There are a couple of things that I’ve noticed I enjoy doing roughly once a year. I’m not sure yet why I engage in these “secular rituals”. So far they include only:

Watching the entire series of Cowboy Bebop
Reading (or attempting to read) Gödel, Escher, Bach
Watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (and the original [...]

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There’s a problem that New Orleanians often encounter when trying to encourage people to come for the Mardi Gras (said, “da Mawdi Graw”) — namely, they think it’s all about flashing (boobs for beads!).
With that in mind, I took some pictures this year to highlight the fact that it’s only that way in the French [...]

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Good to see that he tells it like it is — you won’t hear any mention of this stuff from the administration at Tulane, you’ll just hear a pile of euphemisms, but we (who were or are there) know it to be true:

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Happy New Year! My friend Rob literally rang in the new year last night with a pot and spoon at my wife’s apartment in New Orleans. (No falling bullets were encountered.)
2007 was a very interesting year — a year throughout which I lived entirely in Baltimore, with regular jaunts to the Big Easy. This year [...]

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I’ve been totally absent from most of my life the last week as a result of some problems we had with our code on the cluster. My jobs kept dying, taking down compute nodes in the process, for no apparent reason. After a while I narrowed it down to the time when restart files (from [...]

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