1000 miles in a MINI Cooper on a spare tire at 80 miles an hour.
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1000 miles on a MINI spare tire.
Posted in Cars, Experiences, Interests, Uncategorized, tagged mini cooper, Road Trip, Spare Tire on October 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Selfish Gene Notes – I
Posted in Biology, Interests, Learning, The Selfish Gene, science, tagged Biology, Evolution, richard dawkins, Selfish Gene on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s been over 2 years since I first read “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins, and in the meantime I have forgotten quite a bit of it. The basic idea of evolution is simple, but once you start studying it, lots and lots of details emerge, and these are quite complicated. No other book has [...]
Great Moments in Concerts – Part I
Posted in Interests, Music, Uncategorized, tagged andrea corr, Concerts, Corrs, Great moments, Green Day, U2 on October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, what I really mean is the best moments in concerts that I own on DVD, but that’s not going to be very high up in the search hits, is it? I’ve always thought the live performances are a lot better than the studio versions. One of the reasons is probably because the live version [...]
Fractal Mountains
Posted in Cool stuff, Graphics, Interests, Math, Uncategorized, tagged computer graphics, fractal mountains on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fractals are geometric figures that are recursive. For the fractal mountains, we start with a single triangle. We then pick the mid-points of the 3 sides of these triangles, join them, and create 4 more triangles. Then we do the same for each of the 4 triangles. This recursion is the fractal part of the [...]
The iLike Picture
Posted in Cool stuff, Graphics, Interests, Uncategorized, tagged andrea corr, collage, ilike, mini cooper, richard dawkins on September 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Recently I happened to be working on my iMac browsing the web for some information about the MINI, and listening to The Corrs in the background and that made me think…how could I have everything I like in one place? And that gave me the idea of the iLike picture (Yes…I am a Mac addict), [...]
