Express Car Delivery

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It’s like driving a beach-ball that fights back. So says Marisa on driving a (2003) Prius.  Apparently the 2010 ones are “better” insofar as they’ve had the will to fight back beaten out of them.

Secret Improv Society

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On Saturday night Marisa & I went to dinner with her parents at Cafe Bistro (at the top of Nordstroms on Market Street, in San Francisco). Afterwards we went to the Shelton Theatre to see “Secret Improv Society”. It was rather entertaining. I’d definitely like to go back, hopefully with Game Night, as it’s right… Read more

Lady Antebellum & Darius Rucker in concert

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Last night Marisa and I went to a performance by Lady Antebellum, with Thompson Square and Darius Rucker opening.  At the HP Pavillion. I had forgotten how awful the acoustics are there.  Massive reverb, and a closed roof contributing to the cheap-speakers-way-over-driven effect.  Which was very unfortunate.  But nonetheless the show was entertaining.  It just… Read more

Further iPad 3 notes

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Battery life is indeed something of an issue. I can no longer just juice it for an hour or two a day, like with my iPad 2 – instead, it really needs all night to charge. And the battery life is at best the same as the iPad 2. So it doesn’t feel as untethered… Read more

Best viewed on an iPad 3

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I really like the text rendering on my iPad 3.  Yes, it’s ostensibly much the same as the iPhone 4 I’ve had for a while.  But it’s not.  The relatively huge screen makes a world of difference. So I’ve changed the font of this ‘ere website to something that looks nicer on the iPad 3.  It… Read more

Stanford’s Game Theory online course

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In the interests of SCIENCE! I signed up for the Machine Learning course that Stanford was planning to offer online.  That apparently fell through, so I jumped ship to Game Theory instead.  Which started as of a weekish ago.  It’s an interesting idea, and I suspect that the existence of tests and problem sets will… Read more