All right, so this is pretty much awesome: http://wave.google.com/
The preview is an hour and 20 minutes long, but I started watching it thinking "eh, I'll give it a chance and watch the first couple minutes" and then ended up sitting through it and still wanting more at the end. Basically it's Google's next best thing that has the potential to replace e-mail and instant messengers as well as work with blogs, twitter, social networking sites, and most of the rest of the internet. And they're writing it so that companies can pick it up and offer it as a service to people, like yahoo, hotmail and others offer e-mail now. I'm actually really hoping people pick it up, because I'd much rather use it than e-mail (although now that I think about it, I probably COULD use it instead of e-mail, and just use a robot like the ones they talk about it to translate between the two services...).
Go and watch the preview video.
(then go see Up, although even Up is slightly less awesome than Wave.)
EDIT: I realized that I talked about my brother's friend who's writing for a sports site, but I didn't actually include the link! Here it is: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/jwaldmann
Weekend time (...almost)
So today was fairly useless work-wise, since (after a lab meeting this morning) I didn't have time or materials to do much. Instead I got to read news online.
First, apparently Wikipedia got annoyed with Scientologists.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/
It looks like there's a group of them that specifically changed Scientology related articles to push their views. As it says at the end of the article, this isn't the first time it's happened, but it's the first time something has officially been done about it, so it's kind of strange.
Second, I just feel bad for this guy. Apparently he's been taking a specific anti-cancer drug that eventually destroys your fingerprints and got held at the airport for 4 hours because of it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE54Q42P20090527?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Apparently the top layer of skin is the only one responsible for fingerprints so the fact that the drug can cause swelling, skin peeling, and blistering eventually leads to losing your fingerprints. I don't really know much about skin layers so I don't get what "first layer" means, because I (and other people I know) have burned off, or otherwise lost, a layer of fingerprint skin and they were still there. Maybe that's just different meanings of "first layer" coming into play. Either way, poor guy, no one wants to be held against their will anywhere for that long when it's not their fault. At least it looks like his cancer's gone.
Anyway, I think it's time to go home fairly soon, so I'll finish this up. The rest of Reuter's 'Oddly Enough' news is pretty cool too. They found a feral girl in Russia and Switzerland's bringing in tourists to certify them as mountain cleaners. Weird stuff, and it looks like the second one actually started as an April Fool's joke.
Have a good weekend!
(especially if I don't post =P)
First, apparently Wikipedia got annoyed with Scientologists.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/
It looks like there's a group of them that specifically changed Scientology related articles to push their views. As it says at the end of the article, this isn't the first time it's happened, but it's the first time something has officially been done about it, so it's kind of strange.
Second, I just feel bad for this guy. Apparently he's been taking a specific anti-cancer drug that eventually destroys your fingerprints and got held at the airport for 4 hours because of it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE54Q42P20090527?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Apparently the top layer of skin is the only one responsible for fingerprints so the fact that the drug can cause swelling, skin peeling, and blistering eventually leads to losing your fingerprints. I don't really know much about skin layers so I don't get what "first layer" means, because I (and other people I know) have burned off, or otherwise lost, a layer of fingerprint skin and they were still there. Maybe that's just different meanings of "first layer" coming into play. Either way, poor guy, no one wants to be held against their will anywhere for that long when it's not their fault. At least it looks like his cancer's gone.
Anyway, I think it's time to go home fairly soon, so I'll finish this up. The rest of Reuter's 'Oddly Enough' news is pretty cool too. They found a feral girl in Russia and Switzerland's bringing in tourists to certify them as mountain cleaners. Weird stuff, and it looks like the second one actually started as an April Fool's joke.
Have a good weekend!
(especially if I don't post =P)
Little baby green monkeys!
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/glowing-monkeys-make-more-glowing-monkeys-the-old-fashioned-way/
I didn't realize that they hadn't done this yet. If they hadn't, then it's a pretty big deal. I guess it is a lot harder to get changes passed on, especially in monkeys.
I didn't realize that they hadn't done this yet. If they hadn't, then it's a pretty big deal. I guess it is a lot harder to get changes passed on, especially in monkeys.
