Nothing much

It's nice to see the rain. Comforting, like hoodies and bean bags and warm fires and hot drinks while looking out cold quiet windows at the grey.

Can't wait to get down to the mud at the bmx track.

Rant of the day: gnuplot is one of the worst computer languages ever. (This will probably be a recurring theme.)

What I've been listening to today: Keoki, KMFDM, Beefcake, Powerman 5000, Billy Joel, Rev. Horton Heat.

"Hello World"

I've finally been convinced to enter the world of un-self-deprecating fame and notoriety. The first step will be to pretend that someone will be interested in reading what I have to say, the next step will be to find something to say. I suppose I'll probably end up rambling mostly about motorsports, cycling, sports, music, coffee, and life. I'll keep my academic thoughts mostly on my other blog, so as not to bore old-school Celica fans with constrained optimization of graphical model parameter estimates, and to avoid embarassing myself in front of potential academic colleagues by talking about 1UZ-FE sump locations and 80's hair metal bands.

I'll start with this: I hate computers. Why does Blogger refuse to work with Opera? And this: Europe is fun. Yes, the continent, too, though I was talking about the Swedish band responsible for The Final Countdown.