Halloween

Disco vibes and Rasta-Man vibrations.

My red devil.

You can run, but you can't hide ...

Have you ever seriously asked yourself how racist, misogynistic or homophobic you are? Do you think there might be some incongruence between what you think about yourself and your subconscious beliefs?

Here's a test to answer all those questions: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/
It's brilliantly designed so as more aware you are of your bias and try to correct for it, the more biased you end up being.

I took a few of the tests and here's what I got:

• slight bias towards African Americans vs. European Americans
• slight bias towards men in science vs. women in science
• automatic (strong) bias towards gay couples vs. straight couples
• moderate bias towards Judaism vs. other religions
• automatic bias for other nationalities/religions vs. Arab/Muslim

No references will be made here about someone's roommate's biases ...

LateX

Great way to start with LateX for newbs like me.

http://math.auc.dk/~dethlef/Tips/introduction.html

Morning commute

Even the vertical Flatirons have a thin layer of white powder on them.

Red, white, blue, and the necessary "axis mundi"

The buses are always full when the weather worsens.

first snow

I bet these poor flowers didn't get the weather forecast on time.


Sedona and Kristen. I didn't know that Australian shepherds love snow so much.

Chinese killing Tibetans in "self-defense"

The footage was shot by a Romanian journalist on a mountaneering expedition in the Himalayas.

New blogging friends

Jason and Sarah have lost their blogging virginity. Thanks for making me feel less dorky.

Romanian soccer

It's been a while since I've posted here. A lot of things have happened since, but today's momentous event is that the Romanian soccer team Steaua Bucuresti is playing the infamous Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League. Real Madrid is Beckham, Ronaldo, Canavarro, Raul, Roberto Carlos, Van Nistelrooy, etc... The game is shown by ESPN Deportes and I am going to take an extended lunch break to see it at the Lazy Dog down on Pearl Street at 12:30. This is the first soccer game involving a Romanian team I've watched in a few years.

There is already a rumor on the "internets" that Steaua's owner signed a deal to sell one of the Romanian players to Real Madrid in exchange for the Romanian team losing both of the games. It sounds very ... Romanian already.