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From slave_to_reason:
White light LEDs as economically reasonable tools of environmental conservation.
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Ohio votes challenged in congress, hopefully this will lead a trend of democrats not rolling over and playing dead.

As part of my ongoing quest to take a decent/recent/sexay picture of myself, I decided to engage in a few experiments. First was to play with different lighting sources. It worked well when I took his photos (all his pics in that profile were taken by me, though he didn’t use any of my favorites (more clothed) from that photo shoot). I also decided to play with a jawline beard again like the ones knight_errant and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine pull off so well. And finally, I decided to try to spike my hair a bit with pomade (not answering my cell phone, using hair product, next thing you know, I’ll be wearing gap clothes and enrolling in a PhD EECS program 😉 So, I put on my second tightest shirt and went for it.

pre-commentary

Well, as if in answer to my donation conundrum, I got an email from one of my many email lists. It seems democracy for america is taking up the cause of donations for tsunami victims as well. DFA I trust (there’s a scary irrational statement to make, but also true). I realize they’re not doing the work directly themselves, but I trust them to channel it well. Plus I’m already on their thrice bedamned mailing list, so I can do it without getting on more.

The Edge asked a bunch of brainaics “What do you believe is true, even though you cannot prove it?”. I recognized a few names from their list, in particular, Howard Gardner, Jared Diamond and Daniel Goleman. Moderately interesting stuff, but not all that.

I want to make a donation to some charity providing relief efforts for the tsunami, but there’s the homophobia factor for various orgs. And, the one recommendation I saw that specifically mentioned a non-anti-homo service provider recommended MSF, which naturally got me thinking of ‘s opinion of the organization. Indecision paralysis, what a lovely sensation. So, who would you recommend as a service provider worthy of my hard earned cash?

The transportation and land use class conflicts with the energy and environmental policy class. Of course these two classes are totally unrelated and there’s no reason why anyone would want to take both of them [if you think only in terms of degree programs and prerequisites]. Grrrrr. Now for the dance of course readjustment. Maybe I’ll actually take one of my prereqs. Hah.

this will make no sense if you don’t know the game fairly well