Archive for December, 2010

So Christmas rolled around and for the first time in years, there was Turkey (thanks everyone who showed up, especially Rob, who prepared the turkey!!!) We also attempted to build a gingerbread house… without gingerbread… and without icing (we ended up using an assortment of lady fingers, waffle crackers, melted marshmallows and melted chocolate laced [...]

I made an angry bird.

From the first page of the C&O 430 (Algebraic Enumeration) exam: There are 20 questions. You may answer any subset of them. I will compute your mark using the following scheme. First, I will assign a mark 0 ≤ mi ≤ 1 for each question. Then I will compute: This will be converted to a percentage by [...]

We were given Christmas ornaments to decorate at work. At first I was just going to draw on mine with some permanent marker, but then my coworker just upped the ante with this the other day: Challenge accepted!

Hitachino Nest

8, Dec 2010

Bought a few bottles of Hitachino Nest from SOGO the other day mostly for the design. I mean, what could be better than owls on your beer… right? So far, I’ve tried the RedRice [RR] (apparently it has hints of sake in it) and White Ale [WA]. Both were slightly below average for me, although [...]

So I have returned from jumping off moving busses in India and summiting Mt. Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. India was intense. We had to change our plans on the first day since we couldn’t get a train to Varanasi like we originally planned. Instead, we went from New Delhi to Jaipur to Ranthambhore to Agra [...]


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