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  • I was born January 41st of the Martian year 12 http://is.gd/LKM4 #
  • Apparently I’m growing a beard, just in time for summer. #
  • Share a short account of your favorite bicycle road trip with AASHTO here: http://is.gd/LQZq #
  • my office is so lonely. #
  • help, help! The GOogle is down! #
  • going to be on the local CBS news tonight with http://bikewise.org #
  • Can anybody out there record the http://cbs2.com 11pm news tonight and send/upload video of the http://bikewise.org segment? I have no TV! #
  • 2 minute CBS segment on http://bikewise.org available here: http://is.gd/MZcU #
  • Obama & Congress seek to permanently suppress release of images of detainee abuse under FOIA. See: http://is.gd/NoQs & http://is.gd/NoQs #
  • saturating a 100Mb/s network connection for like the first time evar. #
  • Watched another good @longnow talk, on their 1000 year old system of sustainably farming rice. How can the west avoid overconfidence? #
  • Er, that would be the Balinese who did the rice farming, not @longnow #
  • found a hummingbird nest in our courtyard, made of spiderwebs, hair, lint and fluff, built on a string of xmas lights. #
  • thinking about golden section min/max finding while bicycling up and down a hill. #
  • watching a movie about Earthships: http://www.garbagewarrior.com #
  • This paper seems done, and yet, somehow, unsatisfactory. #
  • Screw the golden section. Brute forcing it will be faster than re-writing to optimize. #
  • homeward with groceries and to crack the whip at the lappy. Compute! #
  • hey world, go screw yourself. #
  • especially you, cops. #
  • We don’t want to believe what we know. #
  • Hmm. Somone in Washington DC looked at my resume. That can’t be good. #
  • meat or pets? #
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  • heading back to my nocturnal phase. #
  • making like a social animal… #
  • looking forward to having a sustainability reading group! #
  • disappointed with California voters, but not with our court. #
  • squandering another beautiful California spring day in front of a computer. #
  • Thermus thermophilus hard at work once again: Compost at 150F 3 days after turning. #
  • 摸着石头过河 #
  • voy a tratar de mostrar que en verdad las tazas de Caltech hecho con maiz estan compostables. #
  • Hay unas semanas cuando haciendo nada es un dolor. Porque? #
  • I refuse to be the crazy person. Obviously it’s everyone else who’s nuts. #
  • Hallelujah! Let the collaborative bicycle map annotations begin!!! http://bikewise.org/ #
  • twilight bike ride. #
  • adding some more data to http://bikewise.org #
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  • incredibly, flying to SF from LA emits the same CO2 as driving to SLO from LA. #
  • Tired of crappy metadata. Unsure about having kids. I think these are unrelated issues. #
  • esta usando Facebook en Espanol tambien. #
  • regresando a mi jardin para beber un poco y conversar con la chica rosa #
  • pinche afidos #
  • Michael Pollan gave an incredible talk at the Long Now. If only he could stop with the “um” and “uh”. #
  • would have voted NO on everything, if the hadn’t moved my polling place. #
  • los patios de Andalucia que estan llenos con habitabilidad. Las ciudades del pasado estan las ciudades del futuro. #
  • o talvez, estan una parte del futuro. #
  • went to Pasadena bike master plan mtg. It could have been worse. I felt like my input was received, but may get disregarded. #
  • Well, at least Pasadena isn’t being invaded by the mongol hordes. #
  • Yesterday was a civics triple threat: voting, public hearing, *and* a jury duty notice! #
  • My take on the goals and objectives of the Pasadena Bicycle Master Plan that were proposed at yesterday’s public workshop: http://is.gd/BMVD #
  • Even with Firebug, I still kind of hate CSS. #
  • going to the dollar store to get dish soap and TP. I hate the dollar store, but there it is. #
  • Happy that people are using the SatStress library! Sad that they don’t seem to know what a library is. http://code.google.com/p/satstress/ #
  • Woo hoo! All votes are in and Wikipedia (actually, all Wikimedia projects) will change licensing to CC-BY-SA 3.0: http://is.gd/BX7F #
  • done writing about the eigencrap, heading to Altadena Food Fair Market for Levantine foodstuffs. #
