Steve Jobs! You rascal! This article I just read said that users of the AT&T EDGE data networks are noticing huge increases in speeds. One of the major head-scratching, why-is-apple-doing-this kind of complaints about the iPhone is that they went with EDGE which is a whole lot slower than 3G. Well, looks like they knew what they were doing all along!

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June 27, 2007

Bite, bite, swallow

The Indy did a combo piece on competitive eaters and my roomie Billy. I did some of the guitar work on the song… admittedly not my best, but it is what it is.

I need to coach Billy a bit in the art of providing an interview that doesn’t make us sound like a prize pair of idiots:

“We have a lot of get-rich-quick schemes that end up making about $50. Or we do things that get a lot of attention but bring in no money or women.”

June 26, 2007

Link Thundercats!

My blogging has been spotty. I can’t tell if things are boring and therefore nothing to report of if I have a skewed perspective on what’s entertaining. In the meantime, some links for your ass:

  • Average faces
  • Photos:

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    June 22, 2007

    Braille Condom

    Braille condom

    Note: None of this happened.

    June 14, 2007

    Conjoined

    conjoined trees

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    June 11, 2007

    Venn Diagram

    Venn Diagram

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    June 10, 2007

    Night Running

    Back from camping and still have mountain-primed lungs, so during my run I was feeling the easy stride. It was like the way my body should work; like me minus all the asthma. I left at dusk and thought I had time before the real darkness set in, but man the sun hit that horizon hard and I was running in low-contrast grayscale. Snakes slithered away from my lightly patting feet, deer jumped away out of nowhere and I was starting to get a little freaked out. Then: Snorting and growling and it was coming towards me. “Bear” is what my straight-from-the-Smokies self thought, but I quickly saw it was two large dogs coming for me. Wolves? I was unsure, but the unspoken language was that they were genuinely after my blood. I didn’t scream, in fact, I don’t think I could replicate the sound I made. My body shot into some sort of crouch and I (embarrassing in hindsight) roared. It’s the only way to really describe the sound I made at those dogs. They sort of hovered around me for a bit and finally took off when rocks were lobbed at them. I come back from bear-infested mountains for this?

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    • Mitch Hedberg - An influence of Demetri Martin, who is pretty damn good
    • Richard Pryor - Chuck and I were talking about PR and I brought up how the positive spin that PR folks put on the face-burning thing was that it was free-base related.
    • Richard Parker - Reading this makes me want to read Life of Pi. I desire to understand my own personal Richard Parker.
    • Mos Def - I smashed it like it was an Idaho potato.
    • Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco - 420.
    • Hartless Bastards - Coming to the cradle. The lead girl looks kind of like Beth Gibbons, so I wanted to check if it was.
    • B battery (vacuum tubes) - Not as common anymore because when you say it people think you have a stutter.
    • A battery (vacuum tubes) -
    • Dime
    • Proof Coinage
    • United States one hundred-dollar bill
    • Large denominations of United States currency
    • Salmon P. Chase - This guy seemed to really understand money
    • Energy Drink - people keep asking for them at the cradle.
    • Redline (drink) - particularly potent.
    • United States five-dollar bill - In addition to the proof dime, I also found a five-dollar note.
    • Flowerpot Island
    • Year 2000 problem - thinking about Office Space
    • James Bond - don’t remember why I was thinking of this. Since seeing Casino Royale, I’ve had little vacation-style bond fantasies. Say what you will about the guy, he does end up in some picturesque places.
    • Casino Royale (2006 film) -
    • Office Space - saw some at the Cradle
    • Epilepsy
    • Wisconsin card sort
    • Santa Fe Institute - Renowned research facility for complex systems. Kind of a dream job.
    • Nicholas Metropolis - Monte Carlo method
    • Melanie Mitchell - One of the most influential authors of my life
    • John Henry Holland - Father of genetic algorithms
    • Theldrow - an old mac computer game
    • Physical Graffiti - The next few… I’m not so proud of, but you can see the click trail pretty obviously
    • Led Zeppelin IV -
    • Aleister Crowley -
    • Seal of Solomon -
    • Lust for Life (song) - Possible Rho Band song
    • God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols song) - ditto
    • Richard Branson - This guy fascinates me.
    • Michael Richards - The fourth “Richard” on the list. What’s up?
    • Portishead - When is their next album coming out? This year some time (supposedly); I hope someone tells me.
    • Blur (band) - Boys and Girls came on the iPod…
    • Ben Folds - …then a Ben Folds Five song.
    • Aphasia - I had always called it “aphonia”, but I think this is more accurate
    • Dysphasia - the term has fallen out of favor as it is too easily mistaken for “dysphagia”
    • Led Zeppelin - the song remains the lame
    • Kuru (disease) - prions are scary. real scary. Still, to fully understand them could lead to powerful applications.
    • Sickle-cell disease - do sickle-cells transmogrify neighboring cells to also be sickles?
    • Prion
    • Skiffle - “It’s not a skiffle band!”
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    June 6, 2007

    It’s Nature, Bro.

    It’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, homies. Ms. Greenburg sez that if i’m gonna get any extra credit i need to really start applying myself and something i could do would be to show what i learned about in environmentle scinces. so i just talked about some nature move i found on youtube. here is is:


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