A little update
So, it's been a couple days, mainly because it's the same old same old with me. My Memorial Day consisted of basically just sitting around royally screwing up my sleep schedule. For some reason I woke up at 6am, even though I had gone to bed at about 12:30. Now, days after, I'm still on that messed up schedule. I guess this IS the schedule I actually wanted to be on, but I was thrust into it fairly forcefully (by... someone, I'm sure. My subconscious maybe?). For the past couple of days I've been going to bed at about 9:45 or 10 and waking up at 7:15, which means I'm getting a lot of sleep, but I'm still freaking tired. Hopefully it's just an issue of getting used to it, which means I should be good tonight. The goal is to go to bed between 9 and 9:30 and wake up between 5:30 and 6. That would give me about an hour of free time before I needed to be anywhere and I could probably get to work at 8, which would mean going home around 4 instead of 5, which would give me about the same amount of time after work as I have now.
Anyway, considering the fact that my sleep schedule is the biggest highlight of the past couple of days, it's not really that much of a surprise that there hasn't been much posting. I guess I could start doing webcomic focus posts, since I read a BUNCH of them. We'll start with....
Dominic Deegan, Oracle for Hire
This is probably my favorite (or at least in the top three) of the big long list that I read. It's a fantasy comic set in a world created by the author (the same guy writes and draws it) and it's really surprising how deep and creative it is. The comic is a story comic that focuses on Dominic Deegan (hopefully obvious) who's a seer that helps solve the world's probably with his friends and family, basically. I'm not really great at summing up things, but that's fairly accurate. There can be a fair amount of blood and gore at times, but it's usually only a strip or two before it moves on, so that's not the focus. It looks like he puts a lot of effort into it and the art has improved a lot over the course of the comic (this is the case for pretty much all of the comics I'll post) I just realized that it's hard to just pick up with the current story, so if you want to read it, you're probably better of starting from the beginning. That's really my recommendation for any of the comic's I'll post, since that way you get to see how characters change and how the art changes over the course of the comic, which is always nice. Plus you'll understand the references made to earlier plot point, which can help.
Well that's that, have a great day!
Anyway, considering the fact that my sleep schedule is the biggest highlight of the past couple of days, it's not really that much of a surprise that there hasn't been much posting. I guess I could start doing webcomic focus posts, since I read a BUNCH of them. We'll start with....
Dominic Deegan, Oracle for Hire
This is probably my favorite (or at least in the top three) of the big long list that I read. It's a fantasy comic set in a world created by the author (the same guy writes and draws it) and it's really surprising how deep and creative it is. The comic is a story comic that focuses on Dominic Deegan (hopefully obvious) who's a seer that helps solve the world's probably with his friends and family, basically. I'm not really great at summing up things, but that's fairly accurate. There can be a fair amount of blood and gore at times, but it's usually only a strip or two before it moves on, so that's not the focus. It looks like he puts a lot of effort into it and the art has improved a lot over the course of the comic (this is the case for pretty much all of the comics I'll post) I just realized that it's hard to just pick up with the current story, so if you want to read it, you're probably better of starting from the beginning. That's really my recommendation for any of the comic's I'll post, since that way you get to see how characters change and how the art changes over the course of the comic, which is always nice. Plus you'll understand the references made to earlier plot point, which can help.
Well that's that, have a great day!
And here's that other post
So yeah, basically I had stuff that I wanted to bring back to my apartment but I didn't feel like bringing them with me when I came back last weekend. I went home yesterday afternoon, got home around 6:30, did the hanging-out-at-home-with-parents thing until about 8 tonight, then drove back and brought my brother's PS3 and some new shirts and pants. Woohoo! And now, random pictures:
That's apparently a picture of a horse skeleton statue thing from the Meijer botanical gardens in Grand Rapids sent to me by a friend today. Considering I was in Holland for 4 years doing a biology degree it's a bit strange that I've never been, but yeah, I haven't. Apparently he and his family found Holland boring, but I'm not sure what they thought of the gardens.
And, in the spirit of emptying my phone of any and all relatively new pictures, here's a camera phone picture of a computer monitor showing a picture of daffodils.
I quite like the effect that the cursor has on the screen-refresh lines and the way they contrast the... yeah. This was basically just to send to someone so they'd know what daffodils are. Hope everyone's having a great Memorial Day weekend (or just normal weekend if there's no long weekend for you)!
