The virtue of packing light

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Of course, the problem I’m facing now is, how to get all this new crap back to Australia. My luggage was close to the weight limit coming over, and now I have more clothes. Let alone all the other cruft I’ve accumulated. Extra bags for the plane start at $80US each, which I guess isn’t… Read more

The weight of the world

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So, I’ve just totalled my weights for the first 10 weights sessions, and it seems my total comes in at about 48,330 pounds (that’s 21,922 in real units). Or, nearly five African elephants, or roughly 192,000 bananas, or 8,630 MacBook Pro’s. Shiny. I’m practically Superman already. ;) Of course, that’s just 3.65 x 10-21th of… Read more

Stuff

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So, news. The weekend was pretty slow. Aside from the foam fountain, I didn’t do a whole lot during the days. We went out for lunch on Sunday. That was about it. Sunday night a friend, Francisco, flew up from L.A. He was interviewing at Apple on Monday. So the four of us went out… Read more

Foam Fountain

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Apparently someone had some fun with some detergent (or somesuch) and the big fountain near our place. The results… shiny. :D

SIGGRAPH presentation

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The three of us just got back from campus, where we viewed a SIGGRAPH presentation. Basically, a whole bunch of cool computer animated movies. There was the usual stuff in there – the generic “behind the scenes” crap from Industrial Light & Magic, DigitalDomain, etc. But the good things were the independent stuff, the small… Read more

Santa Cruz

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Okay, so a week ago Simon Goldrei invited the three of us down to Santa Cruz for the day, to check it out. He moved here (permanently) about a month or so before I arrived, and has a nice shiny car (in the photos). Thus, given Santa Cruz is some 50km or so away from… Read more