Archive for the ‘Real World’ Category
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Never again will I think that human relationships are complicated.
Symbion is a tiny animal about half a millimetre long, shaped like a bulbous tube with a ring of tiny hairs – cilia – at one end. They live on the hairy mouthparts of Norway lobsters, with tens or even hundreds ...
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
I ran across a story the other day about an England EMS service that screwed up and was categorizing falls from a height of more than 6 feet not serious enough to warrant an emergency response (within 8 minutes).
So the initial read (admittedly from slashdot), made the impression that there ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Hot damn. (I know, lame username)
I'm going to try to use it as a log to keep people up to date with how the trip is going. Also so that people know I'm still alive (or can come save me if something goes horribly wrong). If you read "They put ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Things that I noticed/learned in Brussels.
It's very easy to spend a lot of money on chocolate.
Pretty girl chocolatiers will give you free chocolate if you flirt with them.
They sell waffles everywhere. Even in the subway.
It's entirely too easy to accidently ride the subway for free.
I don't know French or Dutch, ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Some minor Ted updates. Or major if you want to think of it that way.
New interface, new version of Wordpress. Added some recipes to the side menu. Still trying to decide where to put the penguins in this one. Let me know if you have ideas.
Don't normally use this for ...
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