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A local Asian bistro organizes its flow of people in a way I don’t think I’ve seen before. You enter on the left side of the restaurant. Along the left wall are giant menus, so while you’re waiting you can choose your food. The menu is made up of proteins and sauces, so you choose, […]

Just finished a very fun dinner party at my house, just my parents and a friend. If you ever need a business manager, hire Julie Brown. (If she had a blog, I’d link to it.) These dinner parties are fun and interesting. The idea: I want to get interesting people together. My ideal would be […]

I’m beginning to think that the hardest part about teaching (for me, at least, right now) is figuring out where to start so that the student(s) will understand. What do you assume that the student knows? You can’t know what that student knows when they walk into the classroom, or signs up for a course. […]

Here’s the arcade game cabinet, which I’ve dubbed “The Machine”: And here’s the full list of games I have installed and running on it: Asteroids Battle Zone Centipede Castlevania (original) Contra Defender Dig Dug Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr. Donkey Kong 3 Frogger Galaga Golden Axe Gorf Heavy Barrel Indiana Jones and the Temple of […]

Inspired by Brennen’s entry, here are my most frequently-entered commands: $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf \”%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’ |sort -rn|head216 ./die97 vi38 cd34 ls17 su15 ./generate_homepage.py14 ./upload.sh11 b9 apachectl6 ftp “die” rolls dice, which I’ve used a lot for role-playing. “b” opens my blog in vi. So, what does this say? I’ve rolled a lot of […]