This is very thrilling. Of course I’m still losing out to a genealogy site, so it reflects more the rarity of my name than my importance in the world. Just like a search for James Giant Corn returns this site as the top hit, there just isn’t a lot of competition. But I sure showed the guy [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
Work, Class, and Dreams of Cake-Shakes
Two years ago, I said the most fun I’d ever had while getting paid was the afternoon I spent doing sequence analysis for a seed company while listening to female fronted metal music. Well I’ve earned more money and had more fun since then, but there’s still something about working at a speed limited only [...]
Floods of ’08
I’m perfectly safe ISU isn’t in the of the cities being hit hardest by the floods. University of Iowa on the other hand is in a lot of trouble. The friend I went out to visit in Iowa City a couple of weeks ago was evacuated from his dorm a week ago, and today the [...]
Graduation and Iowa City
Lots of exciting stuff happening. Graduating. Doing the thousand mile drive for the ninth and likely final time. (Though I’ll be driving twice as far to reach California in the fall, the impossibility of doing the drive in one day, combined with ever rising price of gas makes it unlikely I’ll drive back for breaks). [...]