Archive for November, 2005
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
After my brief foray into the world of the culinary arts for Thanksgiving, I was fortunate enough to find a website seemingly built just for me: Cooking for Engineers. The tagline for the site?
Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!
I have only briefly browsed ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
One in six Americans have at some point tried to sell a good online, reports InformationWeek. I find these numbers very surprising. Amanda Lenhart disagrees:
"I'd say these numbers were only moderately surprising," said Amanda Lenhart, the senior research specialist at Pew Internet who co-authored the survey.
One in six Americans. Wow. ...
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Aidin Vaziri at the San Francisco Chronicle wrote an opinion piece calling for the end of music CDs in the wake of the rise of the iPod and Internet radio. While I don't think a great case is made for dumping CDs altogether, Aidin does provide a nice set of ...
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
I have been meaning to write this note for some time, but for whatever reason I haven't done it until now. I bought the album Statement by the band Nonpoint a year or so ago, and I have been listening to it rather often ever since. In fact, of all ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
The Texas Longhorns played their rivalry game this morning against Texas A&M and continued on their undefeated path to the Rose Bowl for the national championship game. The final score was 40-29, but the game felt much closer than that.
After an underwhelming performance in front of a national audience, Vince ...
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005
For the third year in a row, a group of us here at Caltech got together for a pot-luck Thanksgiving dinner. The first year, I brought green bean casserole. The next year, I "helped" Ariele make roast vegetables. This year, I made deviled eggs.
I used the recipe in The ...
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