the abridged Williams summer encounter list, in chronological order
August 26th, 2006- The Williams Physics department
- Marcus
- Mary Beth
- Lisa
- Alden
- Sean (‘04)
- Sarah (‘04)
- Tyler
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Ithacan Funtime
August 26th, 2006- Gorge
- Grad students
Snakesona Planethe Commons - Drizzle
- Casablanca
- Couches
- Free pizza from the program for diversity in engineering
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things I would LOVE to say to Karl Rove
August 21st, 2006- “Hi, Mister Rove. It’s a pleasure to finally see you in the flesh. I just wanted to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt opinion that you, sir, are a slimy, mudslinging scumbag.”
- “Your forehead is way too large for a normal homo sapiens specimen.”
- “Hello, Mister Rove. You are indicted.”
- “No, Mister Rove, you cannot write a signing statement for an indictment.”
- “Mister Rove? Uh, excuse me? Mister Rove? Man, I’ve never seen anyone run so fast.”
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last four dinner menus
August 19th, 2006- Indian food (restaurant): success!
- Grilled kielbasa; mixed broccoli, carrots, water chestnuts, and peppers (only partly from frozen veggie bags); rice: rousing success!
- Abortive cheeseburger; potato chips; leftover Indian food; orange: partial failure!
- Spaghetti; meat sauce; green beans: success!
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August 18th, 2006- void
- space
- oblivion
- emptiness
- vacancy
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things I would not like to find in my left shoe in the morning
August 14th, 2006- a breeding pair of scorpions
- lime jello
- saguaro cacti
- kryptonite shards
- Condoleeza Rice
- Western Europe
- fire
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missing right now:
August 11th, 2006- my files
- blog readership
- sanity
- a plane ticket back to the Southwest
- my college friends
- my motivation
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some items
August 7th, 2006- One (1) 6B pencil
- One (1) “CD Stomper” compact disc labelling tool
- One (1) old radio, cont. four (4) knobs
- One (1) pile of rocks
- One (1) nine-cell Lenovo laptop battery
- One (1) inactive imagination
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were I elected President, my inaugural would contain the following Kennedyesque national goals to be achieved before the decade is out
August 3rd, 2006- To have 50% of the electricity produced in the United States come from renewable sources (solar, hydroelectric, tidal, geothermal, wind, biomass, etc)
- To have 40% of the new automobiles sold in the United States run on electricity
- To have a further 30% of the new automobiles sold in the United States run on hybrid or flex-fuel engines
- To form an international organization, funded and directed by a UN office, that consists of expertly trained, high-technology equipped special forces operations units dedicated to pursuing terrorists and operating from independent but coordinated cells
- To land a probe on Europa and people on Mars
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