Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Vegan Cookery Episode One: Treats
Seizing an opportunity to cook for others, I spent my whole morning one Friday cooking treats to bring to my coworkers. You see, all of my coworkers take turns bringing snacks for an end-of-the-week meeting. Traditionally, it has always been cake and wine. When I joined the team, I started bringing miscellaneous treats; sometimes cake, […]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Youtube Dot Com Theme Song
I wasn’t planning on writing another Internet Video post today, but when something of this caliber comes along there isn’t really a lot of choice involved. This video is a recording of a song by Irving Fields. Fields has been writing songs for over eighty years and he has been pretty successful. Some of his songs have […]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Glass Harmonica Symphony
I just found this video today and it blew my mind. I think this would be tricky to play on a regular instrument, but on glasses?! That’s incredible. The glass harmonica is really amazing. All of the glasses are either of differenet sizes or filled with different amounts of water, thus producing different tones. The sound is […]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Physics is Phun
There is a new potential time sink in my life! I recently found a computer program called Phun. Phun Beta 3.0 is a “a fun 2D physics playground” designed by Computing Science student Emil Ernefeldt. The program is avaliable here. Once you try it, I think you’ll find that it is ridiculously addicting.
Within the program, real world […]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Now, Everybody Love!!!
It’s been a long time since I first saw this video but I still love it. Playing drums on a keyboard!?!?!?! Ludicrous! Preposterous!
This was humorously inspiring to me. First off, this guy’s voice is awesome and strangely calming. I don’t know why. Secondly, the act of playing a “rock and roll rhythm” on a keyboard […]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Dharma Punx Review: Update
If you previously read my Dharma Punx reveiw, please give it another read. I’ve reworked it a little to reflect my sentiment a bit better. Thanks.
-Mikkei
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
xkcd
Just like “Jake and Amir“, XKCD is rad. Similarly, this is sure to be the first of many posts regarding this site.
XKCD is a webcomic written by CNU physics graduate Randall Munroe. It’s alternately hilarious, thought provoking, and sorrowful and constantly intelligent. I can honestly say that it is consistently amazing. Here is one that […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Dharma Punx
Today I finished reading Noah Levine’s Dharma Punx. This autobiography is a truly inspiring tale. Finishing this book marked nearly a year of growing interest in spiritual matters. I have been pondering concepts that I’ve never thought about before and also remembering some ideas that I had forgotten. More […]
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Jake and Amir
This is the the first of what is sure to be a long series of posts about Jake and Amir. Jake and Amir, are (somewhat) fictional characters who star in a series of internet video skits on both JakeAndAmir.com and CollegeHumor.
Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, both of whom actually work at CollegeHumor in New York, have had their […]
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
iMovie made a fool of me
iMovie has made a fool of me.
A couple of months ago, my girlfriend’s nearly brand new MacBook was close to running out of hard drive space. The reason being that we both feel compelled to attempt to capture every aspect of our lives on either photo or video. Tons of video and hi-res photos require […]