  • ready to enjoy a little of the SoCal weather. #
  • this is the 10th time I’ve seen the jacaranda trees bloom at Caltech. I think that’s enough. #
  • going to bed with Karl Popper and Michelle. #
  • fertlizing cucumbers and tomatoes #
  • Turned some compost, had some sex, need some coffee. #
  • popcorn popped in chili oil is extremely tasty. #
  • “The” rat has officially become “a” rat. As in, one of “the rats”. This is war. #
  • escuchando a cabeza radio #
  • What will cities be for in 50 years? I say conviviality, and the efficient utilization of material goods: http://is.gd/D1kn #
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  • Maybe I should have gone to grad school with Peter Ward? #
  • Dealing with a bunch of paperwork. At least half of it doesn’t actually involve any cellulose. #
  • Adopting a 5 year old would kind of be like hiring a live-in nanny… a really, really cheap nanny. #
  • Why not adopt a person you actually know and like, instead of a random individual? http://is.gd/z4it #
  • In the time it took 150 people to die of swine flu, 65,000 died of TB. Yikes. #
  • This kind of thing makes me wish I could read Arabic, Russian, and Chinese too: http://is.gd/zgFV #
  • Wow. Richard Rhodes actually wrote me back. #
  • Need to get milk for coffee. Early morning. #
  • Even TSA is annoyed by the arbitrary and ever novel regulations. #
  • On the ground in sf. Need coffee. Ugh. #
  • Found sir karl at green apple. I love used bookstores. #
  • roasted chicken a la Mendiratta, chardonnay and cassis, salad, chocolate-prune-coffee cake. #
  • Just to show off, today I’m going to be a pedestrian. #
  • could you write a wholly new play by copying lines from Shakespeare’s complete works? My analogy for synthetic biology: http://is.gd/A4O9 #
  • computationally enabling the elderly is a labor of love. #
  • Walking back to sally’s from fort mason #
  • Certainly after correcting for age, Sally creamed me in our walk today. We maybe tied without the normalization… #
  • Getting a swing lesson with wine #
  • Playing dress up… uh, I mean, dressing up. For a wedding. #
  • had fun dressing up, but boy was it hot. Liked Renny’s aussie fam, especially Annie and Peter. Need to visit London. #
  • whew, hard morning of personal computation… #
  • The smell of subways reminds me of living in st petersburg #
  • Just now getting on the plane. Hope I make the last gold line train. Ha, that rhymes! #
  • Once again stranded by los angeles and its strange ideas about public transportation. #
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  • is going to submit his thesis before heading into The Maze. #
  • Ahh, the first bite of the first peach. Summer in California isn’t all bad. #
  • Dubugging. #
  • Long overdue photo uploads… http://is.gd/wLGu #
  • Oh crystal ball, what paleopole maximizes the amplitude of the apparent NSR induced lineament formation history? #
  • Reply hazy, try again. #
  • turning the moon upside down #
  • jjjkkk?tile(dwi Ha ha, that’s what vi command-mode looks like with the wrong application selected… Is this too nerdy to be funny? #
  • Hmm. My front page makes me look like some kind of burgeoning eco-terrorist, or an intelligence analyst. (or both…) #
  • homeward to scrounge dinner, read about nuclear power, and drink a bit of scotch ale, while the lappy calculates. #
  • Coffee just isn’t what it used to be. #
  • I wish the Red Cross would take my blood. Maybe I should get a new SSN. #
  • Maybe instead of having kids, we should just periodically host exchange students. #
  • I challenge you to an energy duel! http://bit.ly/cZqca #wattzon #
  • How inevitable is the development of synthetic biology, and who will develop it? Do we even get to decide? http://is.gd/xA3g #
  • Now slower and with more bugs! (vegetables, not code) #
  • Tix for O’Reilly #ETech & #SXSW 2010 (and others) on auction to support http://worldchanging.com here: http://is.gd/xQRJ #
  • I forget how much work I’ve done until I go and try to write it up. #
  • I just discovered a wonderful tree to nap and eat lunch under! #
  • Hopefully Miss California won’t have to return her free boob-job for allowing a pre-implant topless photo to surface on the internet. #
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. #
  • From now on I’m only going to read Google news in languages other than English. #
