I took a trip up to the Twin Cities for a Target interview this past Friday. That silver thing is a wing. Also, planes rule.

Somewhere between Madison and Minneapolis.

Placed on list of, “must visit.”



Tioga Lake

Originally uploaded by jauderho.

from the bloggers over at flickr blog

they’re taking over the world!

Originally uploaded by lomokev.

With school starting relatively soon, and the GRE on the all-too-near horizon, I’ve been studying. Jealous? On that note, here’s a select few of my current work-in-progress goals (and yes, there are more, you have no idea).

Ongoing Goal of the Day: 100 new GRE vocab words, plus review of the previous days.

Side Goal of the Week: Research one new beer a day after studying vocab, then proceedingly buy-and-try [with friends] a sixpack/pitcher/bottle of one of the beers at the end of the week (aka, Friday).

Goal of the Month: Figure out what schools I will apply to for graduate studies.

Goal of the Year: Figure out 100 new (plausible and implausible) business ideas.

Goal of this Fall: Find two awesome classes to take Spring semester, neither of which have to do with the hard sciences, Math, Economics or ISyE.

In an effort to test my statistical know-how, and to publicize the heightened viewership here at pyktech, I have constructed this detailed graph of unique visitors per month (during 2006)

My next post will outline other important statistical guides, such as what growth measurement models work the best with modeling website traffic—moving average, exponetial, seasonal etc… The predictor used on above plot is a, “Cingular, Raising The Bar,” model-type, showing obvious growth into the month of August, as noted by the arrow bursting through the top of the graph.

In other news, I put up a new design. Wordpress rocks for ease-of-use, no lie.

Are these bricks supposed to be comfortable? They are an interesting idea and look comfortable, but I mean, c’mon, cork? How sweet would it be if these were pillows instead. Mini pillows that you could stack like Legos. Pillow blocks would definitely be better than a Birkenstock-esque floor-wall-“sofa.” Granted, I understand the “design” concept… (except for the one in the bathtub, but maybe someone else can explain that) but regardless. The “sofa” brick is just not quite sofa-enough.

*cough* Perhaps a free sample brick would change my mind.

First viewed from our friends over @ boing boing

Recently posted some camping pictures in the gallery involving the Rochester crowd. Check them out—

Check it. Yes, those are Bigg3ie’s legs.
In addition I will be posting some sweet stuff in the coming week. New pictures from the previous semester and books I have finished/will be finishing are first up. You (yes you) might be in one of them. Ridiculous.
Other bloggable things to look forward to—

• UW Madison study places
• Premiere State Street and surrounding area restaurants
• Pictures of food that I enjoy eating

Until then, go outside.

I made a couple bacon waffles on Monday, as a test run. To recall, the bacon waffle is a waffle with baked-in-bacon-pieces, and sprinkled bacon pieces on top.

Not bad, I must say. However, I do prefer the onslaught of sugar inherent within a solid (as in tight) chocolate-chip (as in dark or milk) waffle with bacon as a side. Ain’t nothin’ better.

Next on the list of breakfast items to explore will be Oscar Mayer’s Center-Cut Bacon. Will it decrown Hormel Black label, my bacon of choice? Is the “cut” in weight of Center-Cut’s 12oz package vs. the traditional 16oz worth it?
Stay tuned.