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Thu, 16 May 2013 06:44:00 -0400

I have had no time during this trip to post photos and stuff! Tomorrow is a quiet day, though, with...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:18:17 -0400

I have had no time during this trip to post photos and stuff! Tomorrow is a quiet day, though, with nothing planned… maybe then :-)

p.s. Italian McDonald’ses are really really nice compared to the US ones… and the coffee they sell beats all typical American coffee like Starbucks’!

Yesterday we went into Vicenza for the day (my friend’s...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:18:00 -0400

Yesterday we went into Vicenza for the day (my friend’s house is just outside the heart of the city).

(will write up descriptions of photos later… I should really get to sleep)

I just started a little trip to Italy a couple of days ago! I...

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:53:38 -0400

I just started a little trip to Italy a couple of days ago! I wrote up a big thing about my first day to my mother yesterday and rather than spend time I should be sleeping to prepare for walking around Venice tomorrow, I’m just going to copy that for you all :P

Mom,

(removed some stuff here about how I tried to call my parents but they didn’t pick up)

Yesterday I mostly just got settled here and relaxed some. We had pizza for dinner and then walked into the center of Vicenza for gelato. Many of the stores were closed (after 10pm or so), but at the central square we did find places open. It was delicious! The pizza is similar to how it is in the States. Marcus says that the crust is always thin and crispy, never fluffy like many kinds in the US.

We went to Marostica and Bassano del Grappa today:

I attached a couple of photos. The first shows the walled city of Marostica from the ruins of the fortress on the adjacent hill. Marostica has a massive human-scale chess board paved into its central square and every few years, a sort of reenactment of a historic political chess game is played out with people and horses as the chess pieces. The second shows the bridge into Bassano del Grappa, a town known for its bridge and for being a center of grappa (thus “del Grappa”) production (liquor from the leftover pieces of the grape plant after wine production). The Poli grappa brand is about a hundred years old so it doesn’t have the history of other distilleries, but they sell well (we can probably even get it in the States). Poli has a museum in Bassano, but the distillery building itself is actually closer to Vicenza (we passed it on the drive back). Marostica, the first town, is known for its chess board and for being a walled city, but also for its cherries and cherry grappa.

We went to an Italian grocery store for ingredients for dinner. It costs 1euro to take a shopping cart, but you get it back when you return the cart, and the carts lock together. The rear wheels on the carts here spin on casters like the front wheels, so it’s easier to maneuver them inside the store. Aisles are smaller, so I guess that’s why! They don’t automatically bag your groceries; it seems to be customary to bring your own bags or just have everything loose in the car. We prepared salads and zucchini, and got fried calamari as the main dish from a seafood place nearby. I got some kinds of beer here which I never see in the US. I had a Gösser (Austrian) radler… 60% lemonade, 40% beer. Marcus says it’s popular in Germany/Austria during the summer time, and not at all seen as a “girly drink” like it might be in the US. It tasted a lot like Mike’s Hard Lemonade

Tomorrow we will go to a villa near Vicenza and then go into Vicenza during the day when shops are open. On Sunday we are going into Venice; we have tickets to some museums already reserved, and then we’ll figure out what to do from there. We go to Rome on the 17th, if I remember correctly. A friend from Penn is in Rome at the time, so we may get to meet up there. We’ll stay there for 3 or four days, then in Florence for a couple of days. I think we are going to drive up to Innsbruck, Austria too, at some point. The city where the Pope Benedict’s family lived (and where he was taken as a POW) during WWII isn’t too much farther up into Germany, so me may go there to see that too!

noodletothedoodle: lackingroyalty: theprismilivein: ow, my...

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:58:01 -0400

noodletothedoodle:

lackingroyalty:

theprismilivein:

ow, my heart.

Love.

awww

vegkid: This made me forget all of my problems for like 12...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:51:15 -0400

vegkid:

This made me forget all of my problems for like 12 seconds.

omg

liver-and-chianti: I made something. It’s not good. I think...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:48:21 -0400

liver-and-chianti:

I made something. It’s not good.

I think this makes me a noromo. I am glad there is a word for it. Adding to tablet spellcheck dictionary… :3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/The_Drunkard&#...

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:07:49 -0400

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/The_Drunkard’s_Progress_1846.jpg

The View From Space

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:53:39 -0400

fakescience:

when FakeScience does real science

i dont even

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:39:21 -0400

i dont even

I was wondering why it said that at the top of these Bing search...

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:06:18 -0400

I was wondering why it said that at the top of these Bing search results, so I checked Google too… :P

[11:12:16] Herabek: http://i.imgur.com/6ymo84R.png what the fuck...

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:14:00 -0400

[11:12:16] Herabek: http://i.imgur.com/6ymo84R.png what the fuck am I doing foxox help
[11:12:33] Foxox: you’re tumblring
[11:12:38] Foxox: A++
[11:12:38] Herabek: halp
[11:12:42] Herabek: haaaaaaaaaalp

cbnh239: Those days where you just want to dance around like an...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:26:55 -0400

cbnh239:

Those days where you just want to dance around like an idiot

I took a long bus ride from Pittsburgh to Philly today, then got a train ride to my neighborhood. On...

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:38:19 -0400

I took a long bus ride from Pittsburgh to Philly today, then got a train ride to my neighborhood. On the train, a lady wearing a riding helmet walked up to my seat row and said she had to sit there to “plug in”. It was the only row where she could “plug in” (there are no power outlets so I have no idea what she meant). She said she could share the seat with me, so I was like “no it’s okay I’ll move up a row” and I did. Then she said “this is how they restrict us,” or something like that, as if there were some government conspiracy to only provide one “plug” (………..?) row in each train.

Then she screamed about the Kentucky Derby for a few minutes and gave me a flyer about a cancer research study.

What happened to you today? :3

stay strong and dont give into PEER PRESSURE

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:09:00 -0400

stay strong and dont give into PEER PRESSURE

1KB real-time JS ray-casting

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:42:00 -0400

1KB real-time JS ray-casting:

I made this in 2010 for http://js1k.com/

It is a simple ray-casting implementation which operates only on spheres. Two spheres move on sine curves to demonstrate that the rendering operation happens in real-time. The display automatically cycles between simple diffuse shading, normal directions, and depth. I set the resolution at what it is so that it could run reasonably fast on lower-end machines, and on my machine it gets over 100fps.

When you open the page, press ctrl-u on your browser to take a look at the source code. I wrote a simple compression scheme based on replacing common n-grams in the expanded source with unique single characters, then re-inflating the code at run-time and running the inflated code through a call to eval(). It makes duplicated n-gram replacements until the size of the decompression key/mapping structure grows more than the possible savings. I also made sure to shorten my identifier names to one or two characters in the input code for a few bytes of saved space. The total size is 1021 bytes, just short of the 1k limit!

This always makes me laugh hahahaha

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:07:19 -0400

This always makes me laugh hahahaha

Equestria Girls

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:07:00 -0400

Equestria Girls:

/fandom

broken-pen: The many marvelous faces of Cheerilee, Part...

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:47:24 -0400

broken-pen:

The many marvelous faces of Cheerilee, Part 1.

That second one is my favorite!!! XD

I WANT THIS

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:33:47 -0400

I WANT THIS