That's apparently a picture of a horse skeleton statue thing from the Meijer botanical gardens in Grand Rapids sent to me by a friend today. Considering I was in Holland for 4 years doing a biology degree it's a bit strange that I've never been, but yeah, I haven't. Apparently he and his family found Holland boring, but I'm not sure what they thought of the gardens.And, in the spirit of emptying my phone of any and all relatively new pictures, here's a camera phone picture of a computer monitor showing a picture of daffodils.
I quite like the effect that the cursor has on the screen-refresh lines and the way they contrast the... yeah. This was basically just to send to someone so they'd know what daffodils are. Hope everyone's having a great Memorial Day weekend (or just normal weekend if there's no long weekend for you)!
Graduation and vacation
So it turns out I didn't actually have as much time as I thought I would today, but I DID have a bunch of good times with my parents, which was cool. I also cut a plant up into a bunch of pieces and (hopefully) made new plants out of it, so it'll be interesting to see if they grow. I really hope so because I didn't think to keep the original base plant, I just kind of uprooted it and ripped it to pieces. Oh well, this has worked before multiple times for this particular plant, so I'm not too worried (it's a coleus like the one in the picture below that I stole from the internet)
Anyway, on to the main topic of the (probably fairly lengthy) post. From the 8th to the 17th I was on my summer vacation. I'm really hoping this isn't the only vacation I get this summer because it was short and that'd be lame (I don wanna grow up! Waahhh!). The 8th was a Friday.
Friday:
I got up, got my crap together, and left about an hour after I'd planned to. I don't really remember specific timing, but I think I left either at 10 or 11 when I'd meant to leave at 9 or 10. I got home about 40 minutes after I'd planned to. Basically this means that I plan for about 1 1/2 hours to 1 hour and 40 minutes for the trip when it only takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Good deal. Podcasts and music were listened to.
I got home, had some lunch, and hung out with my mom/was a lazy bum around the house until my dad got home. I had sent my mom one of those edible arrangements for Mother's Day because with our initial plans we weren't going to be home on Mother's Day. Turns out plans were changed and we WERE home, but she got the arrangement on Wednesday before Mother's Day anyway. It apparently looked like this (you can always click on the pictures for bigger versions):
and it supposedly tasted quite good. It had pineapple, strawberries, apple, and grapes I think with some chocolate coated and others not. My parents had eaten it all by the time I got home (my dad took some in to work too... I guess even the small sizes are pretty substantial. Good to know). Once my dad was home, we drove to Albion. I think it took about an hour and 40 minutes (total travel time so far: 3 hours). We met my brother and his girlfriend at a Mexican restaurant for dinner (it was, and still is, my favorite restaurant in Albion. It's also the only restaurant I've eaten at in Albion). She's a lovely person and, while I had met her before, my parents had not. It was a good meal and a good way to start things off. From there we went back to my brother's apartment and then to the baccalaureate (hey I spelled that right on the first attempt!) service. I was fairly promptly astonished by the variety on the program.
Three different religions AND a non-religious speaker?! Heresy! At Hope we were lucky to get speakers who were only mildly fire-and-brimstone, but they get four separate viewpoints? Needless to say, his baccalaureate was a lot more fun and a lot more memorable than mine (and I think it might replace mine in stories I tell, if it ever comes up) and the speakers and music was all really good. I think after this we basically just went back to the hotel and slept until...
Saturday (I promise they won't all be this long):
This was the day of the actual graduation. The weather looked like it might hold and the announcement was made that the ceremony would be outdoors, so of course we brought umbrellas. We were told there would be breakfast on campus, so we skipped the continental breakfast at the hotel and headed over. We got to my brother's apartment and headed over to where breakfast was, only to see a really freaking long line. We ended up going back to his apartment and cobbling together breakfast from a frozen pizza and some eggs. It was pretty all right, considering the cobbled-togetherness of it. Also, the apartment was pretty much a mess, which was to be expected considering the number of guys living in it, but not considering the fact that they (supposedly) had to be out by 5 or 6pm. Then Kris (my brother) headed over to get set up for the ceremony and we (my parents, Kris's girlfriend Addy, and I) made our way across campus as well.