  • Biked up and slept out under the full moon on a fire road in the San Gabes last night. Got checked out by a fox. Hooted at an owl. #
  • In 50 years, what are we going to think cities are for? #
  • Every time I go out I am reminded of why I never go out. #
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  • cooking with things from the garden. #
  • I really wish Worldchanging had per-author RSS feeds. #
  • Okay, here we go. #
  • Damn, I go away for the weekend and a pandemic breaks out. How weird is that? #
  • obsessing about the economics of information. #
  • Just listed myself in the http://localtweeps.com local Twitter directory in ZIP/Postal Code 91107 #
  • I wish this job involved more being outside. Like, as in, any. #
  • Thoughts on Josh Spurgeon’s Everhart Lecture at Caltech on Si microwire PV. I can’t belive he got it to work in one PhD: http://is.gd/vtCk #
  • Hokay, enuf o this. Alaska can come to. #
  • Tell your CA assemblyman/senator to support AB 1186, making the cost of parking more transparent: http://is.gd/vGIL #
  • I have reprints from Icarus of my first paper! How archaic. #
  • a headache is definitely a productivity damper. #
  • Mayday mayday mayday! Chrysler’s now a (55%) worker owned business! Of course, it’s also bankrupt… #
  • I love Netflix, and I am such a sucker for nature documentaries. Must be that PBS childhood. #
  • The more I read, the happier I am I wasn’t born in Afghanistan: http://is.gd/vWmi #
  • My thanks to Richard Rhodes for writing The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and a suggestion that the BBC serialize it: http://is.gd/w1Gq #
  • Good grief. I just broke into tears reading my own letter to Rhodes. #
  • I want to go for a bike ride that isn’t in LA. #
  • had a crappy day. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. #
  • today is definitely better than yesterday. #
  • holy cow I’m white and nerdy. #
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  • I feel so fat. #
  • Should have new phone by end of week. Hopefully at least the SIM card survived its trip through the washing machine. #
  • Not sure I really buy the remote sensing mineral spectra thing. #
  • Ha! The CU NORML forum made it into the NYTimes: http://is.gd/tx8i All those official publicity e-mails must have worked. #
  • In solidarity with Farrand Field. #
  • Vanguard manages about a trillion dollars. Annual compensation for each trustee: $152,500. #
  • No cavities (yay!), but man, that cleaning was carnage. Blood everywhere. #
  • Best fit great circles work! Now I need food. #
  • My god setting up a phone is annoying #
  • running a calculation out of spite? No no no, just in order to be able to say convincingly that it’s wrong. #
  • Grad school is making me feel nauseous. #
  • going to Montaña de Oro state park for the weekend. Back Monday. #
  • Okay, now we’re *really* leaving for MdO… #
  • The highway system only just barely seems to be working. Why are people so into them? #
  • Michelle forgot her sleeping pad. Bummer. #
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  • Today I’m going to write in English, not Python. #
  • My review of Fred Pearce’s modern, globalized Cadillac Desert:,”When the rivers run dry” http://is.gd/seee #
  • Does writing about what code does count as English? It sure doesn’t read like it… time to go home and eat. #
  • trying to get rid of a headache… hydrate, vitamin-I, soothing ambient music… #
  • To anyone who’s edited the Wikipedia: please vote for Creative Commons BY-SA licensing! http://is.gd/shHq #
  • what’s the best way to generate an evenly spaced set of points covering the surface of a sphere? #
  • Why can’t I fall asleep? #
  • Sixteen tons and what do you get? #
  • replenishing my solvent of choice. #
  • coffee, snack, bicycle, and NSR fit curves. #
  • Owner of Glendale Galleria declares bankruptcy. So sad. What ever will Americans do without our iconic malls. #
  • mirror mirror on the wall, what’s the best Europan paleopole of them all… #
  • Hmm. I guess that kind of looks like a result. #
  • here we go again. #
  • I like talking to Aaron about SCIENCE. #
  • Arrr, the pirates be goin’ to jail. Who wants to bet P2P filesharing continues anyway? #
  • is so glad that CU is doing free PR for 4:20 via the campus e-mail list. If anyone didn’t know about it before, they sure do now! #
  • sore from turning the compost again. What a glorious heap. #
