I’ve added new photos!

• More random pictures of my friends.
• Me and Emmi at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Matsuri Festival. Lots of cherry blossoms and turtles!
• I leased my first apartment!

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From the software that came with our Probability & Statistics book:

The second subject in the list is definitely not what I was looking for:

Sure, they must launch an exponential attack to exercise every possible attack vector:

But even after six minutes, nothing had happened:

I’m sitting in a hallway in an engineering building and no one walking by gives even a passing glance to the little dog-like robot that is just looking around.

Both for my own knowledge and that of the internet, I took the time to finely document my sendmail.mc configuration file for use with SMTP AUTH to an external SMTP server. In this configuration, my local users can send mail to the rest of the internet by authenticating with my ISP’s SMTP server and send mail through it.

The following sites were extremely helpful when initially trying to configure this:

• SMTP AUTH in sendmail 8.10-8.13
• Sendmail SMTP AUTH Quick Start
• Using SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS with sendmail
• Sendmail SMTP AUTH Howto
• Setting up SMTP AUTH with sendmail and Cyrus-SASL

You can download my configuration file as it is printed below.
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I kind of want to trade in my 2001 Olds Alero for this:

This is a Reliant Robin, made by a British company which is now defunct, and yes, it only has three wheels. Apparently, there was a version with a Rover (more powerful) engine in it which made installing wheelie bars required. How cool would it be to need wheelie bars on your car?

Admittedly, this decision is mostly because of this:

Where the gents of Top Gear decided to create a reusable space shuttle using a Reliant Robin (because it looked most rocket-like, of course).

Unfortunately, I can’t get one.

…are toward the middle of this FAQ

(This was asked on a boat 2 miles offshore by a guy with his logbook. Here is the exchange that occurred…)
Q: What elevation are we at?

A: Us - “How tall are you?”
Him - ” 6′1″ ”
Us - “OK…then your elevation is 7′4″ ”
Him - “Cool…Thanks!”