For the Love of Set!

We all have our nerdy pleasures. My brother, for instance, is the total man’s man—confident, athletic, good looking, by no means a typical nerd—but even he gets tickled reading his HTML manual and perturbed by the use of redundant acronyms like ATM machine. I, for one, get really animated about philosophies of metaphysics. [...]

Hooray!

Hooray! At last! My very own PHOTO PORTFOLIO! Check it out! My brother, in his emerging computer science genius, has been working night and day (practically) building me a beautiful website at emilycapo.com. I have my own dot com! This is so exciting! I feel so professional!
You may remember [...]

There, I fixed It.

Failblog recently linked to a site I had never seen before called There, I fixed It.  It is a photoblog full of shoddy quick-fixes for everything from a homemade jacuzzi (a bathtub over a campfire) to a fire alarm alternative (A jiffypop hung from the ceiling).  The site doesn’t have nearly as many entries as [...]

Inspiration in Stone

I had the occasion to go to Washington DC this past weekend. I hadn’t been there in years, so I was really excited to go exploring. Most of all I wanted to have a Mr. Smith moment at the Lincoln Memorial.
For those of you who don’t know, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is, [...]

Nerd Stuff

My brother just introduced us to Ted Talks (www.ted.com), a website of free videos on subjects ranging from the psychology of psychopathic killers to the nature of time. It is a nice way to take a gander into some of the forefront of scientific thought in many different fields. Ted Talks does a [...]

Mountain-top Eavesdropping

A few days ago I hiked to the top of Bear Mountain. Not a major feat, as it is only about a mile and a half ascent, but it was one of the top-ten days of the year, as my dad likes to say, so a nice little day hike was certainly called for. [...]

America the Beautiful

Today in church we sang America the Beautiful to open up the service. At first, I thought it was a little inappropriate if not a little bit cheesy. I love the Fourth of July, but I went to church for a spiritual message, not superficially patriotic plug. I quickly realized this was [...]

I did it!

I did it! I did it! La la la la la la! I completed the triathlon! Yes, it was only a sprint triathlon, but still, I did it!
The morning of the race I awoke apprehensive and slow moving. I told myself that it was going to be fun, that it was like [...]