A Series of Tubes

I am never driving up to San Francisco again.  This is the second time that someone broke my window, looked through the inside of my car, found out that I don’t keep anything valuable in my car, and left me with a broken window and the contents of my glove compartment spread out on the passenger seat.

I can’t believe that I haven’t posted this yet:

A while back I saw this video and started to tie my shoes this way:

I decided to look up a better way to tie my shoes recently because my shoes would get really tight at the bottom and way too lose at the top.  I would keep adjusting my shoes but it was a never ending battle.  Eventually I found this website that has collected a ton of shoelace information in one site.  I would say that I’m surprised to see how much time someone spent putting up all this shoelace information, but when you consider how many pictures there are of things like kung fu cats you realize that the shoelace site is par for the course on the internet.

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I’ve been listening to some lectures from The Teaching Company.  Some of them are really good and some of them are ok.  I really liked the philosophy of freedom lectures.  Currently I’m listening to ethics and public policy, but the lecturer simply poses a bunch of hypothetical questions and I think has discussion sessions inbetween lectures.  As a teaching sytle that is fine except I’m listening to the lectures on my bus rides to and from campus.

The engineering honor society at UCSC recently became a part of Tau Beta Pi.  I recently joined and went through the initiation ceremony.  It was a little weird and the whole time I was there I kept thinking of the episode of the simpsons where he joins the stonecutters: