As many of you know, I run a songwriting project called FAWM.ORG where the goal is to write 14 original songs in the 28 days of February. Last year some cats in New Hampshire started something similar called RPM, to record a 10-song album in the same amount of time. This year, they decided to […]
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This morning, I really felt like I needed some exercise… so I decided to hop on my bike and ride around the Cambridge area randomly. I was out for about an hour (and at times things looked so rural and unfamiliar I could have sworn I was halfway to Oxford), and when I got back […]
We’ve been here a month now, and have had to get groceries nearly every day. This is partially because product volumes are generally smaller here, but mostly because our carrying capacity is also pretty small (two arms each by foot, or a backpack and basket on bike). We go through what we can carry pretty […]
Yesterday, we made pancakes. Crêpes, actually. I ate four: two with nutella, one with butter & sugar, and one with syrup. Natalie made a video (but angled the camera the wrong way so I had to rotate and letterbox it):
I was very tired, thus my wit of glacial speed.
Modern Technology and “Foot-ball.”
Published by on Mon 05-Feb-07 @ 5:57PM in Daily Life and Sports. 1 CommentHere are some screenshots from video chats we had with our parents last Saturday. Left: talking via Skype with Nicki (Natalie’s mom), using the refurbished PC laptop and new webcam we gave her for Christmas. Right: my chat with my parents over iChat on their new MacBook.
It’s funny to think that we can talk “face […]
It turns out that Ryan Woodard, one of the songwriters who participated last year in FAWM (the songwriting challenge I organize) lives here in Cambridge. Not only that, he and his wife have two spare bicycles, and said we are welcome to use them. We walked 3 miles to the other side of town this […]
I keep forgetting to look to the right when crossing the road here because they drive on the other side. The walk to the Cambridge Computing Lab is just a mile or so but you must cross Madingley Road, which is quite a busy one. I nearly got smooshed this morning!
Last night I went to go see celebrity physicist Stephen Hawking give a lecture entitled “To Boldly Go: My Life in Physics” with Natalie and my advisor, Mark. There were a lot of American accents in the room… in fact, all the questions at the end of the talk sounded like they were from Americans. […]
For any of you who heard about the massive European storm today, we’re not among the 11 dead (and counting). The winds were somewhat frightening at points, though, and apparently all buses and trains from Cambridge to London were canceled. Our friend Jurgen who is visiting (a Belgian doing a Master’s at UW-Madison, but applying […]
At 11am on 8-Jan-07, our good friend Eric Everman drove us to the Minneapolis/St Paul Airport. About 8 hours later we were boarding a plane in Houston bound for London. We sat next to a young girl (may 8 or 9?) who we think had a British father and American mother (across the aisle from […]