like the Star Wars kid or more tragically Megan Meier have made us more aware and wary of what us and our children are … Continue reading →

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Tower of Hanoi

Posted on October 4, 2009 by admin

I was chatting with my brother Porter the other day and he told me how he made a Tower of Hanoi game for his children to play with. It’s a fairly simple game with a well-known binary sequence to solving … Continue reading →

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RSS feeds

Posted on September 30, 2009 by admin

Overall, I consider myself to be fairly tech-savvy. I program in multiple languages for my research (right now: python and MATLAB, though I have used C++), I use both windows and linux systems (though I’m still not entirely comfortable in … Continue reading →

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Little Red Riding Hood

Posted on March 30, 2009 by admin

I just saw this video for a modern reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood. I don’t know what to call this style, but the execution is excellent. SlagsmÃ¥lsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

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Nielsen TV Ratings

Posted on March 23, 2009 by admin

A few weeks ago we got a letter from Nielsen Media Research, the company that has done the TV ratings for almost 50 years here in the U.S. It said that they had randomly selected my household to participate in … Continue reading →

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X-COM: the walkthrough story

Posted on December 24, 2008 by admin

Back when I was a freshman in college, my roommate and I would often spend the entire day on Saturday playing X-COM and its sequel X-COM: Terror from the Deep. The premise is fairly simple, alien invaders of some kind … Continue reading →

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How to Start Your Own Martial Arts Style, pt. 3

Posted on December 1, 2008 by admin

For the three of you that read this blog (considering I generally update it about monthly), you may remember my posts in the distant past about founding your own martial arts style here and here. Well, that second post still … Continue reading →

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