Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
We're off to spend a week at the luxurious Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas! Several reality TV shows were filmed there, and it was also the site of 2007 MTV Video Music Awards; how odd it is that the resort is also the venue for the mental ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Their horrific cannibalism continued; now only four big triops remain out of the three dozen or so that hatched almost two weeks ago. How's that for a survival tactic? I've been reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy; the novel describes apocalypse survivors who resort to cannibalism due to ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
There are much fewer little triops swimming around today. Looks like somewhere around 15 or so. I don't see any floaters or sinkers, so I think the stronger triops have turned the weaker/smaller ones into tasty snacks. Triops Thunderdome!
It is almost magical how these things can came ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Day two of growing triops is going well. The little triops seem slightly larger already; it is easier to make out their legs and tails. They are very active. It is hard to see if cannibalism has ensued, since I didn't count all those tiny little dots ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
I bought Iris a triops kit a while back. Triops are like sea monkeys, but cooler. You get these tiny, dried out eggs that are in a state of diapause, or dormancy. Just add distilled water at the right temperature, and watch the triops hatch and grow. ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
These burgers are offered by The Vortex Bar & Grill in Atlanta:
I should try them when I go to Atlanta in July. That way, I won't have to buy the return ticket to fly back to Roanoke.
I wish more businesses shared The Vortex's policies:
WARNING
The Vortex Bar & Grill is ...
Posted in animals, food, funny, travel | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Sergey and Larry have released an important announcement:
(youtube link)
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
At the EvoStar 2008 evolutionary computation conference in Naples, Italy (man, I wish I could have gone), three scientists have released the completely free and downloadable book, "A Field Guide To Genetic Programming".
Genetic programming (GP) is a systematic, domain-independent method for getting computers to solve problems automatically ...
Posted in computing, tech | 2 Comments »