Concerts to see in Atlanta during October and November and my judgmental opinion (regards to Jambase)-

• Oct 27, Stars @ Variety Playhouse. For those interested… too candy-cane poppy for me.
• Oct 12, Caribou @ The Earl. Not really my style, but a decent show. I give up on most slow/mellow bands being any fun to see in concert—save a few like Sigur Ros, who I have yet to see.
• Oct 12-14, The Echo Project… too many bands to list. Expensive. But the Flaming Lips! Do you have unlimited cash? Go check it out. I’ll save my moola for Bonnaroo.
• Oct 14, Rodrigo Y Gabriela @ Rivertown Music and Arts Festival. Definite possibility.
• Oct 30/31, Smashing Pumpkins & Explosions in the Sky @ Fox Theatre. What?! Smashing Pumpkins are back? Who cares, Explosions in the Sky would be good. Shout outs to the gerg here.
• Nov 6, Mum & Tom Brosseau @ Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre. Concert worthy? Meh, Tom Brosseau is boring. Mum is sweet, however.
• Nov 18, The Hold Steady, Art Brut & 1990s @ Variety Playhouse. High potential for a great show here.
• Nov 21, Prefuse 73 @ Drunken Unicorn. This show will be great. Unfortunately Prefuse is more mix-worthy than concert-worthy, and I’ve seen them before. Otherwise would be a surefire “will see.”
• Nov 24, George Clinton & Pfunk @ Atlanta Civic Center. Funk rocks. If it’s cheap I’d go since I have yet to see the “The King of Interplanetary Funksmanship” as wikipedia proclaims.

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Best. Idea. Ever.

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I’m a tea man.

Tea rocks but has the worst name ever. It should be renamed to “rad” to reflect it’s true nature yet keep its same succinctness. You could then have bad rad, which rocks (in name) and sucks (in taste) at the same time.

I would then be a rad man. And if in the extreme future I had kids and had bad rad then I’d be a bad rad dad. Booyah.

I also recommend trying out a tea tasting sometime if you can. Hibiscus tea (rad) tastes crazy. It tastes like a flower. This should not be surprising in retrospect.

Dried Hibiscus flower + tea

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Ah, a vortex. That’s awesome—

Kudos to Scientific American & kottke

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Here is what I will be doing the next four months. Links included free of charge.

• Eat an entire day of Mediterranean Cafe (undisclosed date) Who’s in!?
• Graduate. (May 20th)
• Thenceforth purging my system of any Med Cafe cravings through the aforementioned devouring, I will move out of Madison (May 20th)
• Visit Rochester for ~4 days (May 20-24th)
• Consume Fiesta.
• Move to downtown Seattle, i.e.,  find a place to live before Nish and his roommates kick me out. (May 25th)
• Start an internship at Microsoft. (May 30th)
• Enjoy the summer months, like, ya know, fourth of July, birthday biz, etc… (May-August) Kudos to those that want to visit… I will dress to impress. Ok, that’s not true, but I will pick you up from the airport. Ok, so maybe I’m stretchin’ that a bit too, but I will buy you a beer. Yes, even you mom. And to those who are not visiting—well, no beer, sorry.
• Move out of Seattle, and move over to Atlanta (August 14th) (yeah, the logo on that site is scorchin’ eh?)
• The higher ups have decided that I’m allowed to proceed through more schooling. I thought they were joking, but they seem pretty serious about the whole deal. I’ll be starting down at Georgia Tech (August 20th) doing Operations Research in Stochastics or Optimization.
• Teach undergraduate students. Oh snap, responsibilities. (August 20th and onward)

Thus my undergraduate career has come to an end. So it goes.

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Care of a few physics buds, attained some pics snapped with my treo from on top of Chamberlin Hall. Not a bad sunset indeed.

View from the vantage point down Charter Street

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Woostercollective — a celebration of street art. Self explantory. Here’s a picture to give you a taste :

PsyBlog — PsyBlog features topics that have to do with the brain and thinking, aka, “psychology.” An emphasis on neuroscience topics keeps me interested.

MyMoneyBlog — I’m interested in funky stuff like personal finance, and Jonathan over at MyMoneyBlog has all sorts of cool stuff you can do with your money. Everything from opening new accounts  for an occasional 100 bucks, to crazy stuff like setting up a treasury bill ladder. Very nice stuff.

flickr blog is a nice colorful dose of daily webertainment, and I’ve featured it in the past. They recently featured the Madison, WI- flickr group the other day, so hey, ya gotta give ‘em some street cred.

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In the soon-ending search for a school to continue my studies at, I ended up out in Berkeley, CA. Greets everyone, it’s incredibly nice weather here. 75 degrees? Yowza. Granted it’s no snowy paradise, but I’ll give the sunny atmosphere some midwestern cred regardless.

Here’s a pic of the Berkeley Marina by my hotel in good ol’ camera phone photographic quality—

After the Graduate Program intro this morning, I went out to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to check out a few sites. Basically: gigantic park, lots of stuff to see, wish I had more time. I picked up a gyro right outside the park, and that was that. Great afternoon indeed.

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