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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Lessig
On Thursday night I attended a great lecture by Lawrence Lessig, founder of the Free Culture movement. His lectures edge into the realm of spoken-word performance. The recording, if you’d like to see it, is here. Flumotion did a great … Continue reading
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Rabbit
I did my first animal experiment today, on a rabbit. This is a bit of an overstatement, in two ways. First, I never touched the rabbit. One of the lab technicians is the designated animal handler, and he was in … Continue reading
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Roundup
At the bus stop today, a gray-haired policeman rolled up in his Crown Vic and started talking politely to tall thin homeless man. The man sounded a bit deranged, or maybe just intoxicated, but calm. The officer seemed to know … Continue reading
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Lazy
Today I stayed in my pajamas and did nothing. I wrote a few hundred lines of C to do something complicated and not terribly important. I ate my roommate’s chocolate chip pancakes for lunch. February is a good month for … Continue reading
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Mystery flat
Bicycle got another flat tire while sitting in my bedroom. Mysterious. Possibly an indication that I am doing something wrong.
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Pres.
This town takes Presidents’ Day way more seriously than I remembered. I biked to work in the middle of rush hour, and yet the roads were completely unclogged. The bike racks were empty at work, and I’m virtually the only … Continue reading
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Towed, mark 4
For the fourth time in four years, my car got towed. The first time it was because I was parked in a (incorrectly marked) permit-only zone. They eventually determined that they were at fault, and rescinded the fine, but not … Continue reading
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Inertial
Not much changing in my life this week. Rehearsal tonight was nice; we sang some new songs that are going to be fun. We’re singing at some Valentine’s Day thing at Faneuil Hall on Saturday at noon. Otherwise not much … Continue reading
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Strange Days
Yesterday, I was woken up at 6:30 AM by severe nausea. I must have caught a norovirus from my roommate, who’d been sick last week, so I knew what I was in for. Since I was already awake, I checked … Continue reading
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No, you can’t do that with H.264
A lot of commercial software comes with H.264 encoders and decoders, and some computers arrive with this software preinstalled. This leads a lot of people to believe that they can legally view and create H.264 videos for whatever purpose they … Continue reading
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