Week 1 of school has been remarkably difficult. Not for the reasons you would suspect, because it has nothing to do with academics. Life has been difficult because I’ve made it difficult. I’ve taken out the fluff and reduced it, I’ve boiled out the impurities and I’ve reduced it, I’ve hammered out all the air [...]

     I recently found out about the Division of Management Information after calling the admissions office and decided to hunt around and see what kind of data I could pull up. As it turns out, you can grab the enrollment numbers by major quite handily, which is what I was looking for. Just for fun, here [...]

     I ran about 2 miles to Krannert today to undergo barefoot training. I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do, but it was going to involve the pebble/rock beds ontop of the building.      What I ended up doing was walking 10 large circles around the top of the building. My feet prickled with [...]

     It is always worth it.

I just won an entrenched battle against Apartment 21.      The war began long ago in the annals of history, but the final, decisive battle started last night at 9pm and only just ended. Last Night – The Cleanup      I came back to an apartment literally filled with trash. Not even the trash that had been [...]

I took a little hike. THAT LASTED THREE DAYS AND 130 MILES. Here’s how it happened.

     I recently discovered Metaweb, by the simple fact that it had been bought by Google. Metaweb does some really fascinating stuff involving “entities”:      For those of us not willing to watch the five minute video (I generally fall into this category), an entity is kind of like an ID for discrete things: people, places, or [...]

…and I don’t mean World of Warcraft.

I just had a friend tell me that every day is worth writing about. This is something I can agree with, so today begins a new experiment. I’m going to try to write something in this blog at the end of every day – summation or random thoughts, or, most likely, a combination of the [...]

Random blatherings.