Memorial Day Stimulation
Lest anyone relax three days in a row, here's some good ol' fashioned brain fodder.
This makes about as much sense as the Neurology I'm reviewing today...
Liveblog: Farmstand peaches
peach season down south.
Wanting to liven up your BBQ this weekend? Chop some peaches, sprinkle
them with cinnamon and a little bit of sugar and wrap them up in tin
foil. Put the tin foil pouch on the grill for about 15 minutes or
until he peaches are sizzling. Serve with some vanilla ice cream or
whipped cream and enjoy!
The Belmont Stakes 2K10
When: Saturday, June 5th; Noon - 9 pm
Where: Party starts at Tonic East at noon (29th St. & 3rd Ave.)
Here is how it all works:
1. Buy a ticket for the buses, which costs a mere $35 and covers round-trip transportation and all the on-board booze. (Tickets are limited, and they will sell out so act fast.)
2. Arrive at Tonic East on June 5th at 12 noon to day-drink for two and a half hours before getting on the buses to Long Island. Buses leave promptly at 2:30 pm.
3. Get to Long Island. Buy a ticket to the races for $10. Booze some more. Gamble at your own risk.
4. ???
5. !?! (consult "just buzzed" friend about this section of the field trip the following morning)
6. Wake up Sunday morning. Put on obnoxious clothes from day before. Kiss / hug / handshake the guy / girl you sat next to on the bus ride home. Subway ride of shame it back to your (or your kind / worried friend's) apartment.
7. Wallow / Schedule STD Screen*.
Buy your tickets here
*JK! It's impossible to get an STD from an OTPHJ. Plus, wallowing is for pussies.
BlitzMail, Your Days Are Numbered
Sad but true. By fall term, BlitzMail will be just a fond memory.
Hopefully I'll find some time over the weekend to wax poetic about Dartmouth Traditions, including our glorious email client, but until then, keep up with the news here.
Photo of the Week: "Lake Michigan"
Every now and then, the lake is unbelievably placid… almost mirror-like. This was one of those mornings - a beautiful sunrise reflected over the water. Unlike the last "Photo of the Week," this picture was created with only one shot. Only a couple enhancements were made to the photo: I boosted the saturation slightly and increased the overall contrast. Quick photo tip and specs after the jump.
Green Key 2010 Fallout: SAE Members Busted...By SAE Member
"Drug use at SAE has been less discreet than at other houses, according to the source, especially in common spaces. On previous occasions, other composites and frames had been removed from the walls and smeared with cocaine residue without being replaced, according to the source."
More from The D here.
Please discuss in the comments.
Submitted Without Comment
APPLE MARKET CAP TOPS MICROSOFT, IS NOW WORLD'S LARGEST TECH COMPANY.
Story here.
*Small comment: The color matching here is uncanny.
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Spicy Fried Rice and So Long NYC
After 3 lovely years of east coast living I am finally moving out. My apartment is 90% packed (movers arriving tomorrow) and my last day of work is Thursday. After a summer of getting married, traveling and living out of parents’ fridges, I should be driving cross–country to my new home in SF in early August. Hopefully by then we will have found a place to live and I will be gainfully employed. I have fantasies of a bigger kitchen to work with and even, wait for it, wait for it… a grill. A girl can dream!
So while I won’t be cooking too much over the next few months I will attempt to cultivate my live blogging skills (which are seriously lacking) by focusing on the awesome culinary photo ops that are sure to arise in my mom’s fridge, various weddings, Hawaii and of course in any diners, drive-ins and dives encountered on my journey west.
My last home cooked meal in my teeny tiny NYC kitchen really developed out of the need to clean out our fridge. Leftover ground turkey, rice and some various asian condiments provided the base for a pretty delicious spicy fried rice. Continue reading for the flavorful goodness…
AMDAL, Politics are BACK! Boom, bitch!
This one slipped under my radar last week, but following up on President Kim/Dartmouth's announcement of the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science (made possible by an anon $35M donation!), President Kim and James Weinstein (of DHMC) submitted this op-ed to the Washington Post. (Whew. Long sentence.)
Jam Of The Week: Asher Roth - "Muddy Swim Trunks"
Sorry it's been a while. Clearly I've been busy liveblogging about virgins, pandas, crabs and drunken haircuts. But after a short hiatus, I've put my shirt back on and have come back with every(any?)body's favorite segment, Jam Of The Week.
