stephen

The only reason I'm updating at the moment is because I was just reading through some old posts (i.e. four posts and almost thirteen months back) and now found out that I am the number one authority on "how to identify iron." Turns out I know something after all.

If you care about my life, I'm in Boston now. But if you cared about my life, you'd already know that.

This blog is the first result when I put my name into Google (with quotes). If anyone is trying to Google-stalk me, I need to put forth a good impression of myself. That may be beyond hope, but I'll try.

Other impressions they might get come from the next results about me:

2. My ultimate frisbee player profile (height, weight, and position stats! cool!).
3. Some computer-generated math picture I made freshman year for Math 21a (someone please take this down).
5. That time I auctioned myself off as a date last year.
8. A math scholarship competition I won like $10 in. Literally.
11. Sixth grade math stuff.
13-14. I helped out on the Mozilla project for a while.
17. More math. I swear I don't like math that much.
18. Awesome account of the greatest intramural softball game ever played in Leverett history.
19. Harvard UPA roster.
20. Wikipedia article on the Silver Knight Award. Yeah it does need cleanup.

But you already knew all this, you stalker you. To further keep tabs on me, I'm going to Miami on Tuesday, where I will relax and not post on my blog.

Loyal (?) reader(s) have noticed it's been a long time. Very astute. I'll get on that right away.

It's really kind of pathetic to have a blog on which you go over a month between postings. I mean, there's a part of me that knows I shouldn't have a blog at all, but if I'm going to then I might as well at least write something once in a while. So here's once, and it's been a while.

Obviously things have been busy, but they always are. LSAT completed on Saturday to mixed (mostly negative) reviews. Make up final next week. Start up. Recruiting. And - yes - class.

Fortunately, good, pretty engaging classes. Good professors, good material. Unfortunately, each one has weekly, if not daily, reading. Once papers hit I may be singing a different tune. Classic rock, maybe.

Thus concludes a post designed almost solely to move the first date off of August. Happy new year.

Call it morbid, call it me being hungry. Whatever. Your last meal - what would it be? Assume you can have whatever you want and in whatever quantity (as long as you can realistically eat it). I can identify three principal schools of thought.

1. Eat as much as you possibly can. Order eight meals, whatever. But you better get as much food as you can because you're not getting any more for... eternity.
2. Have one meal, the most delicious you can imagine. Presumably you've been on death row for quite a while, so you probably want some good cooking.
3. Who cares what you eat? You've been eating terribly for years, and you're going to die in a few hours.

So option 3 - as true as it might be in real life - is probably the most unlikely to find among people debating it hypothetically, since we're used to eating at least one decent meal a day. So people are divided into option 1 or option 2.

Myself, I'm more of an option 2 guy, though I may be ordering a couple different things. I really do like savoring my food, though I do typically like a lot of it. And as for the type of food, it would be a toss-up between home cooking or restaurant food. But as for the latter, it wouldn't be a $100 steak or something. It would probably be more like some good Cuban food or some barbecue ribs. But definitely with french fries.

In other news, Google declares me the number five authority on "how to identify iron."

I don't know about you, but I kind of miss those messages that were at the top of every website a few years ago. "Best viewed in Internet Explorer 4.0 or above." "For best results, this page should be viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.0+." Those were the days. The browser wars. It just sounds cool. War. Between browsers. Yeah.

This has nothing to do with me being a Firefox user - though I do use it, and if you're not by now, there's something wrong with you. The bottom line: this site looks shitty in Internet Explorer. I can't get it to look right. Either the columns are all off or half the page doesn't load. You may be noticing that right now.

And this is after I spent a good deal of time making my code comply to the standards that exist. In other words, Internet Explorer sucks, and if you're not using Firefox, get it. Or at least get IE7, which should be able to display a correctly-coded webpage properly.

Surprise! Anyone who's ever been to Tokyo Disney (or Disney World, Disneyland, or Disneyland Paris) might have been convinced that it's a "small, small world." It's not. The world is actually a large place - roughly 196 million square miles.

Several asides as a result of research for the last paragraph:

• I like how when a disney.com site is loading, it says "Please wait while the magic is being prepared."
• There is a land at Tokyo Disney called "Critter Country" between Frontierland (called "Westernland" there) and Fantasyland. That's where Splash Mountain is located in Tokyo. I was shocked to find that there is also a Critter Country in Disneyland, being a life-long Disney World loyalist
  
• Also, there is no Liberty Square. Shocking.
• I really like Splash Mountain, and I think it's underrated. All that anyone ever talks about is the big drop at the end. I don't really like that drop, partially because I don't like to get really wet when I'm fully clothed. But inside the mountain is amazing. Probably the best ride at Disney. The story of Br'er Rabbit is beautifully presented, and it's especially great for someone who's read the stories (and who hasn't?).
• And don't even get me started on the layout of Disneyland Paris.
  
• Yes, I do research these posts.

But the bottom line is that there's a lot of places to go in this massive world, and not a lot of time or resources to do it. Even with an unlimited amount of money, I think I would be hard pressed to see everything I wanted to before I die. So I guess it's time to start prioritizing.