time reversal

I took a break from studying for the qualifying exam to stretch my legs for a bit on my road bike. This was my first trip with skinny tires on the urbana pavement, and I was greatly pleased. This is the only place I have ever been where the pavement is smoother than the sidewalk. [...]

I just got back from a two week adventure helping Ruth move out to Boulder. It was a blast and I will write it up soon, but the story of the day is that I have moved off to Urbana. On Wednesday morning I woke up, ate breakfast, and drove 10 hours northward to my [...]

My friend Keith and I went kayaking yesterday morning on the Okatoma Rivers just outside of Hattiesburg, MS. We took the thirteen mile “upper” route and thoroughly exhausted ourselves. The river was pretty low, so there was not much current to help us along. That aside, it was a surprisingly pleasant trip and neither of [...]

While Ruth and I were at the beach, we shared an interesting fruit called a kiwano, or horned melon, as pictured below. It is essentially a yellowish-orange, spiky shell full of goo-covered seeds. The goo is what you eat, and it is quite the social event. One has to show off one’s teeth and tongue [...]

I spent the last three days at my dad’s parent’s house in the Florence, MS enjoying the weather, fishing, excessively eating, playing with their Siberian husky, and doing a great deal of chaise lounging. One night we had dinner at this little place called Matilda’s in Mount Olive, MS, and it serves as the new [...]

I have been reading a lot about programming graphics cards over the last month or so, and it turns out this is quite a blossoming field. NVIDIA has their CUDA language and their new Tesla hardware which would allow Ben to have 240 cores! Also to be able to do a Teraflop of calculating. This [...]

Today my grandfather successfully hatched his first duck. It is of the Pekin variety and has been named Miracle due to the long odds against it actually surviving to maturity. The image below was taken a few hours after it came out of its shell, and I feel it truly captures the cuteness of the [...]

Over the weekend I went fishing with my dad on the Ross Barnett Reservoir. The fishing was terrible, but the weather was great and we finished breaking in the engine on his new boat. It is fast; max speed attained so far is 77.4 mph.
In other news, the scripting language Python is not named after [...]

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While Ruth and I were driving to Florida last week, we stumbled upon an interesting sculpture on Mississippi Highway 49 South. The piece itself is made out of metal, a feat of welding I find quite impressive that is quite obscured by the paint job. If I had any insight as to the motivations of [...]

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So, Ruth and I are still on the beach. Our kayak rentals are expiring this morning, so I got up at six to make a little more fun before returning them. Ruth was too tired to go, so I went fishing instead. The bait fish were schooling like I have never seen before, and I [...]