Susanna's Birthday

Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday Dear Susanna
Happy Birthday to You

Stick Shift

Well I got back on the horse and tried driving some more and this time it clicked. After trying the driveway and a couple of parking lots I then took on some small streets. I stalled at about half of the stop signs but the rest of the drive went fairly well. Susanna was a good teacher and very patient as I jerked the car back and forth.

Stick Shift

I'm in Swarthmore at Susanna's house for passover and Susanna's parents have a stick shift car so Susanna offered to teach me how to drive it. We were just going up and down the drive way and I was starting to get a few reasonable starts (I never got it without any jerks, but I think a few of them there was only one jerk, rather than bouncing back and forth). Then I lost it and stalled out several times in a row and then the car had trouble starting so we decided to take a bit of a break. Maybe I'll try again later today but I'm not sure how much damage I want to do to Susanna's parents car...

Baker House Piano Drop 2005: Drop Date has a new meaning

How do MIT students celebrate the last day on which they can drop a class? Apparently they drop a piano off the roof of a 6 story building... It did break apart, although I still think dropping pumpkins of the 21 story building for halloween looks cooler.
Baker House Piano Drop 2005: Drop Date has a new meaning

Robust Remote

While doing laundry a few days ago (yeah it happens occasionally), Susanna and I had trouble finding the TV remote. We looked and looked and eventually gave up. When the drier was done I headed down to get the laundry. I opened the drier and noticed two batteries which seemed very odd. I also recognized the cheap off brand look. I was about to throw them out when I noticed the little part on the remote you remove to replace the batters also in the drier. I quickly went through the laundry and of course found the rest of the remote. I took it upstairs and it worked perfectly. I was quite impressed (well impressed enough to blog about it).

For a while there I flew across the country each month to talk to another company, now my big excitement is that the washing machine didn't destroy my remote. Looks like it's time to get a hobby...