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Grad school diaries, day 2557

shelbinator — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:15:41 +0000

Waxing philosophical whilst preparing for another NASA teleconference.

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Karaoke War Crimes - NaVloPoMo 25

shelbinator — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:36:52 +0000

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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Surviving Black Friday

shelbinator — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:06:01 +0000

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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Happy Thanksgiving NaVloPoMo

shelbinator — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:17:50 +0000

From Myrtle Beach. ‘Nuff said.

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A day in the metallography lab

shelbinator — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:55:26 +0000

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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Worst marketing job ever

shelbinator — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:16:41 +0000

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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NaVloPoMo 18 - Politickin’

shelbinator — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:25:27 +0000

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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NaVloPoMo 16 - Where the hell ARE you?

shelbinator — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:59:22 +0000

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.

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I hope Beck’s record label doesn’t come after me, aw shucks.

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NaVloPoMo #15 - Change in the weather

shelbinator — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:25:06 +0000

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NaVloPoMo #14: Leftover uninspiration

shelbinator — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:14:35 +0000

Ugh. Even skipping a day didn’t help. Leftover uninspiration, stored in tupperware:

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