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Tue 27 Nov 2007

Grad school diaries, day 2557

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Waxing philosophical whilst preparing for another NASA teleconference.

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Sun 25 Nov 2007

Karaoke War Crimes - NaVloPoMo 25

Posted by shelbinator under Cool things, Culture, NaVloPoMo, Video
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A prototype of a self-contained karaoke microphone was available for our beta-testing at a dinner party last night. Though it needs a little polishing in the software, the concept and the product — a mic you plug right into the TV set like one of those Atari-style joysticks — is awesome. Our singing, not so much. But isn’t that the point of karaoke?

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Sat 24 Nov 2007

Surviving Black Friday

Posted by shelbinator under Culture, NaVloPoMo, Video
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NaVloPoMo day 24. My girlfriend and I hit an outlet mall on Black Friday to make me look less slovenly and fashion-retarded. Thanks to increasingly obese Americans and the apparel-makers apparently coddling their egos by downsizing their garments, I am now a Small, after a lifetime as a Medium. Maybe it’s time to call an XXL an XXL so we know when it’s time to quit super-sizin’ lunch and dinner.

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Thu 22 Nov 2007

Happy Thanksgiving NaVloPoMo

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From Myrtle Beach. ‘Nuff said.

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Tue 20 Nov 2007

A day in the metallography lab

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For NaVloPoMo day 20. This is one of the mundane tasks required before completing a PhD: cutting off lots of little slices of metal that you can then stick into an electron microscope, so you can then scratch your head at the screen and say “Well you can clearly see the micromechanisms of shear transition to what the hell am I looking at?” And then when you make everyone call you Doctor and they think you’re being pretentious and it takes every fiber of your being not to stab them to death with your salad fork, it all makes sense. Music (originally by Brad Sucks) remixed by DeathBoy, CC:By3.0.

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Tags: navlopomo, navlopomo07, engineering, research

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Tue 20 Nov 2007

Worst marketing job ever

Posted by shelbinator under Culture, Juvenile, NaVloPoMo, Politics, Video
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At 10am CST, Sen. Joe Biden will be delivering an address on energy and climate security in Johnston, IA. Appropriately enough for an energy policy speech, he’ll be giving it at a gas station.

Inappropriately enough for anyone with an inner 12-year-old and the associated sense of humor, what appears to be quite the popular gas station & quick-mart chain in Iowa is Kum & Go. Quite the popular, dirty, anonymous, no-strings gas station.

I’m sorry, there’s just no way I can take that seriously. Larry Craig jokes aside, it’s not the kind of non-committal, kame & went kind of message I’d want to deliver in selecting a venue were I a second tier candidate poised to strike at the “inevitable” leader in the caucuses.

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Mon 19 Nov 2007

NaVloPoMo 18 - Politickin’

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We’re calling the 17th a write-off and launching into the 18th, even though I think it’s the 19th in the video. I was supposed to appear on a political BlogTalkRadio show, the Kudzu Vine, to talk about Joe Biden tonight, but they screwed up their show and I wasted 25 minutes sitting around on hold.

Have you noticed how I haven’t even come close to dealing with the YouTube issues I intended to vlog about in the first place?

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Fri 16 Nov 2007

NaVloPoMo 16 - Where the hell ARE you?

Posted by shelbinator under NaVloPoMo, Random, Video
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Yeah yeah yeah, I don’t care about rules, so I’m back-dating this entry two days late and calling it number 16. It was shot on the 16th, I just haven’t had time to edit and upload till now. No one’s watching these, anyways, and it’s all just for practice, so here: for an annoying 16th day entry, an epic of clusterfrack proportions as we try to give directions to two very lost new grad students.