soapbox

I’m sad to announce that dactyl’s second hard drive has bit the dust. It’s not a huge issue since the second hard drive wasn’t actually doing anything, but sad all the same.

Actually, it ends up being an excuse to upgrade. Is there anyone up there at Dartmouth who would like to do some computer surgery in the future? It’d just require a quick trip to best buy to get whatever hard drive they have that’s the cheapest, powering dactyl down, replacing the hard drive (it’s the one that isn’t even screwed in), and then turning the power back on.

Check out this video. I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to do this… There’s also a male version.

Then, watch this one…..

Pretty soon I will be contractually unable to talk about a fair portion of my work. Which as any graduate student knows, is actually kinda a relief, since “how’s your work going” isn’t usually a great conversation topic for most of us.

The problem with this limitation is that I’m somewhat ill-trained for SoCal conversation. Naturally, you can’t go with “man, Papelbon was awesome last night” or “what the hell was Rem-dawg talking about last night”, but really most sports-related water cooler talk is out the window here, except for golf. Additionally, since it is always sunny and warm here, you can’t use the weather as a conversation starter.

So, basically, I’ve decided to make shit up. I end up doing this accidentally sometimes, like when I’m getting my haircut and the hairdresser/barber mis-hears something I say and I don’t feel like correcting them, but I figure that now I’ll just be a little more direct/intentional with my creativity.

Speaking of creativity, here’s my recent graphjam, inspired by having the Snoop/Phish song stuck in my head all day.

This week’s gem is courtesy of Detroit slugger Gary Sheffield:

“That’s what I love about my skip, man,” Tigers DH Gary Sheffield said before Sunday’s game. “He’ll tell you that you suck. That’s what I appreciate him for. I know I suck. We know we suck. But I don’t see nobody in there hanging their head and feeling sorry for themselves. Yeah, we suck. But we’ll see who sucks at the end.”

See, now that is how a veteran approaches an ugly start to the season.

You Have To Burn The Rope.
The song after you beat the game is just great great! I did fresh the page just so I could listen to the song again -_-

This seemed like a very appropriate post for ye olde soapbox, don’t you agree?

How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?

I’m clocking in at about 1 minute 35 seconds - how about y’all?

Sounds easy enough … But then again, maybe not ….

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