I’ve held out for too many days of passover without getting Matzo, so on the way home tonight I stopped by Kroger to pick some up. It turns out they only sell matzo in sets of 5 boxes. In each box there are roughly 10-12 big giant crackers. Now, I don’t think my entire family…

IMG_6420.JPG Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. Yesterday was an awesome day, another fantastic birthday. 24 feels good, same as 23 for the most part. Last night, after a 9pm to 10pm phone interview, I headed out to Yogi’s to meet up with a group of friends. I haven’t been out in a long long time, and…

And you know what that means!!! At 1:02 a.m and 3 seconds, tomorrow, on April 5, 2006, it will be: “01:02:03 04-05-06” Scientists say that’s once in a lifetime! I’ve received that email about a million times now… What else is on April 5th…hmm?

Went for the Friday morning run. Was feeling good, though running a little late. Warmed up. Decided to go at race pace. Wanted to see where I was at, how my body is adapting to regular exercise. One mile. 6 laps. Ready. Set. Go. Lap 1: 50 seconds Laps 2-5: 55-65 seconds Lap 6: 60…

Happy early birthday to me! I stopped by the Informatics building this morning to check my mail (My office is in a building on the other side of campus) and to my surprise I found a BIG GIANT BOX! I popped it open and found birthday presents! Wahoo! Until this point it didn’t really sink…

I listenened to a podcast this morning that was called “7 Steps to Successful User Interface Design.” It was created by and for a company called Classic System Solutions and played out like a really bad infomercial. I was just ready for the main speaker to scream out, “Just Set It!” then allowed the over-enthusiastic…

Yesterday for the Sunday Evening Dinner Series I prepared a pot of Avoglemono. I used the recipe that was raved about in this Epicurious comment thread. In case you aren’t in the know, Avoglemono is a Greek egg-lemon soup. You should try it next time you’re at a nice Greek restaurant. It’s a little strange…

Ah, to be a college freshman again. I feel like my memories of freshman year are starting to fade. I really don’t want that to happen. That year was certainly a crazy one. I probably learned more about life in general in that 9 month period than I have in any other time of my…

On my room allergies. Last night I took a stand. I went to Bed, Bath, & Beyond and bought $90 worth of supplies. A new blanket for my bed, allergy reducing pillow covers, and Antimite. The scariest thing I bought is definitely the Antimite. It claims that it will kill the little bugs that live…

Yesterday I figured out how to connect to Flickr and Google through their Java APIs. That was fun. I had been interested in doing this for a while, and now the opportunity came up in a Java class I’m taking. We’ll be developing a little tool that I’ll probably be talking more about in the…