Movies to see from Cannes

1. Paranoid Park (Gus van Zant)
2. Sicko (Moore)
3. ??? (Cohen brothers, psycho killer, …)
4. one other I can’t remember now

Best Sandwich Ever: PB & J

I have discovered that Peanut Butter and Jam (not Jelly) is the best sandwich ever. Here is my new favorite sandwich:

1 slice “oatey” or “nutty” bread (e.g., Arnold’s Health Nut Bread)
1 blob Natural, Chunky Peanut Butter (e.g., Smuckers Natural Chunky)
1 blob Fruit Jam (e.g., Bonne Maman Raspberry Reserve)

Boo-yah!

Yes, it is open faced as you can see from the ingredient list.

Incidentally, in the background of the photo you can see our newly tiled back-splash.

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

Happy Towel Day: http://www.towelday.kojv.net/

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency came up in the blogosphere recently because, I guess, a “radio” production of said book is being made by some Swedes on the internet. Google book title + podcast to find it. I really enjoyed this book, though it was quite hard to follow the whole thing. Alot of effort.

On another book note, I’m reading Ian MacDonald’s new book called “Brasyl”. This is marketed as post-cyberpunk sci-fi, or something like that. The first 30 pages are somewhat boring and filled with all kinds of words I don’t understand (because they’re Brazilian slang or Portuguese?), but it is getting better. Maybe its just that I don’t like the first story so much. There are two more in the book apparently.

Mesa Trail Run

Fence Post, originally uploaded by brunoj.

Here is a picture that I took of the Mesa Trail trailhead I mentioned in a previous post. The run was great, though I only made it 46 minutes up the trail (and made a wrong turn at one point which cost another 10 minutes). No idea how far in terms of distance I got. I need a GPS coordinate logging watch capable of taking photos along the run. That would be nice; and MP3 playing while we’re at it.

LaTeX Support

So wordpress is supposed to have good LaTeX support, so I thought I would try it out. Here is a formal expression from my thesis.

Here is the Weyl Character Formula:

Here it is again as a fraction:

Update: I completely screwed up the Weyl Character formula trying to reproduce it from memory. That’s embarrassing.

At the library : trail runs : outrageous print costs

I’m am at the South Bend Main Library, waiting for Sarah so we can get on the plane. All the computers have cameras now so you get to see me waiting, as well as read about it.

My only thought at the moment is that the library charges $0.15 per page to print. This is outrageous.

In Colorado I’m planning on two trail runs.

1. Mesa Trail, Boulder, CO. 6.6 mi with no net elevation change. From http://thoos.com/hiking/places/Mesa+Trail
   

   Many runners consider this to be one of the best trail runs in the United States.

2. Gem Lake Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. Starts at 7740 ft. 2 miles with +1090 feet elevation gain.
   

   At 8,830 feet, Gem Lake lives up to its name. Granitic boulders, ledges and cliffs surround this small rain fed jewel. The trail travels along south and east facing slopes wandering in and out of a couple narrow canyons between granitic outcroppings. Interesting rock formations inspire the imagination. Several sections offer great views of Estes Park, Twin Sisters, Longs Peak, and the Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Lola: Purveyor of Fine Beverages

Lola: Purveyor of Fine Beverages, originally uploaded by brunoj.

I was off-loading pictures from my camera before leaving for Colorado today and was taking some random shots like this one. Lola was just outside rooting around in the dirt, hence the dirt-on-nose. She has been looking more and more like a Newfoundland lately, partly I think due to her finally gaining weight since she left the shelter.

Blogs I read

In place of a blogrole, I prefer to just list the blogs I’m reading at the moment.

Here is a list (google the keyword to find the feed).

1. Kotaku
2. Xbox-Scene
3. XKCD Web comic
4. TextMate Blog
5. Ars Mathematica
6. Not Even Wrong (Physics/Math)
7. What’s New (T. Tao’s blog)
8. Collision Detection (games, science, squids)
9. Feelgood Librarian (personal friend)
10. Boing-Boing
11. Slashdot
12. Lifehacker
13. Compiler (wired blog)
14. Google Sightseeing

Rhododendron

Rhododendron 1, originally uploaded by brunoj.

This is the rhododendron in my backyard, taken in early spring 2007.

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