Annually, in the beginning of March, UIUC Engineering holds its Engineering Open House. Apparently it’s a pretty big deal, and for a couple of days the school was overrun by visitors of all ages. There were a lot of cool things to see, including robot wars and contests, a Rube Goldberg Machine contest, and a musical Tesla coil presentation. We went in the evening Continue reading ‘Family Update’
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Catherine has updated her family blog, and has added a bunch of great new stuff. A link to it can always be found on Cat’s Sites menu above. (She’s also always got interesting things over at “A Startup Life“!)
Since discovering the new Justice track DVNO, I have been taken back to my days as a youth dance goer when I heard endless replays of another great French electronic music duo, Daft Punk. It’s such cool stuff that I have to share it. First, the classic “Around the World” video: Continue reading ‘French Electronic Music’
A super cool video and song by French group Justice. Makes me feel like I’m watching afternoon reruns of 80′s TV shows.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29448712As Andrew has become more mobile, he has begun getting into areas of the apartment that are not baby friendly. Prime territory for exploration include the bathroom (especially the toilet), and the computer desk. Continue reading ‘Andrew and the Computer’
The year: 1937. The man: Vernon Rudolph. The place: Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The pastry: doughnuts. But, not just any doughnuts, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Continue reading ‘The Doughnut War’
A Three-way Doughnut Duke-it-Out
(A quick note: Doughnuts are good, and any attempt to quantify their goodness is doomed to failure. This being true, I don’t have particularly high hopes for this post, but I’m not going to let that stop me.)
As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of doughnuts, I have always expected Continue reading ‘A Three-way Doughnut Duke-it-Out’