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I’ve been preparing for the GRE since summer, July, actually. Tuesday I take the test. That may explain why writing here has been so sparse.

I’m a bit daunted, I’m doing the drills about where I need to, and yet I still worry. When the 4 hours is up I will see two numbers, thereafter I shall be elated ( whee! ) or, like the proverbial groundhog, shall have to return to my study den.

Here’s the truth: I’m sick and tired of the study den!

So, I spend, what I hope, will be this last Saturday looking at quantitative comparisons.

Anyway, here’s a great interview with the inimitable Paul Volcker:

“It seems to me what our nation needs is more civil engineers and electrical engineers and fewer financial engineers,” Volcker said.

(or, “Blame it on Eno”)

Jonny Greenwood: Born 5 November 1971

1974-1980: Tom Baker plays Doctor Who

1973-1979: The Tomorrow People Airs on BBC

Radiohead, Greenwood’s band, release Kid-A, featuring “Everything in its right place”

Yes, it’s the day, the real day.

You can see pictures from the party we had for her over the weekend on Flickr.

I can’t wait to give presents! It’s my favorite part of birthdays!

As I mentioned previously, I’ve been working on a library in Ruby used to model Latin Verbs.

Here’s a 5 minute demo of what you can do: My Latin::LatinVerb + Ruby’s IRB environment produces this:

It’s easier on the eyes if you watch the full-size version at blip.tv

I’m working on building a site around this code base. I hope to release it within the next month, but for the moment, I can give you a small sample of my recondite study.

Today it dawned on me that our generation will never have a leading man like Paul Newman. No my friends, the best we get is Ashton Kutcher.

STEVEN and LAUREN are in the living room. The TV plays something they’re not paying attention to:

LAUREN : Hey I was thinking, I would like to see a movie.

STEVEN: Great, what’s playing

LAUREN grabs her computer and a few keyboard ticks later starts reeling off the names of movies:

LAUREN: “Eagle Eye”, “Burn After Reading”, “Knights of Rodanthe”

STEVEN: Whoa! “Knights of Rodanthe”, what’s that about? Horses and swords? I’m thinking like the “Knights of Cydonia” video by Muse.

LAUREN: No, “Nights in Rodanthe”: the movie with Richard Gere and Diane Lane by the beach.

STEVEN: Oh, uh, no thanks.

LAUREN reads off several other movies

STEVEN: Maybe we should just watch “The Adams Chronicles” instead.

LAUREN: OK.

-Fin-

Here is the “Knights of Cydonia” video: