Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
For my second Gowalla trip, I created the Lowcountry BBQ trip.
Most of the destinations are drawn from previous Lowcountry BBQ meatups so with the exception of a couple of places, I’ve sampled the BBQ fare at all of them. It’s probably not a definitive tour, but all the places on it are what I would consider trip-worthy.
Go take the tour. I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy every bite of it.
Just a few days after moving to Charleston, I was in an oddly named grocery store called Publix (at the time I thought it was an odd name).
Walking to the checkout lines, I saw this girl wearing shorts. A fairly ordinary pair of shorts, except printed in great big letters was the word “COCKS”. Right on her butt. Pretty hard to miss.
“Wow, that’s pretty bold advertising” I thought. I mean really, it said “COCKS” in great big letters right on her ass. What else was a guy supposed to think?
It wasn’t until a few of weeks later, after getting a little more settled in and a little more familiar with the local vernacular that I realized her shorts must have referred to the USC Gamecock, and not the other thing I originally thought of.
Keeping track of – signs has always been the bane of my attempts at math. Somehow I always manage to lose track of at least one – sign during the course of working out a problem.
On one notable occasion working on a homework assignment for a boundary value problems class (partial differential equations galore), one question evolved into 13 pages of math scribblings. Eventually I decided it was far too ugly to be any kind of correct, so I pitched it all and started over. I found my mistake in a single – sign on the second page and wrote the solution up in 4 pages.
20 years later, things haven’t changed. Still making the same mistakes with – signs or other silly little math errors. On the BioE 846 quiz I got back today, one of the easier questions I ended up getting wrong because of an off-by-1 mistake.
One positive: with the additional years of experience, I’m at least catching most of my stupid little mistakes earlier.
Classes have been going on for about 3 weeks now, and it hasn’t been too bad so far. BioE 846 (Biomedical Basis for Engineered Replacement) has turned out to be essentially an intro physiology course and BioE 820 (Biomechanics) has just been math review so far (all about tensors).
Basically I’ve been resurrecting a bunch of stuff I learned back in undergrad and grad school oh so many years ago.
Hopefully things will get more interesting soon.
My latest geeky acquisition is this spiffy dice bag from DragonChow.
Handmade by GeekyLyndsay (who happens to live in Calgary of all places), it’s the perfect size to hold the mug-o-dice I picked up at Dragon*Con. I have more dice than I know what to do with now, but at least they’re all contained in this great dice bag. I may have to get back into gaming because of this.