This week's JOTW comes to us from one of AMDAL's favorite white boys, Asher Roth. Aside from being white and coming from suburbia, he's followed a pretty well-worn path to success in the modern hip-hop world, namely taking advantage of the art of the mixtape. Mixtapes have been around for almost as long as hip-hop itself and was / is used to build buzz either before artists have "made it" or between albums. It's also my favorite way to get music because they're right in my price range ($0 to Free). "Muddy Swim Trunks" comes off his latest excellent mixtape, "Seared Foie Gras W/ Quince & Cranberry" (download here) .
Besides having a pretty great mixtape and good song above, the video is well done. I love the one-shot but I also like how random it all is (NSFW from 0:56 - 1:02 due to peripheral boobies). The song is all over the place and it's something Asher prides in his work. He sees himself as a weirdo and not a hit-maker (think more "Lark In My Go Kart" and less "I Love College"). I for one am with him on this one.
Check out the runners up after the jump, full of kids fighting, babies on corners and Diddy. Sorry, no Bieber.
Liveblog: PDX
The bar where I watch the Mets is 4 blocks from my apartment. While taking in yet another loss, I stepped outside for a breath of fresh air. Coming back inside, I noticed in the entryway pictures of the winners of this particular bar's 'Inferno Wing' challenge. The wings are apparently quite spicy, as there were only 4 pictures posted. Imagine my surprise, then, to see a familiar face smiling back at me! Photo after the jump...
Pacman!
I must be studying for a big test or something bc flash games are occupying all my time lately.
Go to google.com and play Pacman today!
Photo of the Week: "Chicago Sunrise"
So rather than posting every Thursday about tech stuff you probably don't care about, I'm going to switch it up and start giving you guys a "photo of the week." I'll post a variety of different pictures and brief descriptions about how I captured and edited the shot.For this week, I wanted to show a couple examples of my HDR photography. High Dynamic Range photography, or HDR photography, is something I've always been interested in. Basically, an HDR photo combines a number of photos into one image. The human eye can capture a much larger range of light than any camera sensor, so using several photos can help make up for the loss in range. This is where HDR software comes in, such as Photomatix Pro or Dynamic-Photo HDR. You can really tweak the way your image looks - from absurdly psychedelic to extremely realistic. It's a cool technique that I urge other amateur photographers to try out!
A couple more HDR shots as well as a description of the shot and my camera specs after the jump...
Who Said Flash is Dead?
This may not play on my iPad, but it's still a fun/addicting/fucking awesome game where you just balance a stork as he walks along.
You can play here; but can you beat 177ft?
Enjoy.
Tip o' the cap to the vagina monologue blog I randomly pulled this off of.
Fearing The Boo
Those Who Mind Don't Matter, Those Who Matter Don't Mind
A lot happened this weekend apparently. AMDAL Writer Mrs. K got engaged to AMDAL reader Emily H. Green Key happened. CCL was somewhere warm again. I broke my Virgin cherry but then got crabs. And while I did fly to the East Coast, I wasn't in the Upper Valley, but rather in America's Capital (Capitol?) for a conference called Summit Series. Yea, I had no idea what it was about either. It was pitched to me originally as a conference for young entrepreneurs. I like to think I'm going to be an entrepreneur some day and I do whatever Errik tells me to, so I went. Worse case, I'd meet some people, drink some booze, and hang out with Rob C. while in DC.
Well I did all those things, but I took away a lot more. Nearly every single person I met at Summit Series was doing something. OK, so not everyone was curing cancer (though some were trying) but everyone was on his / her grind. There was the dude who almost went to law school but decided it'd be more fun to start a website that anonymously posted embarrassing text messages. There was the 19 year old who lived out of his car for a summer while he traveled the country doing random acts of kindness for strangers. There was the journalist who learned of childhood soldiers in the Congo too small to carry a gun so they were sent to the front lines to blow whistles and absorb the first round of bullets.
And those were just the attendees.
GreenKey WrapUp
Well, another GreenKey come and gone.
I think I'm approaching 10 GKs now... and like most that I can remember, this one ended in a few engagements/weddings (drunken or otherwise).
Congratulations are in store to Emily and Yale! They were engaged Saturday atop Mt. Moosilauke!
In other Green Key news, if I had a nickel for every time on a big weekend I said, "Wait, have we talked about this already?" then this whole medical school thing would be a free ride.
