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Zanzibar
Age. 39
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into:

Samarinda

Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is.
The Phases of the Moon Module
CURRENT MOON
Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s)
Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER


Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee.
The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration
T: Cook a nice dinner
W: PARKOUR!
Th: Parties, movies, dinners
F: Picnics, the Louvre
S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR
Su: Philosophy, Religion
The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006
A Crocodile on the Sandbank
Looking Backwards
Wild Swans
Exodus
1984
Tales of the Alhambra (in progress)
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Lost Years of Merlin
Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress)
Atlas Shrugged (in progress)
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!)
The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time
From Magma to Tephra (in progress)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harry Potter 7
The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency
Introduction to Planetary Volcanism
A Child Called "It"
Pompeii
Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women?
Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress)
What's So Great About Christianity?
Aeolian Geomorphology
Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits
The City of Ember
The People of Sparks
Cube Route
When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard
Bound
The Golden Compass
Clan of the Cave Bear
The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Twilight
Eclipse
New Moon
Breaking Dawn
Armageddon's Children
The Elves of Cintra
The Gypsy Morph
Animorphs #23: The Pretender
Animorphs #25: The Extreme
Animorphs #26: The Attack
Crucial Conversations
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Dandelion Wine
To Sir, With Love
London Calling
Watership Down
The Invisible
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Host
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Shadows and Strongholds
The Jungle Book
Beatrice and Virgil
Infidel
Neuromancer
The Help
Flip
Zion Andrews
The Unit
Princess
Quantum Brain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated
Delirium
Memento Nora
Robopocalypse
The Name of the Wind
The Terror
Sister
Tao Te Ching
What Paul Meant
Lao Tzu and Taoism
Libyan Sands
Sand and Sandstones
Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Science of God
Calculating God
Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill
City of Bones
Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
Divergent
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Old Man and the Sea
Flowers for Algernon
Au Bonheur des Ogres
The Martian
The Road to Serfdom
De La Terre � la Lune (ip)
In the Light of What We Know
Devil in the White City
2312
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Red Mars
How to Be a Good Wife
A Mote in God's Eye
A Gentleman in Russia
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
The Juanes Module


Juanes just needed his own mod. Who can disagree.
We are Not Worthy, We are Not Worthy
Friday. 10.5.07 8:37 pm
The day couldn't have gone better.

I solved my FORTRAN problems. Oh yes, you know, the fortran problems that have been plaguing me pretty much the entire summer? Well I've been solving them, one by one, and after each one there would be another. Now I've solved them. ALL of them. I made a huge break through when I realized that my entire grid was transposed and upside down from the way I had been calling it. Then I fixed it. I invented this brilliant bit of code that solved all my other problems. Ta-DA! I went into the computer lab where Seth was and danced an irish jig. Then I ran around the building. Then I came back and reveled while sitting at my desk. Now I can stop throwing myself into janitor closets evertime I see my geophysics professor and instead have a meeting with him where I show him how awesome I am.

This week that my advisor has been gone has been one of the most productive weeks of the entire year. Not just for me, either! Joe made a major breakthough in his research and rekindled his dying love for the planet Mars. Caleb made the most amazing figure that any of us had EVER seen. We were all just totally flabbergasted. There's this place on Mars where an ancient river flowed across the land and deposited a bunch of different layers as it slowly changed course. Then it slowly changed back the other way, eventually making a sort of a Z when you look at it in cross-section. Anyway, somehow or the other (maybe by erosion, maybe by tectonic uplift or whatever) this whole sequence can be seen from above by the satellite, because it is lying on a hill with an approximately 20 degree slope. So he used photoshop to actually adjust the image to show you what it would look like if you were standing on the ground and looking straight at it. Now everyone who said that it wasn't an ancient river, but was actually lava or something, will be TOTALLY OWNED. Plus he looked at it with the spectrometer to get some information on the composition of the rocks: they're clays. It was amazing. He's so BRILLIANT!
He's going to use it in a talk he's giving at the next Mars Lander conference. He is supposed to suggest a landing site that he wants to go to on Mars and then support why it is that he wants to go there. With this figure on his side, there is no WAY they can even think of going anywhere else. The engineering part may be a bit of a challenge, but that's what engineers are for, right? Living up to ridiculous challenges?

When you read in the news in a couple of years that we're going to Mars and we're landing in this one crater with the delta-y-river-stuff going on, know that Caleb, a random 27-year-old grad student was the one who said we should go there. See? You don't have to be old to change the world.

So then I went shopPING! And I got all this cool stuff. And I ate mall chinese. Well, I only ate less than half of what they gave me because you can only have so much mall chinese. And with the extra $75 I made working at the museum last Saturday I bought myself the newest version of Dance Dance Revolution. What am I doing writing a blog? I'm going to play it right now! You can even dance to J. Timberlake (no how heavy is that?)

I think after the next time I work at the museum, I'll buy myself Guitar Hero. I just can't imagine actually making $25/hr in real life. I mean, 3 hrs, $75, wtf? I would be SO RICH!!! Every three hours I could buy myself almost two brand new video games! I would run out of things to buy! I've already run out of things to buy! If I had any money right now I would have to think for like a day to think of something that I needed or wanted. Well. Actually. I'd probably take a vacation in England. But ain't that the trouble. When you got the money you ain't got the time, and when you got the time you ain't got the money.
1 Comments.


Whats fortran?

I like all mall food for some reason.. Except sbarros. Its always either perfect or so nasty I cant even look at it. And its generally that one lol.
» lyndeep on 2007-10-06 12:07:42

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