Now, Matt, I gotta say I had never heard of you before this afternoon. But, well…
Just take a look for yourself.
Really pretty inspirational if you think about it.
Archive for June, 2008
Where the Hell is Matt?
June 21st, 2008Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers
June 20th, 2008From the “No-Shit-Sherlock” department:
Lucky.
June 16th, 2008I think we really lucked out.
Building damage surprisingly low — Yomiuri Newspaper
broken light fixture
June 14th, 2008Easily fixed, but what could do this to a hanging light?
earthquake!
June 14th, 2008Holy shit. I was gonna sleep in this morning but Planet Earth had other ideas. A magnitude 7.0 quake centered pretty much on my goddamn apartment woke me up some minutes before 9am. The room started shaking violently, to the point where I leapt from my bedding and dove for the doorframe. The shaking continued for about 30 seconds.
During the quake, several pieces of furniture pretty much moved away from the wall on their own. Two mugs fell from the shelves and shattered on the floor, my 50 pound CRT walked itself about a foot across my desk, the microwave nearly fell from the top of the refrigerator, and my motorcycle, which was on its stand, completely fell over.
Crash test
June 11th, 2008Here’s a little something to make you think about the engineering that goes into controlling the destructive power of a traffic accident.