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Addendum: Apparently also coming out of a successful Green Key weekend, one anonymous(!) blacked-out alum made a $35M donation to Dartmouth to establish President Kim's major goal of creating the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. Essentially the center will include a new program of studies offering a joint Tuck-TDI masters-level degree, new courses in public health at DMS and plenty of opportunities for undergrads to be involved at all levels, including the practical implementation level as DHMC will be the model hospital for ideas coming out of the center. This was pretty much President Kim's biggest personal goal when coming here. Despite budget cuts, he's gotten it done. Impressive guy.
TheD here.
Youtube here.
Headlines
This seems like an appropriate bit for one of Leno's Headlines pieces. Talk about juxtaposition.
Mixed Bag
Dear AMDAL readers,
I was derelict (my balls) in my posting duties last week because I was out in St. Louis helping my brother move. This is not to say I didn’t have a chance to post – I did, I just chose not to because I was lazy and the whole St. Louis / Post-colonoscopy angle seemed like a pretty good excuse. Anyway, here’s a compilation of some of the things I was going to post about, but didn’t. This may become a recurring feature* as I will be traveling a lot this summer and wont’ be near a computer (or iPad, smartphone, whatever) most of the time.
* Assumes AMDAL doesn’t go out with a whimper before then… [cue ominous (or celebratory) music]
I was derelict (my balls) in my posting duties last week because I was out in St. Louis helping my brother move. This is not to say I didn’t have a chance to post – I did, I just chose not to because I was lazy and the whole St. Louis / Post-colonoscopy angle seemed like a pretty good excuse. Anyway, here’s a compilation of some of the things I was going to post about, but didn’t. This may become a recurring feature* as I will be traveling a lot this summer and wont’ be near a computer (or iPad, smartphone, whatever) most of the time.
* Assumes AMDAL doesn’t go out with a whimper before then… [cue ominous (or celebratory) music]
"Reading" in 3D
Some of you may have seen this on the internets in the last few days, but Playboy magazine, in response to dwindling "readership," is releasing their June issue in 3D--glasses included.
This of course is yet another example of how we, as a society, rely on porn to drive innovation. First it was the Internet, then the preference for Blu-ray over HD-DVD, and now the pervasion of 3D into other realms of our daily lives.
God Bless America.
Friday Night Lights Is Back (On NBC)
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Worlds Collide: Conan at Google":
Friday Night Lights Season 4 started, where are you guys?
Good call Anon. FNL is what AMDAL was founded upon. I actually already saw it thanks to the internets. The original plan was to re-watch again, but after almost 6 months since watching the finale, I'm not sure I can devote that much emotional bandwidth ("The Son"?! oof).
So for all you season 4 n00bs, first, I envy you. Second, here's a great guide to how you should mentally prepare for each episode (spoiler free).
Enjoy you lucky bastards.
Dwight K. Schrute vs. Lil Wayne
So first, an Los Angeles DJ named Clockwork remixed the NBC show theme song along with the song "Hustler Muzik" by Lil Wayne. HypeMachine subsequently blows up in mid-March with the song and because I don't frequent the music blogosphere enough, I missed it. But it's OK, because in mid-April, a guy named Torrey Meeks, who has done some somewhat viral video mashups in the past, cut the remixed song with various clips from The Office, which I found on another music blog in mid-May. So cool stuff gets to me in rural Massachusetts...eventually.
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Dartmouth Pow-Wow
All first-class speeches -and by association AMDAL posts- begin with a quotation from Webster's Dictionary about the meaning of the word in the title of the speech. To use the idiom "in that vein," in that vein, let us think about the etymology of the word Powwow, as today marks the beginning of the 2010 Dartmouth Pow-Wow, a tradition that started here in the 1970s.
The use of the word Powwow, as defined by some online etymology looker-upper, dates back to 1624 and was first used to denote a "priest, sorcerer" in a southern New England Algonquian language. The current usage, including Dartmouth's application of the word here, harks to 1663 and more precisely translates as a magical ceremony among Native American Indians.
The Dartmouth Pow-Wow is special for many reasons. It's one of just six times a year where the College/ town of Hanover formally allow a ceremony on the Green; it attracts nearly 2,000 visitors annually from across the country and represents the second largest celebration of Native American pride/ history/ culture in the Northeast. And it helps to celebrate Dartmouth's age-old connection with and mission of educating this country's native peoples. Sorry Sars, but it probably also stirs up the all-too-frequent Dartmouth Indian debate.
