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Here's something I've made in the machine shop, a steel c-clamp. Fun!

Camp Out begins! A really really burnt marshmellow. Saturday Sept. 16. Sooo Tired. After 6 am Sept. 17. Cleaning up the camp sites and preparing to go home (but not before knowing the results of the lottery). Sunday night at my place trying to divide up the games. Our group of four got two tickets! Went to Camp Out 2006. This is the yearly event where graduate students "party" for 36 hours straight in order to be entered into a lottery for basketball season tickets. The way it works is graduate students tent up (or the richer MBA and Law school students rent RVs and UHaul trucks) and randomly wait for whistle checks. Each camper is allowed to miss one whistle check. More than that and you are disqualified. After 36 hours, those who are qualified are entered into a random lottery and the winners are given the opportunity to pay for the $150 season ticket. It's pretty crazy to go through all that for the chance to be able to pay. The past couple of years I was decidedly aga

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The Australia team has such hot clothing! Playing in bathing suits!

Football! Here's a cool website. Teaches you how to do things DIY! http://www.instructables.com/.

This is quite interesting. I never knew sand dunes could make such sounds. That's probably because I've never been on a sand dune! http://www.pmmh.espci.fr/~andreotti/SongOfDunes.html

This is quite funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZeARelaPys&mode=related&search=. Check it out! I've started playing football (or soccer in America) recently. It's a heckuva lot of fun. Running around kicking the ball. I joined an intramural team, and we had a game last night. Although we lost, I haven't felt so excited about a team sport in such a long time. I'm still playing tennis of course, but that's essentially a one on one game. I'll try to get some pics of my gear up, shoes, shin guard...