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Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Mongol Rally: an 8000 miles from London, England to Ulan Bator, Mongolia. In cars with 1L engines or worse. (Although to be fair, the rules say that you have to start out in such … Continue reading →

A conversation at dinner last night had someone comment about one of my recent posts; this led to a bunch of confused looks around the table and remarks like, “wait, you blogged something?” In resposne to this — well, really … Continue reading →

March 2003: The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of “french fries” to “freedom fries,” in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country’s refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq. … Continue reading →

Dude. It’s been, like, a month since I wrote anything here. I’d like to be able to tell you that I’ve been off saving the world and stuff, or building geometrical shapes in Siberia so that aliens will know that … Continue reading →

I feel very adult today: I’ve both cast my vote in an election and gone to a dentist entirely of my own free will. The voting thing isn’t anything new, since I generally make it a point to vote in … Continue reading →

Yes, I’m still here. I spent the last few weeks wandering around Ontario, often staying in places with little to no internet connectivity, so even had I been inclined to write in this space I was more or less unable … Continue reading →

So most people who care about such things know that Google Mail uses the Google “AdWords” scripts to supply links to websites related to text in your e-mail. A strange side effect of this is when you’re looking in your … Continue reading →

Today was the last day of classes in my semester here. I now have a week of mostly slack time before the Great Exam Marathon next Thursday, following which I’ve got a few weeks of vacation, during which I plan … Continue reading →

Crooked Timber’s doing a Susanna Clarke seminar (or really, a Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell seminar), which is totally great. I was utterly charmed by this novel when I picked it up last year, and if you’ve not read it … Continue reading →

The good news is that my printing problems have ceased. The not-great-but-ok news is that, as anticipated, all of my principally unix-based software (most notably, my TeX tree) got shunted off to the side, and it’s easier to just go … Continue reading →