Weekend trip to Berlin, and work in a few hours. Because I’m lazy and have just discovered the wonders of Picasa, I leave you with this photo collection. Enjoy!
Update Jun 18 2009: Facebook seems to have thought the better of it and scrapped it. Imminent merger with Twitter? As it is, any updates to my FB status show up on Twitter, and vice versa. It’s only a matter of time. Xiaonei.com, the Chinese Facebook clone, already restricts users to status updates of 140 [...]
A work of art indeed. This video was produced for my own entertainment as well as for the use of Shaina Adams, Program Manager at Penn Abroad who is in charge of, among other things, the Peking University exchange programs (including the Wharton-Guanghua business school exchange program). I enjoyed splicing together random shots of my [...]
Total eclipses are a luxury of our time. Future beings will not be able to experience this magical natural phenomenon which turns day into night. From my class notes: The Moon’s average distance from Earth increases by 3.8 centimeters per year. Such a precise value is possible due to Apollo laser reflectors which astronauts left [...]
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