Tonight was the reception “TG” for new students of the Language Technologies Institute. TG is the general term given to parties thrown in the department of computer science at CMU. Typically TGs are thrown on Fridays by the student organization Dec/5. So TG as in TGIF. So anyhow, I tried a new beer that I [...]
Archive for 21 August 2007
Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat
Posted: 21 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: beer, cmu, fruity pebbles, lti, party, tg
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Roasted coffee and German satellites
Posted: 21 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: coffee, germany, gmail, moon, space, spaceflight, W
Gmail features web clips over the menu bar that you can customize and often spew some sort of advertisement. One such is for the Coffee Fool. They make the claim that fresh coffee should be a sweet drink and that bitterness and flatness are a result of the roasting process. I’ve been very curious to [...]
Water Walls
Posted: 21 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: architecture, art, environmentalism, green, niftiness, spain, water
Now here’s something that ought to be visually stunning. Walls made of water in an outdoor cafe. When the cafe is not in use, the roof is lowered via its piston supports. When it is in use, a multitude of valves send sheets of water down its side to form the walls. A computer controls [...]
