Jeff’s Blog

I found this little conversation interesting. Note the use of the word ‘imperialists’.

On Friday, Bev organized a barbeque at our place. A bunch of people from his department as well as a few from mine showed up. I think Kara and Michael were the only people from Comp Lit, but it was none the less an ecclectic crowd, which means that we all separated into [...]

I went to the optometrist today. It was late in the day and there really weren’t any other patients around, which made things pretty chill. The doctor was nice and curiously we have the same birthday (not year, but still). Anyhow, after three years my prescription has changed a bit, although it [...]

After getting my bike back this morning, I decided I should go for a ride. 20 feet down the road, I stop to adjust my seat (since the guy moved it when he replaced the tube) and hear a loud hissing. Fucking thing is leaking again! I go back home, annoyed and [...]

After getting back from signing up for swimming lessons, I decided I’d go for a bike ride and get my daily exercise. A ways into the ride, I decided I should probably do a longer ride today since it was Sunday and I had some extra time. I was going to ride through [...]

After talking to the woman at the Y the other day about how people line up early to sign up for swimming lessons, I drove over there this morning around 10am or so. There were lots of cars in the parking lot, but there wasn’t any line at the entrance. After sitting in [...]

I called the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA today to ask about swimming lessons. Apparently, they open at 1pm on Sunday, but people start lining up as early as 10am. The classes I’m looking at (the ones for adults) are all very small. One has 3 of the 5 spots filled already, while another [...]

Not a whole lot has been going on the past couple of days. I’m finally getting back into the swing of work after taking a much needed break most of the end of last week. Poring through papers and doing a lot of thinking about how I’m going to approach the newest problem [...]

I always like to stroll through my refer logs to see how people find this site. Claire’s blog is now the clear leader, taking up approx. 27 of the 102 valid refers I’ve gotten so far this month. Trailing behind at 16 is blo.gs which is a site Wordpress pings automatically went I [...]

Looks like I’m gonna be on the radio Thursday mornings from 9 to noon EDT for the rest of the summer, or at least until I take off for Jason’s Wedding / SIGGRAPH in late July.