There was a fairly brief stop at the building where breakfast was and the lines were gone so we got some orange juice and coffee. I still think it was a good idea to eat at the apartment because it was basically donut holes and mini-muffins for breakfast, which would NOT have filled me up (I remember being strangely hungry considering how relatively early it was). Then we headed over to the ceremony. I think it started at 10:30 and the goal was to finish by 1 or 2ish. I don't really remember timing that well, but it's been a while, so... yeah. Anyway I think it was about this time that it started to rain. And get cold. And the wind picked up. Overall the ceremony was remarkably good, with two really good speakers, one a Holocaust survivor with a cool accent and a good message (and only slightly depressing) and one the CEO of Dominos pizza. All of the grads got a coupon for a free pizza meal.
Again, I feel like it was better than mine and we had great weather, maybe even a bit hot. Kris's was an adventure that chilled you to the bone if you weren't careful and had tales that took you through the murky parts of recent history and showed the triumph of human determination. All I really remember of mine is that it was hot, I somehow found my parents and brother in the bleachers in the stadium (during the ceremony), and we had water bottles under our seats instead of free pizza coupons. Oh and I apparently get more photogenic when I have to be in a hurry. Anyway, back to Kris. I didn't take any pictures with my phone so I don't have any to show, but he has a nice little album to remember the day. After the ceremony there was much jostling as we found Kris, then made our way to a meet and greet to meet his professors. They were pleasant people. We walked back to the apartment (by now it had pretty much stopped raining) and helped Kris pack up and clean up the rest of his stuff. He'd done a pretty good job with what he could before we got there so it went pretty smoothly. I'm really not sure how the rest of the guys got out of there at a decent hour, though. (Note from as I'm writing this: strawberries get REALLY good if you cut them up and sprinkle a bit of sugar on them then let them sit in the fridge for a few hours. They aren't a very good blogging snack, though, since they pretty much tie up your hands. In fact, I'm not sure there IS a good blogging snack.)
We left town and stopped at a really good sushi place on the way out. I'd say Sansu in East Lansing has it beat, but that may just be personal bias. After another hour and 45 minutes of driving we got home (total time: 4 hours 45 minutes) and just hung around for the evening.
Sunday:
I think Sunday was just hanging out around home and taking Addy to see the sights. Kris did most of the work there, I was basically just there when there was food. Apparently they went to places I've never been, though, so I should probably check those out at some point.
Monday through Wednesday:
We got all packed up and drove to Bay Harbor in the northern part of the lower peninsula. We dropped Addy off at her apartment on the way and ate lunch in the area at a sandwich shop with a heck of a variety (and good food). After a total of about 5 1/2 hours in the car (plus the break for lunch) we got to the resort/hotel/Inn at Bay Harbor (total travel time: 10 hours). I'm pretty sure it's a nice summer resort because it's right on the lake and there's a nice touristy downtown and a golf course, but we were there kind of on the off season and only for a few days, so for us it was basically just relax-time. We wandered around, had dinner, and got a feel for the place, then just put in time for the evening. The next day we had breakfast at the hotel then walked around town for a while (it's a nice place, good variety of shops) and walked out to the docks where people supposedly park their boats (yes I know that's not the right terminology, but it sounds like something my dad would say, so it's staying).
Again, nice place. I think I need to live in a place near water eventually. Part of the reason we picked this place is that we booked a room there for the time and then got the same amount of money back to spend on spa stuff. All four of us got massages and my mom got something else... a facial I think. Good deal. We had some local pizza for dinner (kind of a family tradition when we travel) which was really good and did some more relaxing before going to bed. Wednesday we had breakfast with Addy and her mom and step-dad at the hotel (she lives near there and drove up after we dropped her off) then headed home. Five hours later, we were home and, once again, just kind of hanging out (ttt: 15 hours).
Thursday and Friday:
were pretty uneventful, but that's how I like my vacation time, so that's good. We went out to eat a few times and did family stuff, basically.