  • First night of using fan to cool down the house after sunset, and it’s going to be 10F hotter tomorrow. Ugh. #
  • Well, my cell phone is finally clean. If only it were also waterproof. #
  • Compost went from 76F to 130F overnight! #
  • I’m so glad I wasn’t born in Afghanistan. #
  • Incredibly, in less than 24 hours the compost has gone from 76F to 150F. Hopefully it won’t set anything on fire overnight… #
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  • Sometimes fast and broken is better than slow and functional. Right? #
  • I really do not want to deal with my inbox right now. #
  • SatStress has been vectorized. What used to take overnight now takes 30 seconds. #
  • back to the eigencrap. #
  • looking more and more like Jean-Luc Picard every day. #
  • Having code that needs to run for a few hours does provide a good excuse for going home and eating. #
  • Actually going to make it to the ESE & Society talk this week. 9am is just too early most of the time. #
  • Pasadena Water and Power chose new natural gas fired plant over (transmission+renewables), so it can sell power to other cities at a profit. #
  • Our server, and much of bay area, cut off by 2 pieces of network sabotage in San Jose. Disgruntled union workers? http://is.gd/rF2d #
  • Or maybe just a a convenient distraction while a packet sniffing black box is installed on the temporarily dark fiber. #
  • Whew, interwebs again connected in our neck o the woods. #
  • is going home to look at the garden before it gets completely dark. #
  • candied kumquats. #
  • leftover kumquat syrup turned into kumquat jelly overnight… time for toast. #
  • why bother making a cartoon figure when creating a real model is the same amount of work? #
  • FoxNews: speaking crazy to power. #
  • checked my source code in for the weekend. #
  • I wish we could just hang out with the Theologians more often. #
  • 2 Brandywines, 1 Momotaro, and a Sweet 100., all before breakfast. Next: Jamaican hot cross buns for Ishtar. #
  • Underslept. Just want a naptime… #
  • Now it’s really nap time. Not sure if marmalade is going to gel. Feel free to return for full refund if not. #
  • The day is so beautiful, and I feel so lazy. Feel like I should be outside, but it’s all cars, concrete and asphalt. #
  • I think the days of flood irrigated agriculture are numbered. #
  • going to watch some more BBC science documentaries… #
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  • Compost reactor core temperature has peaked. Now 325 K and falling. #
  • Wish I knew the young up-and-coming Richard Burke, Bill Moyers, Will Durant, Carl Sagan, and Joseph Campbell. #
  • hopefully I won’t have a headache in the morning, after 5 glasses of homebrew. I blame Susan. #
  • Compost reactor core temperature 325 K and holding. #
  • borderline catatonic. But at least I’m not at Disneyland. #
  • music of the spheres my ass. I hate spheres. #
  • The average distance to the nearest person having sex in Pasadena is roughly 200 meters: http://xkcd.com/563/ #
  • vectorizing myself to bed. #
  • Compost reactor core temperature 324 K and holding #
  • We’re as good at being capitalist as the USSR was at being communist. Who said we couldn’t both lose the Cold War? #
  • why does it feel so good to delete everything from my inbox? #
  • kebabs for dinner, and then some live music. #
  • Caltech campus, you’re so pretty. In a stage makeup and plastic surgery kind of way. #
  • Compost reactor core temperature 322 K and falling. Going to move the therm-o-meter to a new hotspot. It’s entertainment, not science. #
  • How is it exactly that the truth ends up setting you free again? #
  • Ordered some purslane seeds on Pliny the Elder’s recommendation (despite its supposed antaphrodisiac properties) http://is.gd/qoOy #
  • I must have learned something. Code is half as long, 10,000 times as fast. Who doesn’t love vectors? #
  • wondering who turned down the volume on the internet. #
  • Just watched a black guy doing taiko drumming for a bharatanatyam dance performance in California. Small world we have here. #
  • has a short week to recuperate from guests. #
  • bummed that Mike the tomato guy didn’t make it to the farmer’s market today for some reason. WTF? #
  • still dealing with the Newtonian hangover. #
  • planted cucumbers and Chinese long beans today. #