A friend of mine sent me a message telling me about the music of “Girl Talk“, a DJ from Pittsburgh. I’m not such a huge fan of this type of music (or at least I didn’t use to be), but I’m starting to discover interesting stuff around that I actually like. Girl Talk samples popular music . . . → Read More: The 6 months music challenge 2: Girl Talk
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A friend of mine has had me considering the Red River Century for over a month now. I was pretty decided on trying it out (and therefore training for it). I was going to start training seriously when I came back from New Jersey, at the end of may, but unfortunately I sprained an ankle a . . . → Read More: training for a century (or how 3 hours in the sorching sun made me appreciate that open source collaborative software could save a town) I’m a strong supporter of free and open source software. To be honest, I’m a supporter of free and open source anything really. That’s why I contribute to wikitravel (sporadically, but still), why I started wikiscuba (well, still trying to make it take off, really), openstreetmap and anything I can get my hands on that suits . . . → Read More: The 6 months music challenge, Issue 1: Hipster, Please! Compilations I’ve been signed up on jpgmag for quite a while now, but I’ve just submitted an image for the theme “Creatures”. Go vote for me, now! (You’ll need to sign up, but I’m sure you want to anyway!) [Update 1: I screwed something up. I wanted to submit a second image to the theme and discovered you . . . → Read More: This should be in the shameless self-promotion category I think I came across a report on slashdot (the geek’s black hole of productivity) about the toplogy of wikipedia. Basically, looking at which articles link to what, they’re trying to figure out what the center of wikipedia is, the article from which you end up the quickest to any other article on . . . → Read More: Small World Networks of wikipedia As Code Monkey has shown, the best way to become an internet sensation is to sing about what geeks like. Weezer seems to have just come out with a new video for “Pork and Beans”. I don’t really know much about Weezer, to be frank. I’m a pianist and I listen to quite a bit of music, . . . → Read More: Weezer’s “Pork and Beans” internet sensation I saw an ad for snap by lavalife while on the subway in New York this week and I was intrigued to say the least. Snap is actually a contest. Lavalife submit questions regularly along the lines of “Photograph your favorite or ideal pet” or “Photograph something with your favorite color”. It sounds cheezy, but I actually find it interesting. Continue reading cell phone + camera + dating site + internet = ? I just saw a link to the better world club on the PhD comics Cecilia’s blog. Ont he BWC website, I learned that AAA (and by extension CAA) lobbies, using money from the dues, against sensible environment-friendly policies. They lobby for more road construction and have been, at times, known to oppose policies that would impose . . . → Read More: AAA (and CAA) lobby against the environment I had a little bicycle accident today. Nothing really bad. I was riding back from a meeting, going to my office. This is normally a 15 minutes ride, from my advisor’s office to mine… had it not been for a hole. It appears to have been left by a road crew at some point. It’s a perfectly rectangular hole, blocking about half the shoulder. It’s conveniently located right in the middle of the nice wide shoulder there, exactly where you’d want to ride. To make it even worse, the hole is not very deep and not very wide, so you don’t tend to see it, so you don’t tend to see it far ahead of time. So I went right over it, had a short discussion with gravity and lost. Three cars were nice enough to stop, wondering if I was ok. This was nice. Nothing incredibly bad happened, only annoying. More importantly, this made me think I should write this post about whether one should wear a bicycle helmet. I had been, for years, a strong supporter of bicycle helmets. Then I read a well formulated opinion which made me doubt bicycle helmets. I ran numbers on the back on an envelope two days ago which are making me reconsider again. I’m now pretty convinced bicycle helmets are indeed useful for most people riding bicycles. The justification below the fold. Continue reading Going Down Hard: A Bicycle Helmet’s Perspective I’m writing this post using my brand new Aopen motherboard. (Nothing to brag about, it’s a quick thing I found on ebay that would support my athlon 64 single core socket 939. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, just know that a very important part of my computer died unexpectedly and I had . . . → Read More: Living in the desert: A lesson for the computer user |
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