Sometimes I feel like a Pokemon trainer of academia. It’s as though I’m trying to catch ‘em all. I’ve got (or am working on) MIT, Stanford, IBM, Google, LLNL, Sandia, IEEE publications, ACM publications, book chapter, fellowships, two BSs, an MEng, and a PhD. I just need Dorkizard and I can take on Team Nerd in the tournament. My next conference trip is IPDPS in Rhodes Island, Greece. It looks like I’ll be making a stopover in England on the way home to visit Yong-Hwa at Oxford. She is truly a Pokemon Master.
This past weekend included Peter’s Australia Day party, during which time I ate copious amounts of guacamole, smoked salmon, and fairy bread. I know what you’re thinking: “Adam, you promised to fix your photo galleries and still haven’t done it. What gives?” Right after that, you’re thinking, “What the deuce is fairy bread?” It’s a popular dish in Australia, you uncultured buffoon. Now, bring me my brandy and sprinkles.
Before that, I spent a weekend at Sierra near Lake Tahoe, learning to snowboard. From what I now know of snowboarding, and from what Colin has told me about abusive homosexual relationships, I would say that snowboarding is a bit like an abusive homosexual relationship. You take a severe beating, convince yourself that its worth it and that you are happy, and at the end of the day your ass is killing you. There will be nonpornographic photos of the snowboarding and gorgeous Tahoe scenery posted as soon as I keep my word and fix the galleries. I hope this little metaphor didn’t offend anyone. Except Colin, obviously. I think it’s safe to say his panties will be considerably bunched.
I’ll leave you with today’s political gem. As you are aware, Hamas recently won in landslide Palestinian elections. These well-known supporters of terrorism were elected democratically, so you’d think the Bush administration would be thrilled. After all, bringing democracy to the Middle East was the reason for invading Iraq, right? Well, no, it was WMDs. Remember when Saddam was an imminent threat? Neither does the administration. Suddenly, they went from “we must fight for peace” to “fighting for peace makes no sense”:
“You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.” – Condoleezza Rice, January 30th, 2006.
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” – George W. Bush, June 18, 2002.
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January 31st, 2006 at 7:44 pm
By the way, I totally invented that fairy bread stuff. When I was like 7, I created a little recipe book, (that was absolutely *ridiculous* by the way, and required no cooking/preparation skills whatsoever), and bread spread with margarine and coated with sprinkles was one of the recipes. Except that I made a smiley face on mine with the sprinkles. I can’t remember what I named it.
It certainly wasn’t fairy bread, however, it does seem an appropriate name.
February 8th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
This administration makes me sick. I didn’t even bother watching the SotU because I knew it would be the same old shit.
Speaking of abusive homosexual relationships, I hope you’re enjoying Stanford.
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February 15th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Colin, you’re a fairy.