ם Linkdump.

Posted on May 29, 2008 at 11:17 pm

• I love Isabella Rossellini. For the Sundance Film Festival, she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a series of shorts called Green Porno. In each short, she dresses up like some bug, and then explains and simulates their reproduction. It is, in a word, fantastic. Potentially NSFW, if you work in an office full of insects.
• Like the Internet? Watch Weezer’s new video for their single “Pork and Beans” and see how many Internet memes/YouTube sensations you recognize to check your pop-nerd-cred.
• Side effect of the Weezer video: discovering the Daft Hands video and assorted spinoffs.
• Lastly, the geek in me must share this article about Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine, complete with this spectacular anecdote:
  

  We were arguing about what the name of the company should be when Richard walked in, saluted, and said, “Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what’s my assignment?” The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.

  After a hurried private discussion (”I don’t know, you hired him…”), we informed Richard that his assignment would be to advise on the application of parallel processing to scientific problems.

  “That sounds like a bunch of baloney,” he said. “Give me something real to do.”
  

  So we sent him out to buy some office supplies.

That is all.

ם New Year’s Resolution

Posted on January 23, 2008 at 2:51 am

It’s the New Year. (Yeah, yeah, I’m 3 weeks late. So sue me.)

But this isn’t a post about resolutions for 2008. It’s a retrospective on my 2007 resolution.

I’ve always done fairly well academically, but during college I hadn’t ever had a perfect straight-A semester. Since I was going to graduate a semester early, 2007 perfectly contained the last two semesters of my college career, so I made my resolution on December 31st, 2006, that in 2007 I’d get a 4.0 one of those semesters.

Summer of 2007 rolled around, and I came close. Two A’s, two A–’s. 3.85 GPA. Close, but no cigar.

I was down to the wire with only one semester left. But I stuck the landing. Booyah.

2007 Resolution: Completed.

(2008 doesn’t have a traditional resolution, per se. It’s more of a curious project. More on that later.)

ם Geek Points

Posted on September 23, 2007 at 4:38 pm

1. I went to the doctor and she gave me an inhaler.
2. I went to a screening of a documentary about a typeface. (By the way, it was fantastic.)
3. I became the President of the NYU Math Club.

geekpoints++;    (Oh God, that didn’t help.)