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Entries from April 2005

More CPUs?

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Here’s the tail end of an email from our cluster administrator:

Any single cardiac user can have anywhere between 160GB to 2TB of data at
any given time. Currently I think we have about 5-10 cardiac users.
Thanks for the help on this. This will be used to determine the amount of
storage space we will need [...]

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My Parents Sold Our House in Michigan

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

The house I grew up in has apparently been sold, with closing pending. Once upon a time I thought that this would be a big deal. I’m finding that I don’t really care that much. Being a college student who now moves approximately every 12 months, I’ve gotten used to residences as temporary places [...]

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Immune System Alert Level Yellow

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

As mentioned previously, I’m going to Niger this summer. I went to see a travel doctor yesterday to make sure that I had all of the necessary powerups… er… vaccines. Based on the risks and my immunization history, here’s what we decided on:

Influenza

Polio booster

Tetanus booster

Typhoid

Yellow Fever

New and Improved Meningitis

All of these but the [...]

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Faces Article

April 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

A little while back I made a post about an old LiveJournal entry and a new article. Going through my bloglines clippings I found the article. It discusses the experimental findings that people can accurately judge personality by looking at someone’s face. You can find the original article here.

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Long-Awaited Update

April 20th, 2005 · No Comments

I know you’re all just dying for an update, but I’ve been in something of a quandry over what to write lately. First of all, let me point out this fine example of how I expect you to pop your collar, if you do at all:

Also, check out my photostream, where I’ve added [...]

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