Saturday and Sunday:
Saturday we headed up to Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada to visit family. Twelve freaking hours of driving for about 10 hours of extended-family-time. (ttt: 27 hours) It was definitely really good to see everyone that we saw, though, and we only rarely get to actually see them (MAYBE twice a year, on a very good year) so it was worth it. After we got home, I got unpacked then repacked and drove back to campus (1 hour 20 minutes more, final ttt: about 28 hours 20 minutes). I know I forgot stuff, but oh well, that's what I remember and I don't really want it to be longer anyway. Overall a very good week! So good, in fact, that I actually went back home this weekend =P. But that's a different post.
Anyway, on to the main topic of the (probably fairly lengthy) post. From the 8th to the 17th I was on my summer vacation. I'm really hoping this isn't the only vacation I get this summer because it was short and that'd be lame (I don wanna grow up! Waahhh!). The 8th was a Friday.
Friday:
I got up, got my crap together, and left about an hour after I'd planned to. I don't really remember specific timing, but I think I left either at 10 or 11 when I'd meant to leave at 9 or 10. I got home about 40 minutes after I'd planned to. Basically this means that I plan for about 1 1/2 hours to 1 hour and 40 minutes for the trip when it only takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Good deal. Podcasts and music were listened to.
I got home, had some lunch, and hung out with my mom/was a lazy bum around the house until my dad got home. I had sent my mom one of those edible arrangements for Mother's Day because with our initial plans we weren't going to be home on Mother's Day. Turns out plans were changed and we WERE home, but she got the arrangement on Wednesday before Mother's Day anyway. It apparently looked like this (you can always click on the pictures for bigger versions):
and it supposedly tasted quite good. It had pineapple, strawberries, apple, and grapes I think with some chocolate coated and others not. My parents had eaten it all by the time I got home (my dad took some in to work too... I guess even the small sizes are pretty substantial. Good to know). Once my dad was home, we drove to Albion. I think it took about an hour and 40 minutes (total travel time so far: 3 hours). We met my brother and his girlfriend at a Mexican restaurant for dinner (it was, and still is, my favorite restaurant in Albion. It's also the only restaurant I've eaten at in Albion). She's a lovely person and, while I had met her before, my parents had not. It was a good meal and a good way to start things off. From there we went back to my brother's apartment and then to the baccalaureate (hey I spelled that right on the first attempt!) service. I was fairly promptly astonished by the variety on the program.
Three different religions AND a non-religious speaker?! Heresy! At Hope we were lucky to get speakers who were only mildly fire-and-brimstone, but they get four separate viewpoints? Needless to say, his baccalaureate was a lot more fun and a lot more memorable than mine (and I think it might replace mine in stories I tell, if it ever comes up) and the speakers and music was all really good. I think after this we basically just went back to the hotel and slept until...Saturday (I promise they won't all be this long):
This was the day of the actual graduation. The weather looked like it might hold and the announcement was made that the ceremony would be outdoors, so of course we brought umbrellas. We were told there would be breakfast on campus, so we skipped the continental breakfast at the hotel and headed over. We got to my brother's apartment and headed over to where breakfast was, only to see a really freaking long line. We ended up going back to his apartment and cobbling together breakfast from a frozen pizza and some eggs. It was pretty all right, considering the cobbled-togetherness of it. Also, the apartment was pretty much a mess, which was to be expected considering the number of guys living in it, but not considering the fact that they (supposedly) had to be out by 5 or 6pm. Then Kris (my brother) headed over to get set up for the ceremony and we (my parents, Kris's girlfriend Addy, and I) made our way across campus as well.
There was a fairly brief stop at the building where breakfast was and the lines were gone so we got some orange juice and coffee. I still think it was a good idea to eat at the apartment because it was basically donut holes and mini-muffins for breakfast, which would NOT have filled me up (I remember being strangely hungry considering how relatively early it was). Then we headed over to the ceremony. I think it started at 10:30 and the goal was to finish by 1 or 2ish. I don't really remember timing that well, but it's been a while, so... yeah. Anyway I think it was about this time that it started to rain. And get cold. And the wind picked up. Overall the ceremony was remarkably good, with two really good speakers, one a Holocaust survivor with a cool accent and a good message (and only slightly depressing) and one the CEO of Dominos pizza. All of the grads got a coupon for a free pizza meal.
