Yesterday, I made the best fake ever in ultimate. The guy actually fell over and hurt himself.

I faked left; ran right. He steped left, turned on the wet grass, fell on his knee, and tore it open. Yikes! It was really gross. And he just let it bleed.

Speaking of ultimate, I hereby give myself the Yellow Badge of Courage for attending. I had to walk home from work, and a storm was descending. I made a decision to deal with the thunder and to play ultimate anyway.

I got really sick, but I played and I stayed the entire time. Helluva storm too.

I know all of my faithful readers out there are really big into hydrodynamics, so I'm sure you've all heard of the Lax-Wendroff advection algorithm. Yes, yes, we all have. We all write simulators that use the Lax-Wendroff, and despite it's inherent oscillitory artifacts behind discontinuties, we love it.

Ok, so who am I kidding. No one that reads this has ever heard of Lax-Wendroff. But it's an algorithm I deal with everyday. And today.... I met Burton Wendroff. Mr. Wendroff. It's kind of like being a biologist and meeting Charles Darwin or something. He's a celebrity in my field, and I just ran into him at lunch.

I recognized his face from the picture on his website. I didn't realize he worked at the lab. But there I was eating my lunch when this grey-haired man with a pony tail walks by, reminding me of George Carlin with glasses.

John was kind enough to introduce him to me, and now I'm having a meeting with him next week to discuss my implementation of his algorithm! Wow I'm a big dork, but this is so cool!

So my friend Jessica got all her CDs stolen, and is replacing them all with MP3s. She was asking me to recommend some songs to download from Gnutella. Aphex, Future Sound, Autechre, Massive Attack... I'd type in a band and a song title and she'd go search for it. I actually got her to search online for a band called "Candied Ass Rangers."