On a personal note, to me the Dartmouth Pow-Wow serves as a fun weekend to witness and experience a part of this country, a niche of our collective culture, we too frequently dismiss and intentionally hide. It also reminds me of my own Native heritage. Apparently when I was three years-old, on a vacation to Wyoming, we visited an Indian museum. Despite typically playing the cowboy rather than the Indian in all my childhood "makebelieve," and despite carrying two silver 6-shooters on my hip, I strode up to a display of a young Indian boy's formal dress and in total seriousness made the case to my mother that in a previous life I had worn that outfit. So here's to our Native heritage, be it legitimate, fake, adopted or educational. Enjoy the Pow-Wow.
Oh, and every time I say Pow-Wow I can't help but think of this:
So much for cultural sensitivity.
Global Warming and other Liberal Propaganda
Here's the "Mexican" (can we blame them?) oil spill as viewed from the International Space Station! Pretty tragic, huh? (anyone know which part is oil and which isn't?)
Jam Of The Week: Lupe Fiasco - "I'm Beaming"
Sometimes I get mad when little kids and special effects are used too much in videos, both for the same reason. Usually it's a cue that the artist is trying to cheat the viewer into liking the video by making them ooh and ahh without a lot of work on their part ("Let the kids run around while I stand in front of a green screen. Easiest. Money. Ever"). And still, I like what Lupe did here. He seemed to have gotten the right proportions of kids, graphics, and low-tech cardboard cutouts. A tough combination but clearly a pleasant side effect form the great recession (still?!) and stricter childhood labor laws (Mom?!).
Hit the jump for a white kid, a wifey with a booty, a shameless plug, an ex-con with an up-and-comer and the heart throb that has won me over.
Friends Who Blog: Swamp Song
Elise H. aka MLR's Younger Ex-Girlfriend ("MYExG") has started a blog of her own. Swamp Song is about stuff she likes (another tofu fan?!), Dartmouth references (because everyone likes inside jokes), the city she lives in (D.C.) and other random awesomeness.
We've already included her in our blogroll to the right. You should add it to your Google Reader / procrastination routine / booing schedule. Ready, go.
Google Chrome vs. Potato Gun
Potato guns, french fries and blazingly fast internet connections. What's not to love?
Tofu for Haters
Like 90210, Kashi cereals and capri pants, tofu is not always appreciated by men. Fear of this soy product usually stems from it’s bad name as a bland white blob or previous experience with poorly prepared versions. While I could eat this stuff any which way, living with a boy forces me to flex a little culinary muscle and spice it up a bit. There’s no need to make the stuff unhealthy. Just make it well and serve it up in 2 styles, his and hers…
Going for 5 BOOs in one day
Anon, this one is for you.
That Future wrote a post last week about Apple and wasn't tarred and feathered, clearly indicates that the AMDAL readership, incluso nuestros lectores hispanoparlantes, are eager for more tech news!
I've previously documented my fear/dislike of Google both in terms of its threatening Apple (here), and in terms of its threatening the world via the Skynet operation (here); but how about this juicy nugget coming out of California today?
Apparently Google is investing $40M in clean energy and wind farms in North Dakota (from Gizmodo). I'm still fearful of the Don't be evil mantra and I still dislike gmail, google.com, and blogger.com, but just like on Earth Day, I'm all for being green.
Apple has done great work conceding to Greenpeace's demands re the environment. The company has risen up from the bottom of the tech world to now lead in green manufacturing and energy efficiency throughout its products' lifecycles. But as they continue construction in North Carolina on one of the world's largest server farms (at a cost of $1B!), it'd be nice to see them p!edging to power it with renewable energy rather than oil collected from animal feathers along the Mexican coast. Google's $40M p!edge isn't a huge sum, but it shows that at least part of that company's proverbial DNA is on the right side. Steve should take note.
In other Green news, as the Hanover steward, I feel obliged to inform the readers that Dartmouth does continue to excel in at least one sport. The Dartmouth baseball team will play for its second consecutive Ivy League Championship next weekend.
LiveBlog: God's Country
74 degrees. Bluebird skies. No wind. Plenty of corn snow. Just another season of skiing in May at Sugarloaf.
Incidentally, check out this accident I saw yesterday on the highway in southern Maine. This truck f!re literally stopped us dead in our tracks for 2.5 hours while the cab MELTED off the truck.
