i woke up early today so i could run downtown to one of those coin shops on bromfield (of which there are > 4). they really didn't sell to my type of collecting; they were more baseball cards, political pins, etc... plus some coins.

they didn't have the chronological books of coins that i am always looking for and have only found once in a store that has since gone out of business.

they did, however, have big buckets of old coins through which i searched for about an hour. i ended up buying a handful of silver quarters, silver dimes, silver war nickels, and mercury dimes. i also picked up a random assortment of foreign coins from countries i didn't already have and a whitman folder for those indian head pennies i won from ebay.

i'm so flighty...

i ordered more memory for my camera from buy.com, and i'm an idiot. i knew that my camera only supported 2 and 4 meg cards, but their website listed a 16 meg card and said that it worked in my camera, so i bought it. well, it came today and it doesn't work and i'm pissed.

also arriving today was a shipment of rubberbands from debello. hundreds of them, all too small to fit on the megaball, so i had to put them all on microbuddy. it grew by about 2 or 3 cm, and is now larger than a baseball. also in this shipment were about 50 rubberbands too small for microbuddy, so a new ball was born! still working on a name for it. suggestions? nano-pal is the only thing i came up with so far and i'm not sure i like it.

cauchy integrals are really cool.

i was talking to rolf at about 11:30 tonight and we decided that we were hungry. boston is one of those weird cities (read: not new york) that shuts down really early. the only places we knew of that were open for food were uno's in harvard square and the pour house over in the back bay. rolf decided that he was lazy, so i went there and we went to uno's.

as i was leaving, i noticed that i had forgotten my ID card, but i was going to just catch the last subway so i didn't turn back to grab it.

this marks the third time (out of three trips) that rolf and i have eaten at uno's in the last three weeks. we want to make a movie about hackers that is realistic yet exciting, and it must include kung-fu, skateboarding, and porno as well.

back at arsdigita, phil asked me, "when are you going to start doing something useful." implying that somehow coding tcl database apps was more useful than nuclear physics research. hrmm...

i finally figured out the proper pronunciation of 'samoyed' and it's just like it looks: SAM-oh-yed. at least, that's how phil says it. i had always imagined those dogs being really expensive, but it turns out they're not because they're not what most people want in a dog. they're bigger than most people want their dogs to be, but they're no good as guard-dog types; they're not aggressive at all.

phil says a samoyed puppy costs $500-$1000, which means that i want one.

rolf and i finally watched my DVD of brazil. it's actually a different version than the american VHS one. there's about 10 minutes of new footage, and a few parts are missing. i'm not sure which i like more; i'll have to watch it a few more times first. 36 inch TVs rock.

afterwards, it was 4:45am and i had clearly missed the subway, so i walked home. when i got to ashdown, the fact that i had forgotten my ID card became a big problem fast. there is no desk worker at night, and no one to let me in. MIT is unlike coe in the sense that you can't call security to have them let you into a building.

i went to the 24-hour coffeehouse in the student center. and hung out there until 6:30. i went back to ashdown and waited for someone to come down and let me in. some random guy came at 6:45. ugh.