Where the Hell is Matt?
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.
June 21, 2008
June 20, 2008
Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers
From the "No-Shit-Sherlock" department:
June 16, 2008
Lucky.
I think we really lucked out.
Building damage surprisingly low -- Yomiuri Newspaper
June 14, 2008
earthquake!
Holy 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.
June 11, 2008
Crash test
Here's a little something to make you think about the engineering that goes into controlling the destructive power of a traffic accident.