…to quote Less Than Jake. Hopefully it’s a crash in the fun sense like when you’re snowboarding and fall into a huge drift and laugh it off and just have the minor inconvenience of having to crawl/swim your way out of the loose snow, which is good exercise anyway. As opposed to into a tree [...]
at least, I think so. I just got back on Sunday from the big annual math conference and it was hella tight. Through an online bulletin board, I found a roommate who’s about to get his Ph.D. from UC Riverside and turned out to be really cool. A good drinking buddy (see photo) and also [...]
As I mentioned earlier, the first weekend in November I got to go to Seattle to present a poster based on the research I did for my senior thesis. It was dope. There weren’t any grad schools there that I was interested in, but I met a bunch of cool undergrads and grad students. It [...]
for the portfolio. I’ll probably add it to that page at some point.
Education as a broad topic is one of the things that interests me a lot. I can think of a couple reasons why (it’s important to everything, public policy is interesting, cogsci is interesting, my parents care about it), but what’s cool is I’m finally old enough that I can start seriously thinking about how. [...]
I have decided it’s alcohol. It’s fun to give, it’s fun to receive, it’s fun to share. A good deal all around, really. So last week I spent about 10 hours a day Sun-Tues working on a new web design. It finally works, with adjustable font and window sizes, dynamic rollovers, all the cool stuff, [...]
The second reason Portland rocks (after the people that live here) is, of course, the people that work here. Everyone knows that my last job, coordinating Orientation Adventure, rocked. So I’ll use a photo essay to show how The Bus = OA = hella tight. On the left is the New, on the right is [...]
One of the weakest aspects of living in general is the fact that people with power can make bad decisions. The other weakest thing is how important personal relationships are. Of course both of these are fine if you’re on the decision-making end, but both create a situation that’s “less than ideal,” as NOLS instructor [...]