Mr. Wright (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mr_wright) wrote,@ 2007-09-08 23:36:00 |
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Pittsburgh! Chicago!
I just got back from visiting Pittsburgh. The visit was great, and this year's group of freshmen seems awesome. I think I graduated too early! Thanks tochrisamaphone and gustavolacerda for giving me a place to stay, and to them and everyone else I saw for making the visit awesome!
I'm now in Chicago, moved into my new apartment. Orientation starts on Monday; classes start two weeks after that(!).aleffert, who will soon be my apartment-mate, will be here in a week. The apartment seems quite nice so far, and is near enough to campus that I can (just barely) use the campus wireless Internet, if my laptop is in just the right place. I still need to find a good ISP around here, though...
chrisamaphone wrote my PhD thesis for me. Here's the front and the back. This will make grad school much easier!
00: Vangelis - Alpha. If this sounds familiar, it's probably because you saw Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series. If you haven't, you should; that show did a lot for me when I was young in getting me interested in science. Not to mention that the soundtrack, with Vangelis' music, is awesome.
01: Schandmaul - Dein Anblick
02: Vienna Teng - Between
03: Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends theme (sleepsong)
04: John Du Prez - Ending theme of Captain Star, an amusing cartoon that was broadcast in Quebec when I was younger.
05: Loreena Mckennitt - Caravanserai (sleepsong)
06: Robyn Miller - Catherine's Freedom (from Riven) (gaussjordan)
07: REM - Driver 8 (betaphen)
08: Hungry Lucy - Fearful
09: Machinae Supremacy - Great Gianna Sisters; cover of Chris Huelsbeck's music for Great Giana Sisters on the c64 (note: you'll need a SID player to play the original). The same band did covers of several other SID tunes, and some of the sounds you hear are made by a Sidstation, a synthesizer based on the c64's music chip.
10: Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (sleepsong)
11: Assemblage 23 - Madman's Dream
12: Depeche Mode - New Life
13: Carbon Leaf - Toy Soldiers (rbraun)
14: Seabound - The Promise (alternate version)
15: Show of Hands - Tall Ships.
I just got back from visiting Pittsburgh. The visit was great, and this year's group of freshmen seems awesome. I think I graduated too early! Thanks to
chrisamaphone and gustavolacerda for giving me a place to stay, and to them and everyone else I saw for making the visit awesome!I'm now in Chicago, moved into my new apartment. Orientation starts on Monday; classes start two weeks after that(!).
aleffert, who will soon be my apartment-mate, will be here in a week. The apartment seems quite nice so far, and is near enough to campus that I can (just barely) use the campus wireless Internet, if my laptop is in just the right place. I still need to find a good ISP around here, though...chrisamaphone wrote my PhD thesis for me. Here's the front and the back. This will make grad school much easier!00: Vangelis - Alpha. If this sounds familiar, it's probably because you saw Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series. If you haven't, you should; that show did a lot for me when I was young in getting me interested in science. Not to mention that the soundtrack, with Vangelis' music, is awesome.
01: Schandmaul - Dein Anblick
02: Vienna Teng - Between
03: Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends theme (
sleepsong)04: John Du Prez - Ending theme of Captain Star, an amusing cartoon that was broadcast in Quebec when I was younger.
05: Loreena Mckennitt - Caravanserai (
sleepsong)06: Robyn Miller - Catherine's Freedom (from Riven) (
gaussjordan)07: REM - Driver 8 (
betaphen)08: Hungry Lucy - Fearful
09: Machinae Supremacy - Great Gianna Sisters; cover of Chris Huelsbeck's music for Great Giana Sisters on the c64 (note: you'll need a SID player to play the original). The same band did covers of several other SID tunes, and some of the sounds you hear are made by a Sidstation, a synthesizer based on the c64's music chip.
10: Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (
sleepsong)11: Assemblage 23 - Madman's Dream
12: Depeche Mode - New Life
13: Carbon Leaf - Toy Soldiers (
rbraun)14: Seabound - The Promise (alternate version)
15: Show of Hands - Tall Ships.