Again, I feel like it was better than mine and we had great weather, maybe even a bit hot. Kris's was an adventure that chilled you to the bone if you weren't careful and had tales that took you through the murky parts of recent history and showed the triumph of human determination. All I really remember of mine is that it was hot, I somehow found my parents and brother in the bleachers in the stadium (during the ceremony), and we had water bottles under our seats instead of free pizza coupons. Oh and I apparently get more photogenic when I have to be in a hurry. Anyway, back to Kris. I didn't take any pictures with my phone so I don't have any to show, but he has a nice little album to remember the day. After the ceremony there was much jostling as we found Kris, then made our way to a meet and greet to meet his professors. They were pleasant people. We walked back to the apartment (by now it had pretty much stopped raining) and helped Kris pack up and clean up the rest of his stuff. He'd done a pretty good job with what he could before we got there so it went pretty smoothly. I'm really not sure how the rest of the guys got out of there at a decent hour, though. (Note from as I'm writing this: strawberries get REALLY good if you cut them up and sprinkle a bit of sugar on them then let them sit in the fridge for a few hours. They aren't a very good blogging snack, though, since they pretty much tie up your hands. In fact, I'm not sure there IS a good blogging snack.)
We left town and stopped at a really good sushi place on the way out. I'd say Sansu in East Lansing has it beat, but that may just be personal bias. After another hour and 45 minutes of driving we got home (total time: 4 hours 45 minutes) and just hung around for the evening.
Sunday:
I think Sunday was just hanging out around home and taking Addy to see the sights. Kris did most of the work there, I was basically just there when there was food. Apparently they went to places I've never been, though, so I should probably check those out at some point.
Monday through Wednesday:
We got all packed up and drove to Bay Harbor in the northern part of the lower peninsula. We dropped Addy off at her apartment on the way and ate lunch in the area at a sandwich shop with a heck of a variety (and good food). After a total of about 5 1/2 hours in the car (plus the break for lunch) we got to the resort/hotel/Inn at Bay Harbor (total travel time: 10 hours). I'm pretty sure it's a nice summer resort because it's right on the lake and there's a nice touristy downtown and a golf course, but we were there kind of on the off season and only for a few days, so for us it was basically just relax-time. We wandered around, had dinner, and got a feel for the place, then just put in time for the evening. The next day we had breakfast at the hotel then walked around town for a while (it's a nice place, good variety of shops) and walked out to the docks where people supposedly park their boats (yes I know that's not the right terminology, but it sounds like something my dad would say, so it's staying).
Again, nice place. I think I need to live in a place near water eventually. Part of the reason we picked this place is that we booked a room there for the time and then got the same amount of money back to spend on spa stuff. All four of us got massages and my mom got something else... a facial I think. Good deal. We had some local pizza for dinner (kind of a family tradition when we travel) which was really good and did some more relaxing before going to bed. Wednesday we had breakfast with Addy and her mom and step-dad at the hotel (she lives near there and drove up after we dropped her off) then headed home. Five hours later, we were home and, once again, just kind of hanging out (ttt: 15 hours).
Thursday and Friday:
were pretty uneventful, but that's how I like my vacation time, so that's good. We went out to eat a few times and did family stuff, basically.
Saturday and Sunday:
Saturday we headed up to Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada to visit family. Twelve freaking hours of driving for about 10 hours of extended-family-time. (ttt: 27 hours) It was definitely really good to see everyone that we saw, though, and we only rarely get to actually see them (MAYBE twice a year, on a very good year) so it was worth it. After we got home, I got unpacked then repacked and drove back to campus (1 hour 20 minutes more, final ttt: about 28 hours 20 minutes). I know I forgot stuff, but oh well, that's what I remember and I don't really want it to be longer anyway. Overall a very good week! So good, in fact, that I actually went back home this weekend =P. But that's a different post.
Forgot, sort of
It's not so much that I forgot to write today as I forgot that I wouldn't really have time to. I'm home again for a day and a bit. I'll probably head back to my apartment tomorrow evening and have Sunday and Monday off there. It should be a pretty low key weekend. I'll be repotting/cutting plants to ribbons tomorrow so that I have some new plants for my apartment and hopefully the cat won't eat these ones. Tomorrow I should have more than enough time to do the full update. Today I bring you two sort-of-photos (pictures grabbed from the internet because I couldn't get real photos):
I saw that on the side of a bus in East Lansing. I thought it was pretty cool.
