Planet Olin

Mom is sitting next to me complaining I don't update.

HI, MOM.

I'll update later.

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Cheese ball,
I saw you sitting there in the middle of the
platter of polite foods--swiss slices and grapes and such,
but no butter knife or crackers to accompany you.
It was a friendly gathering of people,
We all knew each other well enough to transcend the small talk
that usually accompanies cheese balls.

Some people poked at you, looked at you, asked
"what is this thing?"
"Is it a big ball of meat?"
I looked at them with stupefied amazement,
"It's... it's a cheese ball!
You, uh, eat it with crackers"
How have they not heard of cheese balls?
I thought they were as common as hamburgers.

Even without the crackers, I wondered
why people weren't taking advantage of the cheese,
succulent port wine covered in almonds--
maybe four bucks at a grocery store.

Thirty minutes passed,
not a bite.

I grabbed it,
put it on a paper plate and headed out to my car.
My passenger held the paper plate on the short ride home
and when I dropped him off I put it in my passenger seat.

Cheese ball,
you are coming home with me tonight

do you get this shit? sadr city is in iraq.

the hive mind has got yer soul.


p.s. thanks, guys, i guess that's what i get for using the lab computers. next time i'll remember to log out.

Yesterday I drove back up to Olin from North Carolina. The traffic around DC was horrendous (we moved 45 miles in two hours) but the drive wasn't bad otherwise. I did most of the driving but my mom drove from DC to mid New Jersey. Mom went back home this afternoon and I slept for the rest of the day, but at least I have a vehicle now. yay! I'll enjoy not having to bum rides anymore, even if people bum rides off of me now. I don't really mind giving rides to people though--it's a good way to make new friends.

I slept through dinner so when I woke up I got some Chinese food. I watched Banlieue 13, which was every bit as awesome as I expected it to be. I'm usually not much for action movies because they're one explosion after another, but this movie was like... kung fu! In French! With techno! Highly recommended.

Later this evening I went to Roland's room to shoot the breeze/surf the interwebs/do whatever I do when I'm hanging out with Roland. I was looking at the StAR center website for course registration stuff when I saw the following sentence:

"All dates are Olin specific unless prefaced by a BBW school. For specific BBW calenders, please visit the host school’s website."

bahahahahahahahahaha

I've been reading too much craigslist.

i used to have to fiddle with the cord going into my laptop to get both of my desktop speakers to work, until fiddling with it no longer worked and i was reduced to one channel. the fiddling always had to happen right at the neck of the plug so i figured i could replace it with one from a spare set of headphones, and indeed, against all odds, and with special thanks to 3 1/2 years of an engineering education, my friend from olin alex dillon, my in house electricians/helpers kevin and alex, and the house's solder and iron, i have successfully reconnected my speakers after the scary act of snipping the wire. i am way too proud of myself for how simple a task this was, but the fact that i can now listen to roy hargrove in all his glory officially makes me One of My Favorite People.

It's ironic that I'm updating my blog right now because I feel as if I've fallen under the "I've been in front of my computer for too long" syndrome.

Almost all of the work I do is in front of my laptop, with the exception of ICB packets, but even then I'll get online to look up theorems on MathWorld. Almost all of the communication I do is in front of my laptop: emails to Oliners, Skype calls to my family, IMs to friends back home.

In order to escape the "always in front of my computer" syndrome I got up this morning, got a shower and tried to take a walk through Parcel B. When I realized that my hair was still wet and it was cold outside, I decided to go to the dining hall so that my brain wouldn't freeze.

It was brunch and I ate too much. That was at 1:00, now it is almost 3:00, what did I do? I have a meeting at 5:00, what do I do?

There is a bottle of vegetable oil on my desk. Where did it come from? I don't mind its presence... I'm just curious.

Faces in the fire
Originally uploaded by radiantradon.

I like how this picture shows vague figures, standing on the ground as humans but glowing and flickering as fire-like entities.

Once upon a time there was an array called error. error lived in the jolly world known as MATLAB, but error had an error.


??? Error using ==> error
Too many output arguments.

Error in ==> OneD at 19
plot(error);