7.23.2004
New horizons
Okay, New Horizons is actually just the name of a really irritating New-agey NPR show that used to be on KUT at exactly the wrong moment so I actually sometimes listened to it as I drove out to Buda for Sunday night dinner every week, back in the olden days that is.
Buda is also where my Buddy Ben's in-laws live and that brings us to the point here which is to say Ben has joined the ranks as a contributor to the blog Horizon. Ben's a linguist who poses as a software engineer. I think he's just waiting to get into a liberal thinktank or become a professional homebrewer. Can you do that? Become a professional homebrewer? Hmmm. Anyway he could. Mead's good too. So ALL HAIL BEN who reads my site but never comments anymore. Oh well, I'll take what I can get.
As for his most recent entry on Nerd Camp as we called it, well he went to the Duke program and I went to the little-known Joseph Baldwin and John R. Kirk ones every year in Kirksville, MO. So did that determine my course in life? Well I did discover there are islands of cool people and that I was not the only one. Then I came to UT.
Ben went to Rice. I think Rice must be like Nerd Camp for grown-ups--lots of cool people. It would have been fun. I visited, but I wanted to biggest broadest most proletarian yet decent education I could get. Oh and the free one too (due to a clerical error heh heh). So it goes...
And did the summers of Physics and Chemistry and Chaos theory pay off? Well I can vaguely understand my students when they tell me about Chaotic searches and Associative Memory models, but the Nanotechnology just leaves me in the dust, know what I mean?
Buda is also where my Buddy Ben's in-laws live and that brings us to the point here which is to say Ben has joined the ranks as a contributor to the blog Horizon. Ben's a linguist who poses as a software engineer. I think he's just waiting to get into a liberal thinktank or become a professional homebrewer. Can you do that? Become a professional homebrewer? Hmmm. Anyway he could. Mead's good too. So ALL HAIL BEN who reads my site but never comments anymore. Oh well, I'll take what I can get.
As for his most recent entry on Nerd Camp as we called it, well he went to the Duke program and I went to the little-known Joseph Baldwin and John R. Kirk ones every year in Kirksville, MO. So did that determine my course in life? Well I did discover there are islands of cool people and that I was not the only one. Then I came to UT.
Ben went to Rice. I think Rice must be like Nerd Camp for grown-ups--lots of cool people. It would have been fun. I visited, but I wanted to biggest broadest most proletarian yet decent education I could get. Oh and the free one too (due to a clerical error heh heh). So it goes...
And did the summers of Physics and Chemistry and Chaos theory pay off? Well I can vaguely understand my students when they tell me about Chaotic searches and Associative Memory models, but the Nanotechnology just leaves me in the dust, know what I mean?