Well it's getting to be summer and the grounds crew on campus is planting the gardens around the plant biology buildings, which makes it really nice to walk around. The other day I saw three little red bird... not sure if they were cardinals because I don't remember seeing the crests, but my bird knowledge pretty much sucks. They looked like cardinals except for the crest, so I'm going to say they were. Anyway, it's nice to see all of the colors around the gardens and the fountains started up too, which was nice.
Time for bed!
I saw that on the side of a bus in East Lansing. I thought it was pretty cool.
Well it's getting to be summer and the grounds crew on campus is planting the gardens around the plant biology buildings, which makes it really nice to walk around. The other day I saw three little red bird... not sure if they were cardinals because I don't remember seeing the crests, but my bird knowledge pretty much sucks. They looked like cardinals except for the crest, so I'm going to say they were. Anyway, it's nice to see all of the colors around the gardens and the fountains started up too, which was nice.
Time for bed!
Augh, still falling behind
Well, here are a couple of links for you today!
First up: I first saw these referred to as the Devil's Cookies. Basically, they're bacon/chocolate-chip cookies. Since I don't really enjoy the taste of chocolate I won't be trying these out anytime soon, but I've only heard good things about them! Apparently err on the side of slightly too much salt and bacon if you decide to make these!
Second: my brother moved in to Notre Dame housing for the summer to start his Master's degree and apparently one of his apartment-mates is writing for a website. So far he's got a couple of hockey-focused articles and one baseball one. Considering I actually read the hockey ones and I'm not such a huge sports fan, I'd say it's a good place to go if you DO actually like reading about sports. Plus I guess he gets paid by the pageview, so it's helping him out too!
(EDIT: I forgot to actually LINK to it! http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/jwaldmann)
Tomorrow I WILL do a vacation/pictures post. Hopefully.
First up: I first saw these referred to as the Devil's Cookies. Basically, they're bacon/chocolate-chip cookies. Since I don't really enjoy the taste of chocolate I won't be trying these out anytime soon, but I've only heard good things about them! Apparently err on the side of slightly too much salt and bacon if you decide to make these!
Second: my brother moved in to Notre Dame housing for the summer to start his Master's degree and apparently one of his apartment-mates is writing for a website. So far he's got a couple of hockey-focused articles and one baseball one. Considering I actually read the hockey ones and I'm not such a huge sports fan, I'd say it's a good place to go if you DO actually like reading about sports. Plus I guess he gets paid by the pageview, so it's helping him out too!
(EDIT: I forgot to actually LINK to it! http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/jwaldmann)
Tomorrow I WILL do a vacation/pictures post. Hopefully.
Comic time!
And another link:
You'd think it's a huge exaggeration, but it's really not that far off the mark. It's kind of sad how often things make it to the public way before there's enough proof. Anyway, time for a bit more work then some lunch.
You'd think it's a huge exaggeration, but it's really not that far off the mark. It's kind of sad how often things make it to the public way before there's enough proof. Anyway, time for a bit more work then some lunch.
And... we're back.
So that was a week and a bit of vacation, plus one day back that I missed in updates. I pretty much knew it would happen, but I probably should have made a note of it before I went on vacation. Anyway, here's a link for today and later I'll put up a post about vacation with some pictures that I (hopefully still) have on my phone.
http://soytuaire.labuat.com/
It's a really neat flash site for a song. Just wait for it to load then move your mouse around as the song's playing. It's not English (I'm almost 100% sure it's Spanish, but I really have no idea what Portuguese sounds like, so I guess it could be Portuguese) but I like it regardless and the flash stuff to go along with it is really neat.
http://soytuaire.labuat.com/
It's a really neat flash site for a song. Just wait for it to load then move your mouse around as the song's playing. It's not English (I'm almost 100% sure it's Spanish, but I really have no idea what Portuguese sounds like, so I guess it could be Portuguese) but I like it regardless and the flash stuff to go along with it is really neat.
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Studying is eating my time, (plus it makes me pretty uninteresting in general) so that's why posts are sparse currently.
I did find this, however, and for those who didn't see it the first time, it's pretty entertaining.
I did find this, however, and for those who didn't see it the first time, it's pretty entertaining.
Four days
Well that was a pretty fun but almost entirely unproductive weekend. I got some grocery shopping done and edited the final paper for my bioinformatics class, but that was all in the past two hours. Oh well, at least I did something other than games and TV. This week I have my second (and last) exam for my Eukaryotic Genetics class on Thursday and I have to review a different group's paper for Bioinformatics either tomorrow or Tuesday, but other than that it's just lab work and studying. I really need to get going on the studying so I'll probably be spending most of my non-lab time doing that. Friday I'm taking off to go to my brother's graduation (which is actually on Saturday, but travel and bits of the preliminary stuff is on Friday) and then all of the week after is family vacation time!
I didn't end up going to see Wolverine... the friends I was going to go see it with said they heard it sucked a lot. I think I'll go see it sometime anyway, although "sometime" is going to have to be in more than two weeks so we'll see I guess. I have a movie theater basically down the street that I haven't been to yet, so it could be fun just to go. The theater's in a mall that I actually haven't been to either... geez I really should leave my apartment now and then. I guess I do, just not without either friend hangout time or an errand, so basically I need to go have more fun outside of my apartment on my own. Right. I think I'll stick to games... or maybe I should actually finally pick up running now that it's reliably warm.
(Also, since I missed Saturday, here's a link to make up for it! For the Love of Cooking is a blog that I discovered, but I have no idea how. It's got a bunch of really good looking recipes and they're all from an actual person who has a blog which, for some reason, makes them more trustworthy (for me) than recipe stockpiling sites.)
I didn't end up going to see Wolverine... the friends I was going to go see it with said they heard it sucked a lot. I think I'll go see it sometime anyway, although "sometime" is going to have to be in more than two weeks so we'll see I guess. I have a movie theater basically down the street that I haven't been to yet, so it could be fun just to go. The theater's in a mall that I actually haven't been to either... geez I really should leave my apartment now and then. I guess I do, just not without either friend hangout time or an errand, so basically I need to go have more fun outside of my apartment on my own. Right. I think I'll stick to games... or maybe I should actually finally pick up running now that it's reliably warm.
(Also, since I missed Saturday, here's a link to make up for it! For the Love of Cooking is a blog that I discovered, but I have no idea how. It's got a bunch of really good looking recipes and they're all from an actual person who has a blog which, for some reason, makes them more trustworthy (for me) than recipe stockpiling sites.)
WEEKEND!
Woohoo weekend time! I figured out what's a good thing to post:
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE HD
I'll probably be going to see that this weekend. Hope it's good!
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE HD
I'll probably be going to see that this weekend. Hope it's good!
Thursday's links
I thought I had a bunch of neat links that I had just forgotten to put up yesterday... it turns out I have one pretty good one, one browser game, and one kind of neat one.
The pretty good one is notalwaysright.com. It's basically quotes of customers that were... less than right. It's quite funny overall.
The browser game is Crush the Castle. You get a trebuchet (which my computer doesn't recognize as a word...) and you have to knock down castles in each level. It's pretty good and it's been a while since "physics is fun" actually applied and was true (for me anyway). Maybe I just don't play enough browser games.
The kind of neat one is Google Chrome's Youtube page. They have a bunch of short videos up basically advertising Chrome (it's Google's internet browser in case you hadn't heard of it) but they're pretty good, especially if you've got nothing to do.
Anyway, that was supposed to be yesterday's post... now let's find something for today!
The pretty good one is notalwaysright.com. It's basically quotes of customers that were... less than right. It's quite funny overall.
The browser game is Crush the Castle. You get a trebuchet (which my computer doesn't recognize as a word...) and you have to knock down castles in each level. It's pretty good and it's been a while since "physics is fun" actually applied and was true (for me anyway). Maybe I just don't play enough browser games.
The kind of neat one is Google Chrome's Youtube page. They have a bunch of short videos up basically advertising Chrome (it's Google's internet browser in case you hadn't heard of it) but they're pretty good, especially if you've got nothing to do.
Anyway, that was supposed to be yesterday's post... now let's find something for today!