Published by Lee on 9/30/2006
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Let’s review what’s happened this week in the life of Lee…
- I got called a racist against the Chinese for making fun of Jet Li’s latest movie and for calling Naruto funny.
- I watched a building blow up near my apt.
- I finished part one of my research.
- I found a coupon book for 10 frosties at Wendy’s for $1.
- A family friend’s mother died
- I got a parking ticket on campus and my appeal didn’t go through
I’m going to watch the GA Tech/VA Tech game. I think there’s something like a 17 point spread. We’ll see how this goes.
All in all, I’d say this week sucks but has its highlights.
Published by Lee on 9/25/2006
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Check out this awesome site I found. It’s got maps to everything. This is its description of itself:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps.
It helped me find this map of Atlanta, and I might try some things on it.
Published by Lee on 9/24/2006
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We’re taking full advantage of the apartment situation… the latest being a Netflix subscription.
Combining with our free TV/DVD combo, it synergistically kicks ass.
Published by Lee on 9/22/2006
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Morality does suck. I feel sorry for this girl, and I wonder why should couldn’t just take a bunch of birth control pills to help herself out.
Published by Lee on 9/21/2006
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Kickball registration will end soon. Anybody else want to register with me?
I am moving soon. I have to move 1 bed and 1 dresser from 2 different locations, and possibly 2 couches. I need someone with a truck or van and 1 or 2 people with strong muscles to help. I will pay in food, cash, or beer. Know anyone?
While my company’s headquarters is in Israel, the American part is located in Boston. Since the American market is huge- it is important that the company has people working in America, in an American fashion, and in American time. Don’t forget, if you are on EST, Israel is 7 hours ahead. Needless to say- as an employee based in American- trying to make travel arrangements for U.S. travel is difficult to do when the travel agent is located in another time zone. The fiasco began week ago when my boss told me to tell Nir (the Israeli travel agent) to book flights for me that were to mirror my boss’s so I could travel with my boss and learn more about my new job. I am unsure if Nir doesn’t understand that the U.S. is huge and has 4 time zones, is stupid, uncaring, or stupid and uncaring. The first flight was from L.A. to Atlanta leaving L.A. at about 10:30pm and arriving in Atlanta in the wee hours of the morning. I was SO TIRED the next day. The second trip where I encountered a problem was where he had me flying from San Diego (again leaving late at night) with an hour LAYOVER in Vegas. Think I was tired when I arrived in Atlanta at 5:30 in the morning? How do you think I felt when I got a message on my blackberry from Nir at 5:45AM asking me if he should confirm the next set of travel arrangements he had in store for me? So rather than freak out on him, I replied that I was very tired from my overnight flight and I would need to get back to him later. He actually wrote back immediately saying “please advice the number of minutes it will be”. Can you believe that!?!?!? What if I was home in Atlanta and not awake at 5:45 in the morning to reply? Well I can guess based on the 2:30AM missed phone call I had from the week before- and the 2:45AM email I had from my boss requesting I call Nir about my flight reservations. If I hadn’t responded that morning I would have gotten phone calls and more emails at inappropriate hours. More on this later. It gets better, I promise.
Published by Lee on 9/20/2006
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I find it funny when I catch someone saying something like this:
Phil: Lee, your car has a lot of bird poop on it. Where does all that bird poop come from?
Lee: HAHAHAHA
The answer, by the way, is a bird’s cloaca.
Published by Lee on 9/16/2006
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For those of you who don’t know, I am a TA at my school for biology lab.
I have never, ever seen a lab like the one that’s coming up next week. We’re going outside, and turning the students into prey. All the while, we’re going to be emphasizing the role of genes and some other things to be revealed next week.
Anyway, it should be a nice change in what we’re doing, and I’m definitely bringing my camera!
Published by Lee on 9/16/2006
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So it was last week or the week before when Mike, my roommate took apart a cardboard cereal box and wrote “Welcome” on it. Of course, this was done with our Target Red marker. We then put it outside for our welcome mat.
A short while later (maybe a day later), we found our mat outside the apartment directly across the hallway. We tried moving our mat back to our door, but it kept on migrating back across the hall!
We responded by writing “mat stealers” on it so that it now read “Welcome mat stealers.”
Also, we made a second, bigger mat with “Welcome” on it.
A couple of days later, I happened to see some people I knew walking by our apartment talking about the mats. I gave them the story thus far, and one said that he would be pretty upset if someone took his mat. And then for some reason he picked up the mat stealer’s mat and walked away. Maybe he was drunk…?
After that, I went inside to eat dinner, and when I walked out afterwords, our huge mat was not only on the mat stealer’s side, but it was taped above their door!
A couple of days ago, even the big mat was gone 
But last night, there was a very decorated mat that only a girl would make… a girl from the mat stealer’s apartment methinks.
To be continued!
Published by Lee on 9/10/2006
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I was just thinking of a poem that I encountered in my genetics lab, sophomore year at Oxford.
It was on the tub used to dump all the fruit flies in, and it was full of this alcohol meant to drown them.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
It refers to how we used them to mess with their genetics. And then we disposed of them.
Kinda sad.
Published by Lee on 9/8/2006
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I was listening to a seminar lecturer today, and she said a really good analogy, comparing engineering and biology.
Given that you have a radio that doesn’t work,
- The engineer looks at the specs for the radio, goes through each part systematically until it does work. If something doesn’t work, then it’s probably your fault or something wasn’t accounted for.
- The biologist takes 100 different radios, disabling one specific part at a time. When the biologist sees a radio malfuntioning in the same way as the main radio, they know what the problem is and how to fix it.
How appropo.
Published by Lee on 9/6/2006
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Anyone want to see this movie at Emory with me next week, Sept 13?
warning: the link to the movie has a movie that will automatically play. This is a warning for those of you who, like me, hate sites with sound and video that automatically start without your say-so.
http://www.flockofdodos.com/
Published by Lee on 9/5/2006
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Dear everyone:
Please write me if you want to play kickball in a league for fun. All I need are tentative answers. And yes James, there will be girls.
Thank you.
Published by Lee on 9/4/2006
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I was recollecting an old story from 8th grade while talking with James and I thought I should write it out.
In high school, there was a large circular driveway where the teachers parked perpendicularly and where parents would pick up their kids (including me!). It was one way, and while I waited to be picked up, I entertained myself by shouting “WRONG WAY” to people who went the wrong way in the driveway. There were quite a few of these misdemeaners everyday.
Anyway, on one such occassion, I shouted “WRONG WAY! WROOOOOONG WAY!,” and the driver actually hit a parked car! The perpendularly parked car was hit so hard, it was at an angle. The driver got out of her car, giving me a gesture that I never forgot: the victory sign but with her palm towards herself, and she yelled “fuck you” to me.
When she got out of her car, it kept rolling, and she frantically got back inside to stop it. Then when she was about to rush me, some school officials came outside and escorted her into the school.
I’ll never know if I was in any real danger. I was picked up 5 or 10 minutes later, and I never saw her again.
